Desktop UI Design

Bumptop was a project initiated from University of Toronto’s master student’s Anand Agarawala MS thesis a couple years ago.
http://bumptop.com/

from this application, there are some ideas that is good for next general UI
1. pop up list from sequent list to circular list.
2. gesture will bring good experience.
3. 3D or reall world behavior.

3D effect technick on Web browser

Today, beside Canvas 3D JS Library(C3DL) technology, Google announce their own 3D technic called O3D, using O3D API developer can easily creates 3D objects on any kind of browser.
The following URL is the related references.

C3DL: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/HTML/Canvas
O3D offical web site: http://code.google.com/intl/zh-TW/apis/o3d/
O3D news: http://droger.pixnet.net/blog/post/23710192