[Sigia-l] HCI in the stone age

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Alexander Johannesen:

> It laments about screen corners...

I guess Ray Charles never used a 30-inch monitor. :-) Hitting corners on
such a real estate is the last thing I want to do!

> The terminology we use is a strong indicator of stone age: »User-oriented«
> design. »User centered« design. Come on! Around whom else would the design be
> oriented?! 

Developers.

It's a fairly pedestrian mishmash of complaints. I don't think he realizes
that the Rubicon of OS GUI design has been crossed. Having become so complex
and with existing user bases in the tens of millions, most OS GUIs are
hopelessly and, in my opinion, irretrievably beyond rescue. Innovation will
come on the new battlefields of design: mobiles, digital TV, dedicated
appliances, games, toys, etc.

Frankly, designers (especially young interface/interaction designers) should
pay attention to underlying trends: rise of the GPU, audio, screens getting
larger and smaller, latency, remote log-ins/storage, scalable resolution,
video compositing, location-based info presentation, virtual file systems,
etc. Those are the areas that will beget innovation, not nitpicking current
OSes.

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Ziya

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