Swurl is interesting, for its calendar view of user posts:
http://gravity7.swurl.com/timeline
Even more cool is dipity, which uses a horizontal timeline: http://www.dipity.com/gravity7
(also check the flipbook mode; both are cool-looking but add little
in terms of utility)
Swurl's timeline is nice, but still very much in the paper calendar
mode (kind of retro blog these days even).
I suppose I'm thinking of the pure action>reaction>interaction of
interactivity and interaction design when I think about trying to
think beyond the page. It's often a case of moving beyond thinking of
the screen (or browser window) as a framed space where things can be
placed and more thinking of it as a window on a space where things can
happen and that window can move over the space (as we're now seeing
with things like the iPhone UI).
That's where, for example, Exposé was so interesting when it came out.
It totally broke the metaphor of the desktop, but didn't interrupt the
flow of working. In fact it enhanced it because it tapped into an
metaphor of intention (analogous, I think, to peeking into a pile of
papers and pulling the one you want out) as well as a wish for a magic
desktop that spreads all its wares out and then neatly piles them back
again. That more abstract or lateral usage of metaphor can be really
powerful and is why I suspect that Bumptop is an awful idea: http://www.bumptop.com
as a UI or OS. It's so literal it suffers from the same problem of a
real, physical desktop, which seems to defeat the purpose. (I haven't
used it yet though, maybe it feels great).
Best,
Andy
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