Toward a better computer UI The Aurora demo did not look like a big improvement until maybe http://youtu.be/L6iUm_Cqx2s?t=7m54s http://youtu.be/L6iUm_Cqx2s?t=7

Toward a better computer UI The Aurora demo did not look like a big improvement until maybe http://youtu.be/L6iUm_Cqx2s?t=7m54s http://youtu.be/L6iUm_Cqx2s?t=7m54s where the TodoMVC demo beats even Polymer in LOC count and readability. I've been thinking of similar new "programming" as the main computer UI, to ensure it's easy to use and the main UI people know. Forget Steve Jobs and XEROX, they threw out the baby with the bath water. Using a computer is really calling some functions, typing some text input in between, calling some more. Doing a few common tasks today is opening a web browser clicking Email reading some replying getting a reply back, possibly a notification clicking HN commenting on an article in a totally different UI than email going to threads tab manually to see any response And the same yet annoyingly different UI deal on another forum, on youtube, facebook, etc. Just imagine what the least skilled computer users could do if you gave them a computing interface that didn't reflect the world of fiefdoms that creates it. FaceTwitterEtsyRedditHN fiefdoms proliferate because of the separation between the XEROX GUI and calling a bunch of functions in Command Line. Siri and similar AI agents are the next step in simple UIs. What people really want to do is tell Dustin you don't agree with his assessment of Facebook's UI changes type/voice your disagreement share with public And when you send Dustin and his circle of acquaintances a more private message, you type it share message with Dustin and his circle of designers/hackers To figure out if more people agreed with you or Dustin sentiment analysis of comments about Dustin's article compared to mine That should be the UI more or less. Implement it however, natural language, Siri AI, a neat collection of functions. Today's UI would involve going to a cute blog service because it has a proper visual template. This requires being one of the cool kids and knowing of this service. Then going to Goolge+ or email for the more private message. Then opening up an IDE or some text sentiment API and going through their whole other world of incantations. Our glue/CRUD programming is a mess because using computers in general is a mess.