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An interface is a tool for managing a system. The earliest interfaces consisted of a green flashing cursor on the screen, where the user was expected to enter a suitable command.

Fast-for­ward to the present, we have graph­i­cal inter­faces that allow us to scroll, zoom, swipe and inter­act with the sys­tem via easy fin­ger­tip movements.

In the future? No one knows, but a lot of peo­ple seem to think that voice is the next big step. It might very well be so, but the world is not con­vinced just yet…

But, no mat­ter how good look­ing and how clever the tech­ni­cal solu­tions you can build today are the basic prin­ci­ple remains: to allow the user to per­form their tasks with the least pos­si­ble resis­tance. Whether that is to find the open­ing hours for a store or decide where a con­tain­er of cloth­ing should be placed.

We have cre­at­ed inter­faces and icons for com­plex sys­tems with hun­dreds of icons, such as

  • Log­i­ca’s por­tals Rain­dance and Cus­tomer accounts,
  • designed inter­face for Sony­Er­ic­sson’s in-store touch­screen kiosks cam­paigns, and
  • built a sys­tem that allows Kap­pAhl to opti­mize its con­tain­er han­dling at the load center.
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Inter­face Design for the Web

Today, there is a com­plete­ly dif­fer­ent require­ment for a web-based inter­face com­pared to just a few years ago. Nowa­days, the web is used on phones and tablets just as often as on tra­di­tion­al com­put­ers. We have been build­ing web inter­faces since the Stone Age of the Web, and have been work­ing with touch screens ever since they first appeared on the market.

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Touch­screen Inter­face Design

Touch­screens got their big break with the launch of the iPhone and sim­i­lar smart­phones, although the tech­nol­o­gy itself is con­sid­er­ably old­er. There are many dif­fer­ent types of screens and tech­nolo­gies behind them, and all have their advan­tages and dis­ad­van­tages when it comes to view­ing angle, bright­ness and how to inter­act with them.

Case Study: Design of Touch­screen Inter­face for Fire Trucks

Autokaross in Flo­by builds cus­tomized res­cue vehi­cles equipped with the lat­est tech­nol­o­gy. Vehi­cles used by sat­is­fied cus­tomers through­out the Nordic region. Repub­lic, togeth­er with elec­tron­ics experts Mar­tins­son Elek­tron­ik, has devel­oped a mod­ern con­trol pan­el with touch­screen tech­nol­o­gy to con­trol things in a fire truck such as pump motor, water sup­ply, extra light­ing, etc.

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