Re:Desktop Neo – rethinking the desktop interface for produc...
by hckr1292 on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @01:17PM
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Soooo sad. I want this now!
Re:Desktop Neo – rethinking the desktop interface for produc...
by 893helios on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @01:22PM
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Argh! What's the point of developing of fully fleshed out work piece like this that doesn't and won't exist! Well other than self-promotion and a fear of it actually totally sucking after it hits the real world of people.
Re:Desktop Neo – rethinking the desktop interface for produc...
by __jal on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @02:07PM
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Bruce Sterling has a phrase for this: "design fiction".
Design fiction tends to be some combination of portfolio piece/job application, argument about the direction of whatever is being designed (here, desktop-ish UI/UX), wish fulfillment, conversation piece, and sometime social critique.
Re:Desktop Neo – rethinking the desktop interface for produc...
by protomyth on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @02:18PM
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Well, since the person who did this is looking for an internship, the point is self-promotion and, I would guess, to flesh out the idea. Someone else might take the ball a bit farther and from there it might become real.
Neo was designed to inspire and provoke discussions about the future of productive computing. It is not going to be a real working operating system interface, it is just a concept. I am not saying that these ideas would definitely work and that this is the future of computing. However, there is large potential in rethinking the core interfaces of desktop computing for modern needs, and somebody has to try."