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Code Bubbles - A very interesting coding UX


You never know where you are going to see something really interesting. I was passed this URL today: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsPX0nElJ0k. You can read more about this research here. It never ceases to amaze - the level of creativity and ingenuity that exists in technology. Based on this guy's CV, he has worked a few internships at Microsoft. If Microsoft is smart, they will him a job asap! The idea of being able to break a class apart into multiple "bubbles" is interesting. What really intrigued me was that not only is there a big WOW factor in the UI's, usability was clearly a core design principle. I was wondering how debugging worked. No sooner did that thought cross my mind, and just like that, the demo turned to how breakpoints can be set for debugging.

 

Definitely cool stuff!!

 

 

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Posted Mar 11 2010, 09:08 PM by John V. Petersen
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Brad wrote re: Code Bubbles - A very interesting coding UX
on 03-11-2010 11:11 PM

Watch it with closed captions turned on, it's hilarious!

Mihai Lazar wrote re: Code Bubbles - A very interesting coding UX
on 03-12-2010 2:08 AM

I was looking at the same thing yesterday. It's definitely very cool !!

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Frank Quednau wrote re: Code Bubbles - A very interesting coding UX
on 03-12-2010 3:36 AM

A most excellent find! It does address problems I do have with my classic Visual Studio 2008 + Resharper, namely keeping several code parts in context, and, most simply and most awesomely, being able to store and retrieve such contexts. Due to its way to arrange stuff a bit similar to mind maps it could actually be a great way to code, working better with the brain. Imagine you can arrange Tests and the relevant code together. Also for creating new classes / interfaces one could think of whole new paradigms, like tearing off code into a new bubble, meaning I'm making a new class out of it, stuff like that.

I can imagine Microsoft or others would feel it's a high risk move to drastically change its IDE UI, but somehow I'd love to try that out. Thing is I haven't touched JAVA for literally ages, but this might be just worth it. You can sign up for some beta testing...

That should be possible with WPF, shouldn't it? ;)

Silviu wrote re: Code Bubbles - A very interesting coding UX
on 03-12-2010 7:58 AM

This is just amazing. Brilliant thing

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