Re:Retro nostalgia and why my new website looks like Window ...
by gonzo41 on Sunday April 18, 2021 @07:13AM
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Your talk about VR is akin to popup books. It won't be the panacea that people think.
Mac Command+Space search (Spotlight?) is about as good as it gets for driving a ui these days.
Truth is, we had knobs and switches, then typewriters which naturally transition to command line, then we had window managers which are like a desk(top) covered in papers. Then we had... well that’s all we have. I guess the next thing is AR/VR and 3D UIs but until then...
A mobile phone or tablet UI I would say is like a spiral bound pocket notebook, as compared to the proper desktop metaphor of full laptop/desktop computers.
It’s like trying to reinvent the book. It _can_ be enhanced, but most of the time it doesn’t change the overall reading experience.