The Interface of Kai Krause’s Software
Matthias Müller-Prove, Seminar: Innovative Benutzungsschnittstellen, 1998/99, University of Hamburg

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Related Pages

• What are the meta guys doing today? Check out MetaTools, MetaCreations, Meta...?
• Kai's Power Tips and Tricks for Adobe Photoshop
• Design ist die Entschuldigung für fehlende Ergonomie: Was haben eigentlich Ergonomie und Design mit Software zu tun? Hansjürgen Paul, 1998
• Kai's Power Controls, collection of widgets used in Kai's applications by Gerd Waloszek, SAP Design Guild, 1997
• MacFormat UK magazine Issue 77 (Spring 1999), a 4-page article titled MetaWorld, (excerpts)

Incoming Links

• Interaktionsdesign, University of Uppsala
• Human-Computer Interaction resources by Dirk Richter
• Arnie’s Graphics Links
• Links zu Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion von Jürg Roost, Zürcher Hichschule Winterthur
• Dokumentation Digitale Medien II; Seminar Kommunikationsgestaltung an der HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd
• History of Photoshop (in Greek)
• persistent info: CSS/DOM based Draggable Magnifiers, May 2004
• Design Crux: Design, Usability, Desirability, What’s The Difference? by John Soellner
• PEAJ
• John Mark Smeenk's Project 2 Website: Kai Krause
• INTERFACE ./ Bump Top™ 3d Desktop Prototype
• JD on EP: Software History
• A surprisingly un-awful interface, How To Spot A Psychopath, May 2009
• User Interface Conservatism versus Liberalism, TidBITS, Jan 2011
• What is the history of drop shadows? Quora 2011

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Meta-History

1.1

CV

1.2

The Company

2

The Software

2.1

Maximize the Interface

2.1.1

Full Screen Mode

2.1.2

Rooms

2.2

Minimize the Interface

2.3

The Desktop

3

Kai’s Interface Language

3.1

Unfolding functionality

3.2

MouseOver

3.3

MouseDragging instead of Value-Slider

3.4

Memory Dots / Five Favorites

3.5

Transparency & Shadows (KPT Lens f/x, Poser)

3.6

Full Screen Mode, Rooms Metaphor

3.7

Workspace – Desktop

3.8

MetaWindow

4

References