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Showing posts with label amazon developer. Show all posts
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Thursday, February 23, 2012
Response to Ripples
Overview
This paper presented Ripples, a Framework to solve some common usability problems with multi-touch devices. Ripples tries to provide a standard design to provide feedback to user interactions. Further, the paper presented more information about this problem & proposed solution and did some experimentation to show that user’s of the multi-touch devices prefer using it with the Ripples effects.
Pros & Cons
A pro for this type of standardized framework is that user’s will have a familiar set of interaction feedback that they can be accustomed to. A con could be that developer’s might be limited to this standard set of feedback. Also, when a developer tries to make a new innovative idea, the typical user that is familiar with Ripples would suffer some confusion.
Experiment
The human experiment they performed showed that people preferred using Ripples versus not using it. This showed that the system is more pleasurable to use for the participants. The discussion about the experiment didn’t go into to much detail about the non-Ripples system that they were comparing it to. Some developers may be able to implement a feedback system that is more pleasurable to use than Ripples. However, having at least the default Ripples was proved to be better than than feedback or the “other” feedback system that they were comparing it to..
Further Development
There was no mention of any sounds for feedback. A set of sounds that are triggered with different interactions would be appropriate for this feedback. MS Windows, Apple Computer & some Smart Phones/Tablets have a standard set of sounds for interactions with the device. It seems like it would be a good idea to standardize a set of sounds for multi-touch interactions.
Discussion
This paper presented Ripples, a Framework to solve some common usability problems with multi-touch devices. Ripples tries to provide a standard design to provide feedback to user interactions. Further, the paper presented more information about this problem & proposed solution and did some experimentation to show that user’s of the multi-touch devices prefer using it with the Ripples effects.
Pros & Cons
A pro for this type of standardized framework is that user’s will have a familiar set of interaction feedback that they can be accustomed to. A con could be that developer’s might be limited to this standard set of feedback. Also, when a developer tries to make a new innovative idea, the typical user that is familiar with Ripples would suffer some confusion.
Experiment
The human experiment they performed showed that people preferred using Ripples versus not using it. This showed that the system is more pleasurable to use for the participants. The discussion about the experiment didn’t go into to much detail about the non-Ripples system that they were comparing it to. Some developers may be able to implement a feedback system that is more pleasurable to use than Ripples. However, having at least the default Ripples was proved to be better than than feedback or the “other” feedback system that they were comparing it to..
Further Development
There was no mention of any sounds for feedback. A set of sounds that are triggered with different interactions would be appropriate for this feedback. MS Windows, Apple Computer & some Smart Phones/Tablets have a standard set of sounds for interactions with the device. It seems like it would be a good idea to standardize a set of sounds for multi-touch interactions.
Discussion
- Design Principles for Multi-touch systems
- Custom system feedback may be better in some cases than using Ripples
- Sound effect feedback
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Amazon - Developer Resources & Featured Solutions
Developer Resources
Here are a few highlights and new additions to our Developer Resource Center.
Making Secure Requests to Amazon Web Services
Ensuring the integrity of requests to our APIs is of the utmost importance to AWS, as is maintaining your trust and confidence. This article provides detailed information about making secure requests: 1. Always use SSL-protected API endpoints. 2. If you are not using SOAP, use Signature Version 2, a new method for signing requests for Amazon SQS, Amazon SimpleDB, and Amazon EC2. These methods will be required as of September 30, 2009 so we urge you to read this article and migrate your applications as soon as possible.
Security is always a nice feature to have built into a system.
Manager for Amazon CloudFront
A Windows application for uploading files to Amazon S3 and distributing them through Amazon CloudFront.
Easy to use?
Stock Quote Example: Using Amazon SQS for Scale
This article shows how Amazon Simple Queue Service can be used to build a highly reliable, highly scalable application.
Interesting article.
Featured Solutions
Check out what your peers have built with AWS. These solutions include interesting web applications built on top of AWS as well as tools that help you integrate with AWS.
Vembu
Vembu StoreGrid's online backup software now supports AWS. Now you can start an Online Backup Service with your backup server running on Amazon EC2 and using Amazon S3/EBS for storage.
I am assuming this is not fast to access as it is aimed for back-up.
RunMyProcess
RunMyProcess delivers a cutting edge and ergonomic "BPM as a service" platform, enabling rapid SaaS integration and workflow applications design.
Business Process Management as a Service?
Dropbox
Dropbox is a desktop file sharing tool that makes it easy to store, sync, and share files online. Dropbox automatically backs-up files to Amazon S3 and is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
This is nothing new except that it automatically backs up files to Amazon S3.
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