Future Finder, Vision, Sketch, Demo...

This is an interactive sketch for a large scale visualization of all the contents of your hard drive. This is a ZUI -- a zoomable user interface.
This is just a speculation -- what do you think the visualisation might show next?

Join in the research - which top 5 of the following words would you use to describe Future Finder?

Busy, Distracting, Hard to Use, Organized, Time-Saving,
Calm, Dull, , Helpful, Overbearing, Too Technical,
Clean, Easy to use ,High quality, Overwhelming ,Trustworthy,
Clear, Effective, Impersonal Patronizing, Unapproachable,
Collaborative, Efficient, Impressive, Personal, Unattractive,
Comfortable ,Effortless, Incomprehensible, Poor quality ,Uncontrollable,
Compatible ,Empowering, Inconsistent ,Powerful Unconventional,
Compelling, Energetic, Ineffective, Predictable Understandable,
Complex, Engaging , Innovative, Professional ,Undesirable,
Comprehensive, Entertaining, Inspiring, Relevant, Unpredictable,
Confident, Enthusiastic, Integrated, Reliable, Unrefined,
Confusing, Essential ,Intimidating, Responsive, Usable,
Connected, Exceptional, Intuitive, Rigid, Useful,
Consistent, Exciting, Inviting, Satisfying ,Valuable,
Controllable ,Expected Irrelevant Secure,
Convenient, Familiar Low Maintenance ,Simplistic,

put them in the comments. !

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• HCI
• Interaction
• design
• ZUI
• NUI
• visualisation
• information
• new
• future
• file
• documents
• GUI
• ex
• File (tool)
• Graphical User Interface
• Technology

[sheepDalton]

Mine are

Intuitive,

Impressive,

Convenient,

Clean,

Unconventional

[femistofel]

Nice one. Some comments: there is a lot of grey space between things, I guess that's so that you can fit text in when zooming in? Have you considered packing things more tightly - like honeycomb or sunflower seeds pattern? May be with most recent files in the middle of the spiral or in the size order (and colors representing the age like you're doing it).

I found Gnome's Baobab handy for this sort exploring my computer, and it's round visualisation looks nice too. Have you seen it?

[rebeccamoreau2]

This is very cool - my responses are ( intuitively )

Enthusiastic,

Easy to use,

Connected,

Intuitive,

Useful

may be Impressive too - well done.