Designed by Applied Works, this interactive infographic for the iPad platform was commissioned to accompany a news story on the North/South health divide in England. The different Health Wheels distil 32 different health indicators across 9 geographical regions. The wheels act as visual barometers for the health of each region, in order to provide users with an intuitive way of scanning through all the indicators.
A map of England communicates the national perspective in response to the wheel, with a traffic light colour code identifying which regions score better than, worse than or average compared to the national mean. For the regional view, segments on the wheel are color-coded according to the performance of each indicator.For those infosthetics.com readers lucky enough to have access to both an iPad and The Times app, this infographic lives along a story titled “Major Shift Planned for NHS Treatment”, which is currently featured in the News section. Those readers are also kindly invited to leave a short personal review in the comments section below.
Does this new form of infographics truly exploit iPads unique capabilities?
For all other mortals, including myself, the Times kindly provided a short video demonstration and a Flickr set to demonstrate this fresh incarnation of information graphics on an alternative display medium.
As promised, Nokia and Intel have revealed the pre-alpha version of MeeGo for handsets today, supporting the Intel-powered Aava reference phone and the Nokia N900.
Whats most interesting at this early stage is the UI, which appears to have taken a big Nokia-influenced step away from the Intel-designed MeeGo netbook and tablet UI — and were definitely detecting some hints of Android and webOS here and there. Seriously, just check out that task switching interface. Of course, MeeGo is open-source, so were sure Nokia has some deeper UI customizations in store — like homescreen widgets, which are notably missing here.On a deeper level, this build of MeeGo includes the base MeeGo APIs, including Qt and the MeeGo touch frameworks, the Firefox-based browser, a photo viewer, and some basic UI elements like the status bar, app launcher, and virtual keyboard.
There are pre-built images for the Atom-based Aava handsets available now, but N900 owners will have to do a little building until someone makes an image available. Be warned, though: theres a long enough list of known bugs, and while thats totally fine for pre-alpha code, it might not be too fine for your device. Thats not going to stop us from installing this thing, but you be careful, alright? And let us know how it goes. Video of the UI after the break.P.S. Given that the N8 is destined to be the last Symbian N Series device, we cant help but feel its being overshadowed by MeeGo before its even out. Can we pre-pour one out? Is that a thing? It is now.
In February 2010, the man who built the technology of Minority Report twice — once for the movie, and once in real life — spoke at TED about the future of user interface design.
Yesterday, TED posted John Underkoffler’s entire fifteen-minute video presentation — a copy of which you’ll find right after the break.
Get a curated glimpse into his company’s tech in the following demo, and hear from the man himself when the gloves might come off. And if that doesn’t satisfy your appetite, read an in-depth interview with Underkoffler at our more coverage link.
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