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I very much disagree. Computing is going more and more towards integrated devices (phones, tablets, etc.) and companies are making serious investment in voice.

I very much disagree. Computing is going more and more towards integrated devices (phones, tablets, etc.) and companies are making serious investment in voice. Siri, Cortana, Amazon Fire, even my PS4 claims it can be controlled with voice. Once this reaches a certain level of utility it will become dominant. "Hey computer, open that word document I was working on yesterday. No, the one about the Davis merger". That is more a long-term goal. Currently the future of UI is physics systems. The little bit of UI animation that happens today often uses interpolation routines (e.g. easing in it's many forms). Interpolation is time based and has annoying limitations like it is hard to coordinate multiple animations, it is hard to update animations smoothly on the fly and it can be non-trivial to reverse out of an in-progress animation. I think we'll see a strong movement towards natural looking physical based movement throughout the UI.

mbrock 11y ago
Neal Stephenson's essay "In the Beginning was the Command Line" has this bit: > Americans' preference for mediated experiences is obvious enough, and I'm not going to keep pounding it into the ground. I'm not even going to make snotty comments about it—after all, I was at Disney World as a paying customer. But it clearly relates to the colossal success of GUIs and so I have to talk about it some. Disney does mediated experiences better than anyone. If they understood what OSes are, and why people use them, they could crush Microsoft in a year or two. There's so much expertise in animation, games, 3D, physics, illustration etc while most UIs are boring, boxy, and slow. The UIs inside of simulated computers in computer games are cooler than the actual UIs! I wonder what will happen with virtual reality UIs. With movement tracking you could really get next-level point and click. I want my IDE to be a VR spaceship mission where I write code with some kind of sign language syntax!

mbrock 11y ago

Neal Stephenson's essay "In the Beginning was the Command Line" has this bit: > Americans' preference for mediated experiences is obvious enough, and I'm not going to keep pounding it into the ground. I'm not even going to make snotty comments about it—after all, I was at Disney World as a paying customer. But it clearly relates to the colossal success of GUIs and so I have to talk about it some. Disney does mediated experiences better than anyone. If they understood what OSes are, and why people use them, they could crush Microsoft in a year or two. There's so much expertise in animation, games, 3D, physics, illustration etc while most UIs are boring, boxy, and slow. The UIs inside of simulated computers in computer games are cooler than the actual UIs! I wonder what will happen with virtual reality UIs. With movement tracking you could really get next-level point and click. I want my IDE to be a VR spaceship mission where I write code with some kind of sign language syntax!