Sketching Methods
Papers
Video SlideShows
- c3demo. Pieces together an interactive video by talking over a slideshow of screen snapshots.
- Varous prototypes This page used to have videos; I will contact the author.
Video Enactments of Ideas
- Twitter in Plain English
- Shadow Reaching - concept by Garth Shoemaker and Tony Tang, UBC
- Shadow Reaching - implemented by Garth Shoemaker and Tony Tang, UBC
- An example illustration of how to use an innovative design of a live notebook i.e., envisions its use rather than just the interface.
Selected Videos from Designing with Moving Images
The videos below point to video sketch prototyping examples posted on the above web site.
- Designing with Moving Images collects various video sketches. Most are based around 'thin fiction' stories showing various scenarios of use. A subset is listed below
- Tip-Toe illlustrates floor buttons used to unlock a door.
- News Media, a news-on-demand service showing three scenarios of use.
- Posthoc WorkNotes, a rich media content management system.
- Our News and Sports
- Sitep uses cutout animation to tell the story.
Selected Videos from Bill Buxton's Sketching User Experience Videos
The videos below mirror various prototyping examples that accompany Buxton's book Sketching User Experience. See that web page for credits, permissions, and disclaimers and this file
- Organizing design materials. While each system can be considered a 'sketch', they are better viewed as ways that designers can handle their materials electronically.
- Portfolio Wall (15MB WMV) illustrates 2 versions of a large format display that lets you view and annotate a portfolio of images in different ways. 1st version is for a presenter to control via touch, 2nd version is for multiple people to control via multiple PDA touchpads.
- Cabinet-Collecting Visual Material (19MB MOV) - A way to collect and managing visual material for designers on a large surface.
- Atelier (12MB WMV) A wall that lets one enter/organize/display digital media using tangible methods
- Chameleon is a system that lets one pan over 3D spaces. These are done as interactive sketches, where parts are simulated.
- Boom Chameleion (19 MB WMV) shows the display attached to a boom.
- Chameleon (7MB WMV) uses position tracking of a small screen
- Tablet Chameleon (7MB MPEG) uses a mouse attached to a tablet to do its spatial tracking.
- Powerpoint Chameleon (.5MB Powerpoint) uses powerpoint and animated gfs to sketch out the concept behind Chamelean - Attach:09-animationstanda.gif is the GIF file used in one of the slides
- Office of the Professional is a very early envisionment of an office of the future.
- Full video (30MB WMV)
- Bifocal Display (9MB WMV) illustrates an early fisheye view paper prototype - a superb interactive sketch
- Two Handed Input shown via simple video sketches
- One Finger moving (WMV)
- Two handed scaling (WMV)
- Two People Communicating through a display
- Video Whiteboard(13 MB MOV) done by video cameras
- Attach:22-clearboardiii.mov (22MB MOV File) is a futuristic video of the concept
- Mug Metaphor Interface
- Sketch version (11MB MOV) of the concept
- Hi Rez version (9MB MOV ) Hi Rez version of the same concept.
- Bill's Instructional videos mirrors methods described in his book
- Postit Video Sketch (7 MB WMV) shows how to make a very simple video sketch
- Assorted others
- Matter Duplicator (1358KB Windows Media Audio/Video file) - a spoof of a photocopier machine, an example of an extremely simple video sketch!
- Shaker MP3 (6 MB WMV) built quickly using Phidgets
- Attach:08-Truck.wmv (.5MB WMV) sketch animation of a truck moving through obstacles
- Graspable Prototype shows a tangible interface prototyped thorough director on a digital desk.
- Position-dependant cursor (2MB WMV)
- 3D Gesture (1.5 MB MOV) on a large screen
- Sketch-A-Mov (12MB MOV ) - prototype of new concept for toy cars. Brilliantly executed.
- Wristwatch Cursor (8MB WMV) sketch of a finger-operated watch.
- Tectronix (2MB WMV) usability study over a paper prototype
- Agenda (11MB MOV) an interative slide show of a prototype; video may be damaged.
- Climate Control (20MB WMV), explanation of screen snapshots of a paper / pictive prototype
- Google Docs in Plain English - a great example of mixing sketches, concepts, use scenarios, and even interface walkthroughs in an engaging video sketch.
- Nokia Morph Concept
Not sure how these were done...
- iPhone Copy and Paste - a mockup of what it might look like to Copy and Paste on iPhone, using the magnifying loupe and a second-finger tap.