The “Piler” app demo that I created in 2007-2008
This video is just a simple demo that I created to demonstrate a UI metaphor for a multitouch project I worked on a while ago. The intent of the app was to let users sort and arrange a stack of items using a real-world metaphor such a rock, push-pin, and so forth. In my demo, the categories of items in turn would then be collected into a CSV that you could insert into excel and analyze. You can see it all work in the video.
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You can read the full patent, plus a few legal passes, on Patentdocs: Techniques for organizing information on a computing device using movable objects
Neat little app. Were you able to incorporate anything from this into something that made it to market?
We used the app you see in the demo to solicit user feedback at conferences. As for integration into future products, I can’t say whether or not it has or will be used.