[neilalexander]

If you haven’t seen them, look at the Microsoft Future Vision concepts for some quite interesting ideas:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-tFdreZB94

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6cNdhOKwi0

To me, what makes these fantasy UIs compelling is that they are usually extremely context-aware and content-aware. We haven’t quite worked out how to make real world computers work that way yet.

We’re still very much tied to paradigms that are ultimately easier for the computer (apps, windows, menus, files) as opposed to things that are natural to humans. If I have one hope for ML, it’s that hopefully it will bring some context-awareness to computing so that the content becomes the user interface.

[noodles_nomore]

Surprisingly hollow. There is almost no information on the screens to indicate what any swipe or touch might do. Explains a lot about their decisions in Windows 8/10. Their ideal is magic bullshit.