BumpTop

BumpTop

BumpTop, a new interface for manipulating documents on your computer desktop. While some of the interactions here are cool and novel, I’ve got to wonder how useable this would be in practice (especially given that the documents have no accompanying title). A really interesting aspect of computer interaction design is the inherent advantage of previously learned interactions – replacing folders is hard partly because folders are such a well-understood metaphor.

update: PeterMe had the same reaction, except that he expressed it much more eloquently than I did and offers some interesting links to other UI experiments – including the very cool zooming interface.