This is the first bug fix release for Version 5.7 and it takes some polish to various corners of IntuiFace. This includes putting a shine on the new Scroll collection. For all the line items, check out the release notes.

Probably our last feature release before the jump to Version 6.0. We've managed to pack in quite a bit of new - and pretty cool - capability

• Scroll Collection: A movable canvas perfect for creating parallax effects, webpage-like visuals and more. It's the microwave of IntuiFace: you didn't know how much you needed it until you tried it.
• Toggle Button sets: Enhancement of the Toggle Button control, automatically permitting one and only one Toggle Button within a set of buttons to be checked. Yes, show-off, it's like a radio button.
• Speech Recognition: (Windows only) Use the spoken word to either capture information or act as a trigger for one or more actions. Supports 26 different languages. "IntuiFace, make me dinner!"
• Google Analytics Connector: Automatically load data points collected by the data tracking feature of IntuiFace into any one or more of your Google Analytics properties.

Plus lots of additional, small usability enhancements and fixes you may not notice but will subconsciously love.

Addresses a short list of bugs but takes this opportunity to add a small feature and, maybe more interesting, a set of mini-games. Heard about gamification? Not a pretty word but its import can be quite valuable. We talk about gamification here. For details about this release, see the release notes.

(Supersedes v.5.6.1 and v.5.6.2) Corrects all the speed bumps found since the launch of Version 5.6.0. Don't waste any time getting it on your devices. Details are in the release notes.

A feature release emphasizing the creative needs of designers.

• Transparent video support: Play videos containing an alpha channel - i.e. transparent videos. Specific formats are required; see here for guidelines. Or did we make those guidelines transparent……
• Transparent experience backgrounds: Show third party apps running behind IntuiFace and even enable users to interact with both IntuiFace and third party apps at the same time. Also referred to as a transparent Player, you're not going to believe your eyes.
• New "Fill behavior" property: Permits greater control over how images, videos, webcam feeds and image buttons are displayed within their container. Options include fit, fill and deform.
• Animated GIF support: Animated GIFs (with or without transparency) are hip again and IntuiFace is as cool as can be so they make a great pair. Show your favorite animated GIFs in IntuiFace.

Lots of additional improvements and bug fixes. We've even sped up Composer and increased the free storage we provide for experiences you want to share or deploy. For all the details, see our release notes.

Mainly a bug fix release but there was one big change. We have swapped the Open Street Map provider used for our Map collection from MapQuest to MapBox. For an explanation of why we made this change - and for details about all the improvements in this release - see our Release Notes.

Bug fix release with a small feature upgrade as sweetener. All details can be found in our Release Notes.

A 'you asked for it' feature update!

• Use the new Move to front and Send to back actions to change the visual stacking of items on-screen. Call it 'z order' to impress your friends.
  
• Enhanced Hide and Show actions can apply the opposite effect to all other items in the same layer or same Group/Pinboard collection
• Webcam asset permits camera selection (if more than one is available) and resolution (320x240, 640x480 or best available for the webcam)
• Ability to disable the next and previous swipe gestures of the Flip Chart collection. The old method was to yell "Darn!" and swipe back to the original item.
• Improved organization of the Triggers and Actions panel - as well as of the binding panel - should make it a lot easier for all of you who don't read manuals to figure out how to work with triggers, actions and binding.
• 8 additional, minor usability enhancements
• Lots of bug fixes. Not that we have bugs. We don't. But if we did, we fixed them.

You can find details about everything above and lots more by reading the Release Notes.

Our first update/patch release since shipping Version 5.4. Took a month but we finally identified a few things that needed fixing. The details are here. Meanwhile, we're already hard at work on our next feature release. Stay tuned....

Design for accessibility, because 1 in 7 people worldwide possess some kind of disability

• Text-to-speech: Generate speech for both static and dynamic text. (Windows only) You should check it out; you’re a bit of a mumbler.
• Keyboard triggers: Key presses can act as triggers for any IntuiFace actions. For example, use arrow keys for navigation. The keyboard is no longer just a pretty face.
• Gestures for static assets: Any onscreen gesture initiated on a static asset can act as a trigger for any IntuiFace actions. Don’t overdo it or it’ll look like you’re massaging the screen.

Support for beacons using the iBeacon™ and Eddystone™ protocols. Why care? It means your experiences can know what is brought near them; you can then do something about it.

• Application notification (i.e. beacon detection): Capture unique ID of any beacon brought near a running experience and use that ID to trigger specific actions, show specific data, etc. This is very cool stuff.
• Proximity detection: Like application notification but trigger occurs only if the beacon is moved a specified distance from the running experience. For example, show information for items lifted away from a shelf. Freak out your guests!
• URL broadcast: Running IntuiFace experiences act like Eddystone-URL beacons, broadcasting URLs for user-selected items. These URLs can be picked up by any mobile device supporting Eddystone-URL - e.g. Android tablets. Broadcasting is available on Windows only. Sorry other platforms!

New value converters for binding. However, still no way to turn lead into gold….

• Is Equal To: Compares two values and returns true or false. Found in the list of Math & Logic binding converters. It’s nice to get a black-and-white answer once in a while.
• URL Shortener: Converts any URL into a 16 character URL. Very useful for the URL broadcast feature mentioned above. They’re also cute.

Plus many smaller enhancements and a bunch of bug fixes. All details can be found in our user friendly Release Notes.

Web Browser asset no longer causes a crash when JavaScript-enabled buttons are clicked. Description is here.

Our next bug fix release. We're dealing with a few edge cases so a big thank you to our users who are finding and reporting this stuff. Details here.

Corrects a few bugs; adds a couple of small enhancements as well. Details are in the Release Notes.

Completely revised Web Browser asset

• Supports all of HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and WebGL.
• Faster and more reliable than our previous rendering engine.

IntuiFace Cloud Storage

• Free, no-configuration cloud storage option for published experiences.
• Use it to simplify sharing and deployment of your work.

YouTube asset

• Dedicated asset for playing YouTube videos.
• Even includes 360 degree videos on Windows.

Alignment magnetism

• Automated snap-to-alignment feature - aka magnetism
• Greatly simplifies item alignment in your designs.

To see a complete list of enhancements, head on over to our Release Notes.

A stability release correcting a few crash conditions. Threw in a few small enhancements as well. Release notes are here.

A sprinking of bug fixes and minor enhancements. Details can be found here.

Greater in-scene editing capability

• Directly resize width of items inside collections and data templates using a mouse.
• Resize Group collection frame without resizing contained items.
• Nested collections can be individually selected for in-scene editing.

Enhanced Excel support

• Edit Excel-based workbook data in real-time and without breaking preexisting data templates.
• Create Excel interface assets on the fly by drag-and-dropping workbooks into Composer.
• Reduced bandwidth and storage needs for remotely deployed experiences.
  
• Specify, for each Player, whether it should automatically launch the last run experience when Player itself is manually or automatically started.
• More than 20 additional usability and performance enhancements.
• And yes, lots of bug fixes and eliminated crash conditions. See Release Notesfor additional detail about everything.

A bug fix release with a couple small enhancements thrown in for flavor. For the nuts and bolts, see our Release Notes.

Data Tracking

• Define, collect and send data from your interactive IntuiFace experiences to any platform for analytics, marketing or data warehousing.  
• Includes support for 150+ analytics/marketing/data warehouse platforms, automatic event detection, offline data point storage and much more

Easy Share

• A new frictionless method for sharing experiences with colleagues and clients. No need for your users to create an IntuiFace account. No need for manual license entry. Just give them a URL.

Other Improvements

• Access to all font variants in the Simple Text and Rich Text assets.
• Triggers for RFID/NFC readers now expose the captured tag ID, making it available as a parameter for binding.
• Composer Edit Mode performance and capability improvement.
• Webcam asset is now available on Android.
• Brand new Composer and Player splash screen. (Can you find the easter egg?)
• 10+ additional, small usability enhancements to make life even easier.
• A bunch of bug fixes. You'll find all the details in our Release Notes.

Last maintenance release before our next big launch. Contains a few bug fixes, including correction of some annoying experience publishing issues. Bonus feature: improved support for emailing via SMTP server. Release Notes are here.

More bug squashing, plus a sprinkling of new capability. In particular, it corrects a problem affecting some of our interface assets like RSS and System Info. Details are here.

A new round of bug fixes for Version 5.1. It combines a mix of common and edge case issues that have been corrected. As always, see our Release Notes for details.

Corrects a few crash conditions uncovered by advanced users pushing the limits of the new, high performance collections algorithm implemented in Version 5.1. You can see all of our Release Notes here.

Performance improvements on Windows

• Scene-to-scene transition animation is more fluid.
• Animation in general is more fluid.
• Rendering of off-screen content in collections happens more quickly and smoothly.
• Excel filtering is almost instantaneous

Usability enhancements for the Composer workspace

• Quick Properties pop-up for all items in a scene enables easy access to properties, triggers and editing controls.
• Ability to independently size all panels while in Edit Mode.
• Overall improvement in Composer performance

Licensing updates

• New Player for Tablets: Use a Tablet license on either the iPad or an off-the-shelf Android tablet. Sold in packs of 10
• New Player for Kiosks: Use a Kiosk license on the Samsung SMART Signage Platform (SSP) or a custom Android device.

Player improvements

• Drawing tools are now available on iPad, Android and Samsung SSP.
• Multiple additional enhancements and bug fixes in Player for Kiosks and Player for Tablets, listed here.

More than 500 new design accelerators inspired by our work 7 Interactive Experience Design Trends.

• Buttons
• Email forms
• Vintage-themed banner and object images

Several smaller tweaks and a bunch of bug fixes. Complete details can be found in the Release Notes here.

Yessir, more stability improvements. Plus we've adjusted our Video asset to accommodate changes made by the VLC folks. Release notes are here.

Another quality release, focused on rare but annoying issues in Composer. Details are here.

A few minor improvements and bug fixes. Summer fitness in action! Details are in the Release Notes here.

Second round of tweaks plus enhancements to Content Library and IntuiPad. Thanks to our users for finding these issues! Release Notes are here.

A quality-focused update, it corrects a few minor bugs and some edge-case crash conditions. Release notes are here.

Composer workspace improvements

• New, refreshed graphic style for Composer
• Undock and distribute panels across multi-screen setup
• Introduction of rulers, ruler guides and gridlines to aid alignment of design elements
• Much much more

HTML5-based Player upgrade for iPad, Android and Samsung SSP

• New gaming-influenced architecture significantly speeds graphic rendering and touch reaction times
• Increased stability virtually eliminates resource-related crashes, with particular improvement on iPad*

Conditional triggers

• Add a set of constraints to limit triggers to specified scenarios

Improves to use of Excel as datasource

• Filter action has now a 'Clear all active filters' option
• Filter values can now be case insensitive 
• Drag-and-drop of an Excel file onto the active scene or Content Library now creates an Excel IA rather than a pdf document

Localized Keyboard

• 30+ localized keyboards are now supported, including Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Russian, Thai, etc.
• Keyboard can default to local language of the device on which Composer/Player is running or be specified in advance
• Onscreen location and orientation of the keyboard can be controlled both at design time and via actions

HTML5 Player now available in Composer as alternative for Play Mode

• Test tablet/Samsung SSP-targeted experiences on Windows

**System Info** interface asset

• Returns information about the device running Composer or Player

Combine multiple data feeds in a single collection

• Access the live data feed from multiple interface assets and combine them into a single visual

Publish and Share improvements

REST Web services can be used to delete analytics (useful when using 3rd party data mining tools with IntuiFace)

New default templates (i.e. visual representations) of multiple DAs

• Menus
• Simple Counter
• Clock, Chronometer, Countdown
• Linear Gauge

30+ crash conditions eliminated and bugs corrected.

For complete details, check out our Release Notes.