UPDATE : 05/30/07
Microsoft announces “Microsoft Surface” - read more here.

If its new to you then its new right? That seems to sum up multi-touch devices today. Since the recent unavailing of the iPhone it almost feels like Apple invented a new form of interaction - but far from it. The road had been paved with massive amounts of R&D for many years now.

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“BumpTop aims to enrich the desktop metaphor with expressive, lightweight techniques found in the real world.”

I think it’s great, but while I’m wishing I could code my own version like the pros, this guy has a more humorous take on it. Seriously though, who coded this fine piece of AS?

Learn Morse Code in one minute!

Ok, so someone could make this look a LOT better but it does get the point across. So unambiguously in fact that I believe either the chart is off or the legend - a period is not “DIT, DAH, DIT, DAH, DIT, DAH” when this chart clearly shows “DAH, DAH, DAH, DIT”! Come to think of it, there are many more ways in which this diagram is missing.

Research via the web - the value of experience
I can’t say it’s all perfect, but chances are I’ve received most of my info from blogs/boards/forums. I bought a few books here and there, but nothing beats proven experience. Here are a few sites that made me jump on the blog-wagon

• Josh Spear
• Brand Spanking New
• Andre Michelle
• Quasimondo
• Reflektions
• Createage
• Processing
• Infosthetics
• Gizmodo
• Trends

The Art of Complex Problem Solving includes 6 diagrams illustrating various steps; kinds of problems, seeing the system, filling the vacuum, visual modeling, the problem-solving system, and process

You’ll want to wait for all the images to load, since each page is shown as an image from javascript rollovers.