Touch screens have changed the way people use mobile phones dramatically. But gesture controls, augmented reality and larger screen sizes are about to change habits even more, according to mobile ...

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It wasn't just cost and Moore's law. The graphical user interface -- now known as the GUI ("gooey") -- is what really made computing widespread, personal and ubiquitous. Its friendly icons and ...

Mozilla's mobile user experience designer, Ian Barlow, revealed some mockups earlier this month of a new Firefox interface intended for tablet devices. The design features a touch-centric layout and ...

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Shortly after the iPhone 4S went on sale this fall, its marquee feature, the Siri voice assistant, sparked a heated debate in the tech world: Was Siri a great computing interface, or was it the ...

Microsoft certainly made a big splash with the early preview of Windows 8 it offered this week, and it’s easy to see why: the new platform looks to be a surprisingly radical departure from the ...

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It is easy to forget just how rapidly the mobile landscape has evolved. Consider that just twelve short years ago, the Motorola Razr was released. With a 0.3-megapixel camera, a 176×220 screen, and ...

Having been a user of laptop computers for more than 10 years now, I continue to be astonished at the lack of progress that has been made in making my life easier. We’ve recently seen major ...

The use of gestures and movement to control mobile phones has already started to take off and will change users' habits even more than touch screens, expert says Touch screens have changed the way ...