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Re:Arwes – Futuristic Sci-Fi / Cyberpunk Graphical User Inte... by Izkata on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @08:34PM (#24288938)
ENT in particular was interesting, when I went back and re-watched it after finally getting to TNG/DS9/VOY (ENT being the first one I saw): They IMO successfully crossed real-world interfaces with TNG-era LCARS [0], creating something that looks vaguely like a tiled window manager, has a minimize function akin to the Windows start-bar (the icons on the right are minimized windows, used on rare occasion in the show for discreet messages), but with a whole bunch of hints of a natural progression into what it would become later in-universe.

[0] https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Desktop_monitor?file=22...

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Re:Arwes – Futuristic Sci-Fi / Cyberpunk Graphical User Inte... by vanderZwan on Thursday August 27, 2020 @03:53AM (#24291109)
It's also interesting how they included design hints of how this would evolve in to TOS era design later (the bulky monitor for example).

It's kind of ironic actually: we as viewers expect that kind of historical consistency, and complain about changes that feel disconnected, but in reality the history of interface design is full of such kind of radical shifts!

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