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OLPC 2.0 is All Touchscreen
Even though One Laptop Per Child seems to be having some serious business and political issues, apparently it hasn’t stopped them from thinking about future products. Dubbed XO-2, it is scheduled to...
View ArticleLooking for Interactive Gesture Images
I’m in the middle of filling out the interactive gesture patterns of the book, and I need photos of examples of some of these patterns. Do you have any or know of any? Tap to Select. When you select...
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The Death of the Mouse
Bruce “Tog” Tognazzini predicts the death of the mouse in a recent Financial Times article. The replacement? Why our fingers of course. “In many ways, our continued reliance on the computer mouse...
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Publication Date
It looks like the book will be on shelves starting November 26, 2008. I’m currently reviewing the pre-publication pages and it looks great. I can’t wait for you (and me) to have it in our hands....
View ArticleDGI Goes to Printer Today
The book is finished and is headed to the printer today. In honor of that, I’m posting the new chapter 1 and the prologue (776k pdf) for download. Those of you who’ve downloaded an earlier version of...
View ArticleReview and Evaluation Copies
Designing Gestural Interfaces will be in bookstores December 3, 2008. If you are a reviewer or an academic who needs an evaluation copy, please contact me at dan at odannyboy dot com with your name,...
View ArticleTouchscreen Hand Gestures Stencils
Over on the Kicker Studio blog, I’ve posted some touchscreen hand gestures suitable for documentation. If you find drawing hands a pain, these could help.
View ArticleDGI Book Club
Jonathan Brill is leading an online book club to read Designing Gestural Interfaces together in chunks. An interesting idea I’ll be watching (and perhaps chiming in on!). The first section is pretty...
View ArticleErrata: The Early History of Touchscreens and Simon
Bill Buxton, who’s been working with interactive gestures for decades now, offered some corrections to the text of the book, around the history section in chapter one: On the history of touch screens,...
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