Strake ?

I have to admit, Microsoft is really onto something here with their Surface sequel. Looks fantastic.

The History of GUI Visual Design - How many of these OS screenshots do you remember? My walk down memory lane took me to dorm rooms, apartments, college computer lab jobs, and several post-college jobs. And Mac OS 10.0 isn’t nearly as good looking as you might remember.

iPhoto ‘11 search UI (via @PhilippAntoni)

Is Realistic UI Design Realistic?

A look at how CINEMA 4D and After Effects were used to create the awesome interfaces in Iron Man 2.

capo7:

Future of Turntablism: DJ touch screen interface with gesture interaction. This is a concept from Greg Kaufman which he made for his senior degree project for the Kansas City Art Institute.

(Source: illusion.scene360.com)

I’m a bit of a Rdio junkie these days [1], and I enjoy following Rdio designer Adam Polselli’s work on Dribbble. Yesterday he posted some cool concepts for an update to the search UI and the above is a rebound I made on his idea.

[1] If you used to rock a mullet, you might enjoy my Ultimate Hair Band Rockathon Rdio playlist. If you still rock a mullet, I have no idea what you might enjoy.

FAILicious. (via @mattverso)

Kicking myself for never thinking of this. Brilliant form design by Sean McBride.

swearch.me is a nicely designed mobile search app. The input box stays fixed while you swipe side to side to choose different sites.

New Twitter ♥s The Golden Ratio

Advanced Photoshop Techniques for UI - 37+ minutes of tips and tricks from Edward Sanchez

Maybe I missed the memo on this, but I just accidentally discovered that if you right-click on a message in Gmail, you get a little popup “card” showing the first several lines of the email. There are links for navigating through the thread and you can archive and delete from here as well. I sort of wish they left unread messages flagged as unread (though I can see the reasoning for not doing so), but there’s a “Mark as unread” button that’s convenient enough.

Update: Ok, feeling dumb now. This is apparently the “Message Sneak Peek” feature in Labs that I must have enabled a long time ago.

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Multitouch MIDI controller run on a double-sided multitouch screen.

Want!

Great writeup from Mike Rohde on his experience designing Pear Note 2.0.