The 3D Desktop
I’m not one to immediately jump on the cool-web-demo bandwagon, but the folks over at the DGP of UToronto have come up with a pretty interesting (*cough* Apple-like *cough*) design for interacting with a desktop.
It’s eye-candy with a purpose for the most part. The most meaningful interactions would be the size-increase and tack-up for important documents. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve scanned through the desktop icons looking for a scan of my tax-form or my application pdf and been frustrated when I group deleted it. But, uh, you might want to rename “Drag’N'Cross”. It sounds like a bad Powerball Z move or something.
Finally, how about a trash/recycle bin widget? Crumple something up and throw it into the bin. If you want to look for something in the bin, either go grab the top item, or dump out the bin and scatter-sort. Now that would be sweet.
And don’t miss the hilarious “hip-hop” video. Wacky.
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