Life & Research Notes

Indeed, that’s my home. Makes me nostalgic. Thanks Mariko.

The past couple weeks I’ve had a few nice paper prototyping sessions. It’s fun to create little modular UI components and then rearrange them, almost like a game.

I’m drawing inspiration from a couple nice references people have shown me. Jess pointed me to this Vimeo design (which I would include here, except it’s all rights reserved). It’s a really nice, clean style, and I know I like Vimeo’s feel, so I’ve been looking through this whole series.

And then I really like the mock interaction approach in this one (via Deeplinking):

We’re now making some screencasts of clickthroughs on top of the paper. Hopefully we’ll get a few up online soon. They’re a lot rougher/messier than these, but watching the mouse click and interact with the paper UI is really satisfying. It’s a fast process to create this stuff, and users pretty much get it right away, so it seems like a nice way to get feedback quickly.

Well I’m happy that my Saturday is all figured out. Castro Theatre’s Midnites for Maniacs is running the “Animals Attacking Humans” fest this Saturday. The lineup:

3pm - Phase IV (1974)
5pm - Alligator (1980)
7:20pm - Jaws (1975)
9:50pm - Days of the Animals (1977)
11:59pm - Piranha 2: The Spawning (1981)

$10 for all 5 films. It’s a no-brainer.