Science Fiction Interfaces (2017)

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by tlrobinson • 8 years ago

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itronitron• 8 years ago

beautiful UIs but good luck teaching someone how to use any of those, maybe fictional users are much more sophisticated?

Udik• 8 years ago

Apparently in the future an epidemic has killed off all UX designers. The result is that the UIs present all the information and actions in a single glance, and are 10x more powerful than the ones we're accustomed to.

p2t2p• 8 years ago

Nah, I’d look at the UI in this movie about starship and aliens stuck in South Africa (don’t remember the name, sorry), you’ll see that the guy in the end has to go through bunch of swipes and dig deep into nested UI in order to manage the ship.

newsbinator3• 8 years ago

I wonder if that's what someone from the 1980s would say about iOS 12. We consider it intuitive for toddlers to pick up, and even advanced actions (4 finger swipe) and hidden widgets (pull down to refresh) are quick to master.

Maybe these UIs pre-suppose childhood familiarity.

simonh2• 8 years ago

Multitouch hasn’t been commonly available for long enough. The vast majority of current users learned to do so as adults.

But anyway I don’t see how toddlers learning to use them quickly argues for childhood familiarity helping. Children don’t have a previous childhood to get familiarity from. If they find them easy to use, it’s because they are.

masonic• 8 years ago

Original submit from 17 months ago, 130+ points:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14272795

newsbinator3• 8 years ago

The first time this was submitted was 2015.

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=sciencefictioninterfa...

But I don't mind, personally.

xtiansimon• 8 years ago

The image quality on this site is impressive.

kuwze• 8 years ago

If you like stuff like this I recommend searching "FUI" on Pinterest[0]. It gives you some great ideas, and people have already created awesome boards[1].

[0] https://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=fui

[1] https://www.pinterest.com/akupunkturgurke/fui/

Science Fiction Interfaces (2017)

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