Projects/Plasma/RecommendedReading

Recommended reading

Plasma explores new ideas in user interface design, to allow users to interact with all aspects of their digital lives in an intuitive and enabling manner.

Such a design goal is quite different from what used to drive open source development for graphical user interfaces. To cope with the new requirements of such a bold endeavour this little list of recommended reading can hopefully act as support to the aspiring plasmodian.

• The Humane Interface

This is an excellent book by Jef Raskin on user interface design. Among other things he describes a zooming user interface, similar to what will appear in Plasma.

• Away with Applications: The Death of the Desktop

This is actually Jef's son. Very interesting video.

• Quicksilver: Universal Access and Action

Quicksilver's author talking about Quicksilver. But if you listen closely, you can also hear him talk about krunners future between the lines.

• UI Breakthrough-Command Line Interfaces

Don Norman talking about the return of the CLI. Again very interesting to understand the potential role of krunner in plasma.

• The desktop I'd like to see

Andy Oram is talking about why applications are slowing the user down and how componentization can come to the rescue.

• Software we’d like to see, part six million: the Swamp

Thomas Thurman is reporting about a discussion our friends over at planet gnome had. Some first ideas to abstract our user interfaces away from the file system.

• Interface design and the iPhone

A review by Edward Tufte of certain aspects of the iphone interface. How many occurrences of an ZUI can you spot?

• Bumptop

A couple of very interesting ideas for interacting with your desktop. Some ideas might even be interesting for plasmoids.

• Siftables at MIT

Look ma! Plasmoids you can actually touch!

• Workscape

No comment.

• The Plasma mailing-list

I'll be there.

--Michaelrudolph 23:53, 20 February 2008 (CET)