With more tablets being announced each day, there’s a lot of pressure on market entrants to stand out. A custom user interface is a great way to do that! The eviGroup Paddle ’s stop-the-ride-I-wanna-get-off Scale UI, less so. See for yourself: The Paddle actually looks like a decent little tablet: 10.1-inch multitouch screen, 1.6GHz Atom N270 processor, up to 320GB of onboard storage, runs Windows 7. Yep, it’s all pretty appealing, until you get the the price— starts at $952—and the Scale UI, which simulates what I imagine car sickness to feel like.

Maybe it’s the lack of a banging soundtrack , but we’re finding ourselves somewhat underwhelmed by these first video appearances by the highly anticipated Symbian^4 user interface. What we’re shown is a now familiar layout for touchscreen devices, with a trio of home screens that can be customized with widgets and live information trinkets such as a clock and a weather app. It is, as promised , very touch-centric, but it is by no means revolutionary. Both videos are titled as mere “first glimpse” offerings, however, so the eternal optimist in us likes to believe that there’ll be plenty more to get excited about as we move closer to that early 2011 launch. See them after the break and let us know what you think

It’s hard to believe this homegrown home screen actually runs as quickly as the video demo (posted up after the break) shows, but even if it’s just 89.877 percent as fast, we have a good idea we’d be interested. TAT Home is a gesture-powered 3D home screen for Android , and it relies heavily on cascading windows and finger flicks in order to improve your navigational efficiency. Clueless as to what we’re referring to? Jump past the break and mash play, and then surf on over to the source link to sign up for the preview program. [Thanks, Jesper] Continue reading TAT Home: the gesture-powered 3D home screen your Android device has longed for TAT Home: the gesture-powered 3D home screen your Android device has longed for originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:40:00 EST.

I’m sorry, Cupertino, but Microsoft has nailed it. Windows Phone 7 feels like an iPhone from the future. The UI has the simplicity and elegance of Apple’s industrial design, while the iPhone’s UI still feels like a colorized Palm Pilot. That doesn’t mean that the Windows Phone 7’s user experience would be better than Apple’s. The two user interface concepts—data-centric vs function-centric—are very different, and the former is quite a radical departure from what people are used to. And if you’re not familiar with Windows Phone 7, check out our hands on and the post where we explain everything about it .

At this particular point, 50-something days away from the earliest iPad deliveries, we doubt too many people are up in arms about the iPad’s ability to act as a jumbo iPhone . On the other hand, if we told you you can take pretty much the entire iPad experience and distill it down to your iPhone OS device, well you’d probably care a lot more, wouldn’t you? To get that extra 3D flavor to your UI, including the fetching iBooks shelf and other iPad-specific touches, you’ll need a jailbroken iPhone or iPod touch, access to the Cydia app store, and the manpower to click past the break for the full instructional video. Come on, you know you want to.

Some people want the Apple Tablet to run Mac OS X’s user interface . Others think its UI will be something exotic. Both camps are wrong: The iPhone started a UI revolution, and the tablet is just step two. Here’s why. If you are talking hardware, you can speculate about many different features

A Firefox developer has posted a handful of mockups of Firefox 4 ’s user interface redesign along with some explanations of this shiny new App Button we’re getting. Everything just looks oh-so-gorgeous and simplified right next to that old 3.5 design. The main focus of this new design is the App Button, a space-saving touch which will feel familiar to Windows 7 users. In essence, it “provides a unified location for menu items” and cuts down on all the toolbar clutter. You can check out Horlander’s site for plenty of details about the design and explanations behind some of the new elements, but before you go, tell me: Do you prefer this App Button sort of element? Or do you prefer the plain ol’ menus we’re used to

Oh you people are never happy. I give you a way to try the new Google Search yesterday, and now you are asking about how to go back to the old one. Fine! Be that way! Here’s how: Yesterday’s method only set a cookie in your browser, asking Google to serve a different page layout to you. However, this will affect other Google pages in the wrong way. Googlepedia, for example, renders a very narrow search results page

Confirmed. The rumors about Google’s redesign are true, and you can try it for yourself with a very simple method. 1. Go to Google.com. 2.

The rumors published last week may be true after all: Google is testing a new search interface on random people, as these screenshots from Gizmodo reader Matt Karolian confirm. Like the Google Wave-inspired interface for Gmail, the new user interface is cleaner and bolder than the current version, offering more options to the user. It may still be far from deployment, however, but it’s good to see some changes after so many years of same all same all.