Zooming User Interface or Zoomable User Interface (ZUI, pronounced Zoo-ee) is a graphical environment where users can change the scale of the viewed area in to see more detail or less. A ZUI is a type of graphical user interface (GUI). Information elements appear directly on an infinite virtual desktop (usually created using vector graphics), instead of in windows. Users can pan across the virtual surface in two dimensions and zoom into objects of interest. For example, as you zoom into a text object it may be represented as a small dot, then a thumbnail of a page of text, then a full-sized page and finally a magnified view of the page.

ZUIs

Desktop

Mobile

Piccolo is a layer built on top of a lower level graphics API. There are currently three versions of the toolkit: Piccolo.Java, Piccolo.NET and PocketPiccolo.NET

http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/piccolo

Presentation

Deepfish is an experimental browsing software system for mobile devices that uses a zooming user interface, being developed at Microsoft Live labs

http://labs.live.com/deepfish/

http://www.zoomorama.com/

B

• PositLog

http://labs.live.com/Seadragon.aspx

C

• 2goto

• Advogato

A

• Zoomorama

• Zebrapeople
• Schematic’s website
• WhiteVoid
• MediaCatalyst
• Bradburne
• Memorabilia hardrock
• DeepZoom