27 Mar 2003
Thu, 27 Mar 2003
Steven Johnson on iPhoto
So tonight I discovered that Steven Johnson has a blog. I have at least one of Steven's books and really dig it. Anyhow, he's written an article that points out the interface innovation in Apple's iPhoto, but the article doesn't really explain where the zoomable UI concept originates. I believe a fair bit of the research (and subsequent implementation) on zoomable UI was done by Ben Bederson's group at the University of Maryland HCI Lab. Check out photomesa. It was really slow when I first looked at it, but the conceptual approach to bringing meaning to large numbers of image objects was certainly novel at the time.
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