Re:Delightful Animations
by blattimwind on Saturday December 15, 2018 @04:00PM
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> Seems like a very strong statement. I'm pretty happy that 'rm foo' doesn't say anything, and typically I find motion a distraction.
Terminals are usually animated. Some new line is output => everything shifts upwards.
I stopped at that first sentence/false premise.
Re:Delightful Animations
by halfastack on Saturday December 15, 2018 @01:05PM
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> I'm pretty happy that 'rm foo' doesn't say anything, and typically I find motion a distraction.
It has happened to me on several occasions that I accidentally ran "rm -rf /some/dir/owned/by/root" without root permissions and got so much "permission denied" text it made me literally nauseated. There's something about a quickly moving wall of text on my terminal that makes me sick when there's a ton of it (4-5s of moving text tends to be when I have to look away).
Quite an annoying to have I must say :/.
Re:Delightful Animations
by ricardobeat on Saturday December 15, 2018 @03:37PM
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The entire field of Human-Computer Interaction would like a word with you. It’s been used as a term for over 40 years:
Seems like a very strong statement. I'm pretty happy that 'rm foo' doesn't say anything, and typically I find motion a distraction.
> On one hand, they help our eyes be guided, but they also bring a nice finishing touch, a bit of extra care, a bit of emotion; we also prefer a lively UI to a static one, a UI that gives us feedback, that interacts back with us.
I know "interaction" and "interactive" are popular terms, but honestly we don't interact with our UIs any more than we interact with our homes. We manipulate the UI, but there is no "inter" as there is no agency in the interface. If you use facebook you're interacting with other people (perhaps) but otherwise you are manipulating the interface (explicitly by clicking on a link in order to view it, and implicitly by using that click to unwittingly signal some interest to the FB data collector).