Don't Fear the Interface

Web designers are wielding the coolest new tools for the greater good

"...Joel on Software, he offered an entry titled "User Interface Design for Programmers" (www.joelonsoftware.com/uibook/fog0000000249.html):..."

March 3, 2006 Screens Feature by Kate X Messer

Human Machine Interface Is the Problem

"...it's not the human ... it's the human machine interface usability that is completely flawed. These guys need help,..."

Nov. 1, 2004 Postmarks

Dingo

"...the narrative's logic is disrupted due to the fiction-reality interface involving the larger-than-life persona of Miles Davis in such..."

May 22, 1992 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

"textscape: Susan Scafati and Sean Ripple"

Using text interface as a visual environment, this show is messy and clean, consistent and surprising, philosophical and entertaining

"...Scafati and Sean Ripple's "textscape" treats the ubiquitous text interface as a visual environment. The intangible is made tangible,..."

Feb. 24, 2017 Arts Review by Sam Anderson-Ramos

Connective Issue

Web 2.0, online gaming, but everything's in-between

"...out what's really good?On the future face of Web interface:..."

March 2, 2007 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

The Wild, Wired West

CD-ROMs Make Virtual History

"...navigate and its content is fascinating and well-written. The interface does a serviceable job of bringing to life battle..."

Nov. 10, 1995 Screens Feature

Out With the Old ...

Upgrades, Updates and New Toys for Your PC

"...I need it? SCSI, short for small computer systems interface, is a way to connect up to 15 devices..."

Aug. 14, 1998 Screens Feature by John Avignone

No Stone Untenured

ACTLab Director and Visionary Sandy Stone

"...students what it means to be liquid, performative, and interfaced. The practical act of becoming and being the cyborg..."

May 15, 1998 Screens Feature by Jon Lebkowsky

Psychographical Communities

Internet Radio: Sounds Heard 'Round the World

"...their equivalent of BMI/ASCAP), the gang at Pirate Radio's InterFace offshoot are free to play whatever they damn well..."

Dec. 19, 1997 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Be It Flood or Fire, Austin Is Preparing for Disasters to Come

Austin residents must be prepared for hell or high water

"...of these are located in what's called the wildland-urban interface, or WUI (pronounced "woo-ee"), which is just what it..."

May 27, 2022 News Feature by Lina Fisher

Austinites Without Homes Find Themselves Pushed Out of Sight

Turns out those with and without shelter both want to be safe

"...allow a lot of density in these WUI [wildland-urban interface] areas, we are condemning a lot of people to..."

Nov. 8, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

72 Hours (or So) of Ridesharing

With Uber and Lyft still boycotting Austin, we take the competition for a drive

"...(I'm aware of the irony.) Fasten's bright and clean interface is similar to Uber and Lyft's. Needing to reach..."

June 24, 2016 News Feature by Kahron Spearman

How Safe Is Your E-Vote?

Proponents of electronic voting promise no repeat of Florida in 2000, but critics say it could be even worse

"...for the disabled, I think it's a very nice interface, that sort of wheellike thing."..."

Feb. 20, 2004 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Current File-Sharing Services

"...most popular service, mainly because of its "for dummies" interface. Like most current services, however, it's frustrating due to..."

Jan. 31, 2003 Music Feature by Michael Chamy

Santosh

A newbie cop in India navigates a corrupt system and a murder investigation

"...writer/director Sandhya Suri has shifted her attention from the interface of British and Indian culture that was the focus..."

Jan. 31, 2025 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Blue Beetle

Latest DCEU flick can't cram the Chicane experience into superhero duds

"...are full of confusing bluster, and the Beetle suit interface is filmed almost exactly like Tony Stark’s POV shots..."

Aug. 18, 2023 Movie Review by Alejandra Martinez

CODA

Bawdy, touching and exhilarating fishing family drama takes a different look at deafness

"...one who is not deaf, making her both their interface with the hearing world and an outsider in her..."

Aug. 20, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

hellsite.austin.gov

Everything needs to be online now. Austin is a world-renowned tech capital. Why can’t the city get it right?

"...vending. Clicking it shows one immediately how the Alpha interface differs from the existing page...."

June 11, 2021 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

In the Earth

Ben Wheatley's unexpected eco-horror is sinister and hilarious

"...life. Nonsense, argues Olivia (Squires), who sees a biological interface that almost creates a brain beneath the surface, a..."

April 16, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

This Is Not a Movie

Veteran foreign correspondent Robert Fisk embodies the importance of honest journalism

"...notably for The Independent and most especially on the interface between the Western and Muslim worlds, Fisk is one..."

Oct. 16, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Will Austin's New Wildfire Code Be Enough?

"The risk is bad"

"...homes most in danger are those in the wildland-urban interface (WUI), because, as the CoreLogic research puts it, "Just..."

Oct. 18, 2019 News Feature by Lindsay Stafford Mader

Booze Delivery Apps at Your Fingertips

Get lit without changing out of your pajamas

"...Overview: Minibar's interface is streamlined and intuitive to use, but some of..."

Aug. 5, 2016 Food Feature by Spencer Beghtol

Disconnect

This mawkish, preachy picture about technophobia has already dated itself.

"...trusty penis pump. We see him through the chat-room interface, and this is interesting – there’s a sidebar on..."

April 26, 2013 Movie Review by Leah Churner

To Serve Man

Briggo: an Austin company at the crossroads of taste, technology, and social interaction

"...order coffee on the spot via the same user interface displayed on the website and the phone app.) Orders..."

Jan. 20, 2012 Food Feature by MM Pack

Some (Re)Assembly Required

From mapping to extrapolating, recontextualizing the data we've been given

"...the organizer of the SXSW Interactive panel Time Traveling: Interfaces for Geotemporal Visualization. Rabinowitz credits two reasons for his..."

March 4, 2011 Screens Feature by Wells Dunbar

In Play

The PlayStation Move makes a play for the Wiimote's fan base

"...for PlayStation without mentioning the groundbreaking innovation in game-player interface that is the Wii Remote. Whatever faults you may..."

Oct. 1, 2010 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

We Were Promised Jet Packs (and a Whole Lot More)

When will technology catch up to the movies?

"...will narrow their focus to how the sexy data interfaces pictured in movies inspire their real-life counterparts and vice..."

March 6, 2009 Screens Feature by Josh Duty

'The Magic Flute'

Mozart's opera gets a techno remix at UT's Butler Opera Center

"...string quartet and two players on Musical Instrument Digital Interface keyboards. UT School of Music professor Russell Pinkston, an..."

Sept. 14, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

TV Eye

Margin Material

"...(for Open TV) is creating a new way to interface with TV that will make the existing TV remote..."

March 23, 2007 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

When There's Motion, but No Pictures

Guest Artistic Director Ed Halter adjusts Cinematexas' experimental aim

"...this device on your head, and there's no visual interface; you have to find your way around this space..."

Sept. 15, 2006 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

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