The Endless Column streams up through the silent air of the studio.
As the column streamed through downtown Budapest past shocked, bemused and horrified Hungarians, one shopper wept silently, mascara streaming down her face, as children struggled by.
The new Google Plus design, launching today at Google I / O, illustrates that principle quite strongly, given that its core interface is built entirely around cards, refreshingly breaking with the single-column stream design that has conquered every other social network: posts are presented as cards in a vast, unending grid, framed by ample space on either side.
The new Google Plus design, launching today at Google I / O, illustrates that principle quite strongly, given that its core interface is built entirely around cards, refreshingly breaking with the single-column stream design that has conquered every other social network: posts are presented as cards in a vast, unending grid, framed by ample space on either side.
A two-column stream of posts and tweets is displayed on the homepage, and you can click through to open up the corresponding website to read the content.
The columns stream virtual imagery on all four sides of its displays raining down light or falling leaves, cascading bubbles floating towards the ceiling, or images of a couple dancing and the effect of seeing the same image repeated on all those surfaces, as well as reflected on the floor, creates a disorienting, hall of mirrors kind of feeling.
But just on the outskirts of town, thousands of people were hitting the road in endless columns, streaming back to the villages where fighting had raged just a few days ago.
While blogging, by 2006, had popularized reverse-chronological flows of content, and hardcore users had tapped the power of RSS, the makeup of the online lives of the masses had not yet been molded into a series of single-column streams — Twitter, Instagram, Foursquare, Tumblr, and Vine didn't exist then.
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet While blogging, by 2006, had popularized reverse-chronological flows of content, and hardcore users had tapped the power of RSS, the makeup of the online lives of the masses had not yet been molded into a series of single-column streams — Twitter, Instagram, Foursquare, Tumblr, and Vine didn't exist then.
A generalized approach for the conceptual design of complex distillation columns including multiple-feed/side stream columns and columns with side sections is presented.
