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> At recent user interface conferences, several speakers have lamented that the human interface is stuck. We seem to have settled on the WIMP (windows, icons, m
by moron4hire 6y ago
> At recent user interface conferences, several speakers have lamented that the human interface is stuck. We seem to have settled on the WIMP (windows, icons, menus, pointer) model, and there is very little real innovation in interface design anymore.
Ooof, and here we are, 25 years later, with an intervening opportunity to completely redefine HCI (smartphones), and it's still basically all WIMP.
- 2stop 6y agoWe are still projecting stuff onto a 2D screen and wishing to interact with it. So fundamentally it's not a huge difference. I guess we have gyros, and cool audio processing and I think there have been decent UIs that use them. Maybe AR will change things on this front?
- dwighttk 6y agoWeird, my hand computer only has icons out of those 4.
- dafoex 6y agoI feel many touch interfaces are still fundamentally WIMP. You can only use one, maybe two apps at a time, but they are still windows - just tiled, not floating, and always accessed from a list, not a stack. Icons are obviously still a thing, but I think we hit the nail on the head with those as uniquely shaped pictograms are easier to parse quickly than descriptive text. Menus are often minimal, but they still exist to the extent of "ordered list of things to interact with", and the only thing I think that can really be argued we've got rid of is pointers - but from where I see it, I just think we've added nine more pointers.
- moron4hire 6y agoLook again.