Comments on: tileUI Desktop demo video

by: Kiran

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 08:09:53 +0000

Hi Doug,
It’s really a cool effect, especially the mouse movement detection, collision.

Can you guide me out to get the logic for mouse movement? When you drag the image in the tileui, depending upon the velocity of the mouse pointer, the image stops with good easing effect. How this can be implemented? I need to implement this Action scirpt 2.0. Maybe in future, I will migrate to AS 3.0/Flex. Please send me the link, if you have any.

Thank You.

Regards,
Kiran

by: Doug McCune » Blog Archive » Simple Flex Motion Detection example

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 05:12:46 +0000

[…] Someone emailed me recently asking about this code, since it was shown in a previous video I created when I was working on TileUI a while back. This is the first in a series of chunks of code that I’m thinking about taking from that project and releasing open source. No, I don’t think I’ll be releasing all of TileUI, but just some of the components within it (like the radial menu component maybe). […]

by: Quicksilver + UIDesktop = Death of Menus? « Tim Bauer’s Running Thoughts

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:50:47 +0000

[…] Another interesting UI concept shown by Nicholas was creating (1) showing noun/verb as a circle with the verbs like petals off the core of noun and then (2) allowing the user to drill into petals (verbs) which then created a new noun/verb layer over the existing one. What was interesting about this is that is allows users to keep a much more visual context in place of where they came from and the ability to roll back in the layers of noun-verb very quickly. Far better than todays model of breadcrumb hierarchy representations (think Vista’s file explorer model). I have also seen a similar UI concept on Doug McCune’s excellent Flex UI model called “Tile UIDesktop”. About 45 seconds into his 3 minute demo of that he starts showing how his implementation of ‘petal’ actions around a selected object on his UIdestop (the ‘noun’) works. Really gives you a sense of the smooth interaction of the noun/verb concept in a petal format could work. The true efficiency in his is around the fact that when you right click (I assume that is the event) to expose the available petals (verb) for the selected object (noun) it presents itself right where your mouse is. Classic Mac design … no extra mouse movements. Just a slitght flick of your mouse, click, and go. Very nice. […]

by: momoc_a » [好像是苹果的程序与WINDOWS无缘]迷人的桌面管理tileUI Desktop Demo

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 08:23:52 +0000

[…] Doug mccune 编写的一个AIR程序，是用来管理文档的，就像整理你办公桌上的文档一样！！现在只有录像，不过这个东西实在是太酷了。 […]

by: Neo

Tue, 04 Sep 2007 09:20:07 +0000

在哪里可以下到试用呢@@

by: James

Fri, 27 Jul 2007 11:01:22 +0000

Doug,

Viejo, que es lo que estas fumando, dimelo !!!

Doug, cool, what grass are you smoking,

is great,

Best,

James

by: [love]tileUI Desktop

Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:21:02 +0000

[…] tileUI是Doug mccune 编写的一个AIR程序，管理桌面文档，操作模式非常酷，看录像。 […]

by: Hector

Tue, 24 Jul 2007 23:30:51 +0000

Wow, seriously impressive …
My vote for Air Developer Derby 1st prize !!!

by: ethan estes

Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:52:59 +0000

Doug, that is really an amazing piece of work. Inspirational, elegant, and bonus points for being on a mac. Great work on extending the original project/concept.

by: Maz

Tue, 24 Jul 2007 09:24:20 +0000

Waoh, seriously impressive ! That + M$’s Surface and you revolutionize the desktop. Not sure if it could replace the whole file system explorer / directory, but for the desktop it would be simply great !

One question tough : Why did you choose AIR (not only for AIR Derby ? oh maybe… ) ?
This kind of application needs close interaction with OS and AIR just won’t provide that (things as simple as launching the files — did you manage to hack sthg ?)

hats off