02 August 2009
Man makes Flash OS UI prototype as master thesis
A fellow in University of Art and Design, in Helsinki has created new user interface prototype as his master thesis. It’s made with Flash and what’s more, you even get to play with it.
It has quite distinctive OS X taste and smell on it as it’s clearly Apple inspired. It’s hard to make any conclusions about the prototype since it’s basically an oversimplified version of something that could be an OS user interface, but I think the “row of windows” idea might work, at least in netbooks. Desktop systems would probably have more problems with it, since the amount of running software, and their status, is much more complex. One of the biggest problems that I see with it from the get-go is that Stripes doesn’t have any clear way of handling notifications on the go, or how does the system work with applications which need multiple windows, like Live Messenger or Skype?
Anyways. Head on, past the break to see an introductory video (in glorious HD), the prototype can be found from here
