[musingsole]

NUIs: iNuitive User Interfaces used to be (perhaps still is) an interesting design philosophy in the UX space. The goal being to build a system that a brand new user fresh off the boat could walk up to and intuit what the system could do and how to manipulate the system to solve their problems. Though this is complicated by our thought patterns and habits being altered by just interacting with computer systems. So, it becomes hard to pinpoint exactly what "intuitive" means to an audience as wide as the entire population or even small groups like "university students".

Thinking this way becomes incredibly important as systems move from dedicated devices further into coordinated actions of ubiquitous devices.

[hervature]

Does NUI not stand for Natural User Interface? iNtuitive is definitely Non-intuitive.

[musingsole]

Probably an attempt at the time to expand the scope of the acronym as the natural user interface concepts are older.