Comments on: Windows carousel interface concept

By: Rick Cain

Rick Cain — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:02:18 +0000

A good idea for an MP3 player display, not a PC.

By: Insomniac

Insomniac — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:53:54 +0000

I think people are getting it confused with the Pie menu system. You can see demos of that in the Microsoft CIW Prototype Demos – UXE. And on the “desk of the future” that they had a good demo of.

By: I work there

I work there — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 05:35:54 +0000

gads that’s old

By: steveballmer

steveballmer — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 05:01:32 +0000

I like this! I will definitely insist that it be in Windows 7!

By: stooovie

stooovie — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 23:26:20 +0000

What`s the use of carousel UIs? There is too much time wasted by spinning the carousel. Or, by selecting subcategories. I guess it may be useful for media center-like stuff, but nothing else. Anyone care to prove that wrong?

By: fiji

fiji — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 15:46:55 +0000

It will probably be organized into categories. For Example email might have Windows Mail, Yahoo Mail and links to the online sites of them in them and the Games category might be filled with thousand’s of different games (depending on how much you have

It seems pretty cool but with most cool stuff when will it be out or even will it be out

By: Anthony

Anthony — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 11:29:32 +0000

How will carousel work if there are hundreds of icons on display? Mac’s dock solved this by the magnifying effect although the concept breaks down when you have hundreds of tiny icons to go through.

By: quikboy

quikboy — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 22:54:46 +0000

I always thought CoverFlow was just a fanicer zoom up of a carousel view. I’ve also thought that Microsoft would use a carousel view for a UI someday. I guess I was right.

By: tino

tino — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 22:52:53 +0000

Hmmm, a carousel interface seems to be the holy grail these days. Is this presentation available online?

They have spent so much time in creating hundreds of different styles and on the other hand they couldn’t manage to create one complete icon set for their most important product…

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