{"id":59,"date":"2006-08-29T23:31:29","date_gmt":"2006-08-29T21:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/29\/new-intuitive-ways-to-display-information\/"},"modified":"2009-09-08T13:20:12","modified_gmt":"2009-09-08T11:20:12","slug":"new-intuitive-ways-to-display-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/29\/new-intuitive-ways-to-display-information\/","title":{"rendered":"New intuitive ways to display information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have probably seen this example of a USB stick that swells up when full, and deflates when empty.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/infosthetics.com\/archives\/flashbag.jpg\" alt=\"Inflating USB stick\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smallsurfaces.com\/2006\/07\/is-this-device-full-or-empty\/\">www.smallsurfaces.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Although this is a mockup that apparently has been going around for quite a while, I do think these sort of designs are interesting examples how interaction with technology can be made more intuitive.<\/p>\n<p>This phone made by Samsung is real:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mobilecowboys.nl\/toestellen\/images\/upload\/1156319870Accunivo.jpg\" alt=\"Phone with water level\" \/><br \/>\n?<br \/>\n(source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobilecowboys.nl\/toestellen\/2918\">www.mobilecowboys.nl<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s screen displays a water level that corresponds to the level of &#8216;juice&#8217; left in the battery.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slashphone.com\/70\/5072.html\">www.slashphone.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>NTT DoCoMo in Japan just started selling the N702is 3G cell phone to its subscribers. The phone has a built in motion sensor. When the screen saver is activated, the screen displays glass-like water. The &#8220;water&#8221; moves when you move the phone around. The water level also reflects your current battery status, the lower it reaches, the less power you have.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have probably seen this example of a USB stick that swells up when full, and deflates when empty. (source: www.smallsurfaces.com) Although this is a [&hellip;] <span class=\"read-more-link\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/29\/new-intuitive-ways-to-display-information\/\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[81,157],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","tag-design","tag-mobile-phone"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peQgW-X","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":381,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}