Re:Future Interfaces
by _xhok on Wednesday April 30, 2014 @01:49PM
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What's most striking to me is how the older films got the future wrong. Mechanical and computer interfaces of their time were gray and clunky, so they imagined future interfaces would be even more alienating (as things got more "high-tech"). Now the "future interfaces" in our movies have sleeker, more beautiful displays.
Ex: http://24.media.tumblr.com/d1443e589eb392e808a8c57b3d4dd0c9/...
Why display a nicely-tiled "Emergency" screen, when you could just pop up a dialog box and use the built-in exclamation icon?
http://screen.waxy.org/screenshots/
More info in this post on his blog:
http://waxy.org/2013/07/screens_on_screen/
Apparently this is a independent, minimalist atmospheric sci-fi game currently in development.
http://www.noteloop.com/kit/fui/