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Inwindow Outdoor is a revolutionary company, leading innovation in digital signage. Known for taking over entire storefronts to create immersive, interactive branded experiences, Inwindow Outdoor is looking to innovate on next generation digital signage hardware.

Their vision was to create a platform that ties together all the cutting edge technology found in consumer electronics. The result is a new kind of device – a device dedicated to delivering incredible branded experiences in a public setting.

To execute on their vision and ensure the product designs could be realized without compromise, Inwindow Outdoor choose YOUi Labs and their NUI (Natural User Interface) platform to power the Experience Station. The platform was built from the ground up to address the requirements of today’s next generation, natural user interfaces supporting all modern inputs such as multi-touch, motion gesture capture and voice commands.

The YOUi Labs NUI platform and integrated Adobe After Effects workflow enabled a collaborative UX development environment that bridged the gap between designer and developer and significantly reduced time to market.

The Experience Station combines stunning industrial design with a 70 inch multi-touch screen, Microsoft’s Kinect hardware, NFC hardware, Intel’s Audience Impression Metrics Suite and Intel’s newest, most powerful processors.

This project employed a truly unique approach for the combined use of multi-touch and touch-less gestures in a completely public setting. Currently a pilot project, the Experience Station is a glimpse at the future of advertising where immersive, personalized experiences will be everywhere.

Techcrunch product video review

OTTAWA, Nov. 15, 2011 – Adobe announced last week that it will no longer adapt Flash Player for mobile devices to new browser, OS version or device configurations. In response, YOUi Labs, developer and marketer of Natural User Interface (NUI) technology and services, today announced that, in its view, Adobe After Effects will replace Flash as the NUI-creating tool of choice when paired with the uSwish user interface framework.

Implementing UI design without compromise has long been a challenge for application developers. The final product that goes to market is rarely as the designer envisioned it. Trying to communicate the subtleties of a designer’s vision – through gestures, animation and three-dimensional moving parts – is a significant challenge for UI developers because they’ve traditionally been limited by the abilities of the application-development platform. Flash provided an acceptable development environment, but applications built in this environment fell down on execution because the supporting platform was unable to perform.

Adobe After Effects is an industry-standard application designed for animation and compositing for motion graphics and visual effects. YOUi Labs’ UI framework uSwish brings next-generation 2D and 3D experience to consumer devices. uSwish reduces time to market and provides competitive advantage to consumer electronics and cellular phone companies. When paired with the uSwish UI framework, After Effects becomes the ideal environment for designing an NUI. Designers can work without constraints, confident that every aspect will make its way into the final product. The gap between designer and developer is finally bridged.

“The ability for designs to go from concept in Adobe After Effects directly into a mobile UI is a game changer for our customers and design partners,” said Jason Flick, CEO of YOUi Labs. “We believe we are the only UI platform capable of this integration as a result of our team re-thinking the entire approach to NUIs and how they are architected.”

The pairing of After Effects and uSwish allows designers to get the result they want. After Effects avoids inaccuracies and trial and error during implementation, ultimately reducing project costs.
For more information on UI design without compromise using uSwish and After Effects, view YOUi Labs demo on YouTube or view the presentation recently given at UXCamp Ottawa by YOUi Labs’ VP of research and development, Andrew Emmons.

Adobe After Effects UI design and development presentation

About YOUi Labs
At YOUi Labs, our focus is on offering services and next-generation technology that enable consumer electronics manufacturers to differentiate themselves. The YOUi Labs platform provides industry-leading graphics performance while significantly reducing time to market. We bring together the experience and people from leading gaming, GUI development, and mobile service companies who have led in their space for over seven years. Together, there are over 500 million devices running software developed by our team. For more information, visit www.youilabs.com

Andrew Emmons, YOUi Labs’ VP – Engineering, will be discussing Implementing UI Design without Compromise. This talk will highlight some of the key challenges in communicating a natural user interface or NUI to developers.  NUI’s are not defined by button color, size or placement but rather by the feel of the interaction.  Today, a key media for defining a NUIs is video. Adobe After Effects is a great tool to create such videos to specify the exact movement of user interfaces through transitions and animation.   We will explore using not only the final video but the actual information used by Adobe to remove the development guess work to recreate the exact look and feel envisioned by the designer.

Jason Flick, CEO of YOUi Labs, says “building a compelling UI in this post iphone era is very challenging and we are happy to share our successes and lessons learned.”

If you are a User Experience (UX) Practitioner, Designer, Entrepreneur or a Specialist in a related field, this is the place to be to learn and share with the ultimate goal of creating better products and user experiences for everyone.

Update:  For those of you who were unable to attend the event, here is the link to Andrew’s presentation, which was very well received.

http://prezi.com/5cpj-eheexan/implementing-ui-design-without-compromise/

OTTAWA, Canada –– YOUi Labs, developer and marketer of Natural User Interface (NUI) technology and services, today announced a collaboration with CSR, makers of digital entertainment and imaging products. YOUi Labs has become a COACH digital camera processor Preferred Software Vendor.

The YOUi Labs and CSR collaboration will give digital camera makers using COACH processors an affordable way to create the rich and compelling user interfaces demanded by the growing consumer digital camera market.

The YOUi Labs uSwish User Interface framework will be integrated with the advanced graphic capabilities of the COACH processor, allowing camera manufactures to offer dynamic user interfaces for their digital video camera products while getting products to market faster.

“Modern consumers expect all devices to swish, bounce and slide their images and menus in real time,” said Jason Flick, CEO of YOUi Labs inc. “The new measure of a successful UI is how natural and intuitive it feels. Of course, natural and intuitive UIs are achieved with great design and even better graphical performance.”

“With YOUi Labs we can help our customers differentiate their camera products with high-performance, dynamic UIs,” said Alex Schneidman, Technical Marketing Manager, CSR camera product line . “In a competitive marketplace, a positive user experience is critical to the success of any device. Digital camera developers that incorporate dynamic UIs using the uSwish User Interface framework will be able to quickly and cost-effectively bring a competitive offering to market.”

About YOUi Labs

At YOUi Labs, our focus is on offering services and next-generation technology that enable consumer electronics manufacturers to differentiate themselves. The YOUi Labs platform provides industry-leading graphics performance while significantly reducing time to market. We bring together the experience and people from leading gaming, GUI development, and mobile service companies who have led in their space for over seven years. Together, there are over 500 million devices running software developed by our team. For more information, visit www.youilabs.com

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OTTAWA, Canada (Sept 8th, 2011) YOUi Labs announces a revolutionary patented text input technology that brings texting to the next level – SKP, drops the vowels and saves you time.

SKP lets you SKiP typing vowels and reduces keystrokes by up to 30%. No vowels also means less keys to display which results in a larger, easier to use keyboard providing razor sharp precision.

SKP, the ultimate urban keyboard has an expanded dictionary which includes all current txt lingo and geek speak. SKP either speeds up typing the txt lingo such as ‘brb’ and ‘thnq’ or configure SKP to autocomplete to the full length English equivalent of ‘be right back’ and ‘thank you’; you choose.

“SKP is fun and addictive. Once you start, you will never want to waste time typing vowels again.”said Jason Flick, CEO of YOUi Labs. “We feel SKP is ideal for devices with constrained screen sizes where having fewer and larger characters will dramatically reduce input errors. Combined with our intuitive keyboard layouts and patent pending consonant-based word search algorithms, this technology will change the way you type on mobile devices.”

For more information please contact Info@youilabs.com

About YOUi Labs
At YOUi Labs (www.youilabs.com), our focus is on offering services and next-generation technology that enable smartphone and personal electronics manufacturers to differentiate themselves. The YOUi Labs platform provides industry-leading graphics performance while significantly reducing time to market. We bring together the experience and people from leading gaming, GUI development, and mobile service companies who have led in their space for over seven years. Together, there are over 500 million devices running software developed by our team.

OTTAWA, Canada (August 31st, 2011) –YOUi Labs, developer and marketer of gesture-based, Natural User Interface (NUI) technology and services, announced today that they added support for HP’s WebOS platform utilizing the HP webOS Plug-in Development Kit (PDK).

HP webOS is a powerful and extensible embedded operating system. The HP webOS Plug-in Development Kit (PDF) provided a great foundation to port our Natural User Interface platform stated Andrew Emmons, Vice President of Development. “YOUi Labs’ Natural UI platform is ideal for HP webOS device makers offering natural UI features such as dynamic physics effects, rich animations and stunning transitions with incredible graphical performance.

uSwish 3.0 will add full support for HP webOS to an already long list of supported operating systems including Google Android, Linux, Windows Mobile, QNX Neutrino and a host of Real-Time operating systems.

“Now device makers using uSwish can differentiate their device by creating a unique, branded user experience while leveraging the power of the HP webOS application development environment.” Said Jason Flick, CEO YOUi Labs

About YOUi Labs
At YOUi Labs (www.youilabs.com), our focus is on offering services and next-generation technology that enable smartphone and personal electronics manufacturers to differentiate themselves. The YOUi Labs platform provides industry-leading graphics performance while significantly reducing time to market. We bring together the experience and people from leading gaming, GUI development, and mobile service companies who have led in their space for over seven years. Together, there are over 500 million devices running software developed by our team.

uSwish UI Framework enables device manufactures to quickly differentiate their Android based devices while embracing the Android development ecosystem.

“We maximize the device hardware capabilities to make the most efficient use of what’s available whether it’s an ARM only core or complete with OpenGLes, OpenVG or OpenCL.” said Jason Flick, CEO of YOUi Labs

**note**
This product demonstration is available on the following platforms:
Google Nexus S
TI OMAP 4 Blaze
Atmel SAM9G45
Freescale i.MX53
Samsung hummingbird
Qualcomm Snapdragon

“With the speed of our isGPU and the power of our uSwish platform we see an entirely new generation of digital cameras coming to market in 2012 that will be as fun to use as your smartphone.”  said  Jason Flick, CEO of YOUiLabs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX4qVbuU1eQ

Presenting at Canadas Best in Taiwan

In front of dozens of Taiwanese companies YOUi Labs presented its next generation UI platform.  This was the kick off event to over 2 dozen meetings with the leading ODM, OEM, and OBM’s at the show.

One of our challenges was running out of business cards on day two of our 7 day Asia trip, which also included 2 full days in Japan.  Thank you to the Canadian consulate for helping us print out more cards the next day!

Later in the week we presented the “Era of the intimate UI” with our partner Teknision to well over 300 VIP’s at the main conference building.