IUAV Interaction Design Thesis Projects » Software tools

FontUp! daily training through play

Claudia_DeAngelis — Mon, 03 May 2010 09:26:53 +0000

The number of available fonts grow continously: memorizing, recognizing and identifying them is difficult. Inspired by the Brain Training video games developed by Nintendo, FontUp is a new way to learn, an alternative method to be used in parallel with books. It uses play as a tool for memorizing complex forms using an intuitive visual approach based on comparison. [More]

Tondo: Multitouch table for clincal audits

Valeria_Donati — Mon, 03 May 2010 08:40:59 +0000

Every year a huge number of medical mistakes injure and kill hospital patients. In many cases these errors are preventable. It is important to make the medical system safer and to increase the quality of the patient’s life during hospitalization. One of the most useful methods to analyze and prevent incidents reoccuring is the clinical audit, a meeting organized by a facilitator, who is a physician responsible for clinical risk. [More]

Wallstation: A web application to support designing

Benito_Condemi — Tue, 19 May 2009 09:46:11 +0000

WallStation is a web application for virtual teams which aims to solve some of the problems of today’s internet applications. Current applications typically end up as lists of files, very different from the whiteboards that many designers, working together in one place, use for keeping track of a project. WallStation takes the metaphor of the pinboard, allowing representations of pictures and documents to be grouped visually. [More]

Typographr: a font-finding tool

Margherita Urbani — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:10:02 +0000

Typographr is an innovative computer application that allows designers to search for fonts in a much more intuitive way. Search results are laid out on a cartesian plane, with axes that can be defined according to parameters appropriate for the project in hand. The application allows you to hide fonts you know you don’t want and to focus in on directions that can emerge as you search. [More]