Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Making the connection: An interview with Nick Mee, Director, Virtual Image (09 Feb 2005) The clever bit, though, is that the visual interface is based on the London Underground map, so that the topics are presented as stations along a particular line. Along the red line, for example, which the key tells us is about 'spatial visions', stations (or topics) include 'The Sun', 'Camera Obscura' and 'Curved Space'. Just like the real tube map, some stations have more than one line, so from 'Curved space' you can connect to topics along the black 'Higher Dimensions' line. The choice of the tube map is particularly apposite, says Nick, because "it's a great example of the influence of science on art and design." Originally designed by Harry Beck, and inspired by electrical circuit diagrams, the map, says Nick, "is topological rather than metrical - it's the connections between stations that matter rather than the distance between them." Article URL: http://www.nestafuturelab.org/viewpoint/art41.htm Read 122 more articles from NESTA Futurelab sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Media: Portals Revisited at Tangentium     This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy