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Most futuristic movies seem to not care too much about UI and just throw the standard cliche hacker-like interface, although it might be just a few seconds but

Most futuristic movies seem to not care too much about UI and just throw the standard cliche hacker-like interface, although it might be just a few seconds but an interesting and different UI can be a really nice touch

XorNot 6y ago
In films the UI is a storytelling element as much as a camera angle. What you show and how you show it is conveying something to the audience.
- slmjkdbtl 6y ago
  i thought this website is about literal UI on screens, in films?
  - rspicer 6y ago
    It is! And what the production designers put on screens is part of what communicates with the audience. Maybe the audience needs to get specific information from the UI in order to understand something in the story. Maybe the audience needs to understand that the talent is having a certain kind of interaction that gives them a particular kind of information, or allows them to control something. In all those cases, the UI is part of how the creative team tells the viewer what's going on in the world of the film!
    - slmjkdbtl 6y ago
      Yeah the functionality is definitely important from story telling perspective, my point there is the style of the UI is also part of the world building, e.g. the screens from Star Wars should look different from the screens from Blade Runner cuz they're different worlds and different culture, people should have different means to access information from devices. Making everything typical sci-fi style hologram looking UI works but it's a place that can add some nice touch (or can use non screen interfaces if it makes sense in the world)
- danybittel 6y ago
  And often the ui is conveying sophistication and has not much content. Which is the opposite of what you want in a usable ui. That's why they look so cool and nothing like our regular uis. There are some exceptions, like in the film "her". That is also the reason many filmmakers like to put the ui in the air (holograms) or on glass. It looks cool on camera and you can have the actor plus the ui in the same shot.

XorNot 6y ago

In films the UI is a storytelling element as much as a camera angle. What you show and how you show it is conveying something to the audience.

slmjkdbtl 6y ago
i thought this website is about literal UI on screens, in films?
- rspicer 6y ago
  It is! And what the production designers put on screens is part of what communicates with the audience. Maybe the audience needs to get specific information from the UI in order to understand something in the story. Maybe the audience needs to understand that the talent is having a certain kind of interaction that gives them a particular kind of information, or allows them to control something. In all those cases, the UI is part of how the creative team tells the viewer what's going on in the world of the film!
  - slmjkdbtl 6y ago
    Yeah the functionality is definitely important from story telling perspective, my point there is the style of the UI is also part of the world building, e.g. the screens from Star Wars should look different from the screens from Blade Runner cuz they're different worlds and different culture, people should have different means to access information from devices. Making everything typical sci-fi style hologram looking UI works but it's a place that can add some nice touch (or can use non screen interfaces if it makes sense in the world)
danybittel 6y ago
And often the ui is conveying sophistication and has not much content. Which is the opposite of what you want in a usable ui. That's why they look so cool and nothing like our regular uis. There are some exceptions, like in the film "her". That is also the reason many filmmakers like to put the ui in the air (holograms) or on glass. It looks cool on camera and you can have the actor plus the ui in the same shot.