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I'll chalk that labeling scheme up to trying to look good for a shot but not needing to stand up to any real scrutiny, but I have often wondered how usable a LC

I'll chalk that labeling scheme up to trying to look good for a shot but not needing to stand up to any real scrutiny, but I have often wondered how usable a LCARS-inspired interface would be and what would need to happen to make it usable.

olyjohn 3y ago
I've seen demos like this for years, but never anything actually that useful made with the LCARS interface. It looks great, but I don't think it's actually useful for anything more than a dashboard. It goes make some great dashboards though.
- GravitasFailure 3y ago
  Funny you should say...I was eyeballing trying to make a LCARS interface to monitor two printers running Klipper and an AirGradient monitor.
- WorldMaker 3y ago
  The "canon" answer is that LCARS in addition to being extremely task-specific is alleged to be extremely user-specific and things are where a specific user expects them to be, laid out as that user expects to need them and different users would see very different layouts even for some of the same stations. (That implication is that they are extremely user-customized dashboards, so the design pattern resembling what today we call "dashboards" makes quite a bit of sense.) Of course, given the technology at the time TNG was made, showing a lot of different user-specific LCARS panels was nearly impossible, which is why it is "alleged" more than canon fact in the TV shows.
  - rkagerer 3y ago
    Guess in a way it makes sense with all those different alien species with diverse cultures and varied intuitive signaling hints.
- squarefoot 3y ago
  I had the LCARS theme on my Nokia N770 like 15 years ago. It wasn't purely a gimmick as it could be used to launch software, read news, play music etc. Very beautiful; too bad Nokia for well known reasons decided a few years later to stop developing devices running Linux, but that's another story. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwXBPjLdJnU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwXBPjLdJnU

olyjohn 3y ago

I've seen demos like this for years, but never anything actually that useful made with the LCARS interface. It looks great, but I don't think it's actually useful for anything more than a dashboard. It goes make some great dashboards though.

GravitasFailure 3y ago
Funny you should say...I was eyeballing trying to make a LCARS interface to monitor two printers running Klipper and an AirGradient monitor.
WorldMaker 3y ago
The "canon" answer is that LCARS in addition to being extremely task-specific is alleged to be extremely user-specific and things are where a specific user expects them to be, laid out as that user expects to need them and different users would see very different layouts even for some of the same stations. (That implication is that they are extremely user-customized dashboards, so the design pattern resembling what today we call "dashboards" makes quite a bit of sense.) Of course, given the technology at the time TNG was made, showing a lot of different user-specific LCARS panels was nearly impossible, which is why it is "alleged" more than canon fact in the TV shows.
- rkagerer 3y ago
  Guess in a way it makes sense with all those different alien species with diverse cultures and varied intuitive signaling hints.
squarefoot 3y ago
I had the LCARS theme on my Nokia N770 like 15 years ago. It wasn't purely a gimmick as it could be used to launch software, read news, play music etc. Very beautiful; too bad Nokia for well known reasons decided a few years later to stop developing devices running Linux, but that's another story. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwXBPjLdJnU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwXBPjLdJnU