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Archive for December, 2009

iSlate, interactivity and the era of intimate interfaces

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009 at 10:36 pm   - Posted by Shivesh Vishwanathan

Bonnier R&D came up with the following great concept for an e-Magazine Reader that offers great colors, animations, user interface and reading experience.

Mag+ from Bonnier on Vimeo.

We at Harbinger are passionate about interactivity and user experience, and have built great user experiences like flip-book on desktop, web and iPhone. The advent of a new breed of devices with touch-screen, accelerometer, GPS etc. opens up great opportunities for software product vendors to create wonderful user experiences. After all, we humans have a fascination with intimate interfaces on flat surfaces to do our work on – think of the amount of time we spend on papers, boards, desks and pads. The computer just had it coming!

So, 2010 is touted to be the year of what is variously named as tablets, slates or pads, and Apple is rumored to be announcing an ‘iSlate‘ this January. Do you think 2010 will be the year when the computer finally starts going flat?

 

Comparing Adobe Flex and JavaScript for RIA development

Friday, December 25th, 2009 at 11:58 pm   - Posted by Webmaster

Compare Adobe Felx and Javascript RIA Development

We released a white paper comparing Adobe Flex and JavaScript. Both are leading technologies available today for creating rich internet applications (RIA). In this paper, we compare these from the standpoint of their compatibility with existing technologies, UI capability, feature richness, performance and development support.