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Software UI is coming to look and act more like Star Trek control consoles.
The iPhone's UI looks like Star Trek graphics. Check out the black background and brightly coloured icons, all behind a glossy glass surface.
Office 2007 is starting to look like that and all of the WPF examples too.
But the really big deal is that Star Trek consoles are touch screens. They are operated by tapping on them. The iPhone operates by tapping, pinching, dragging, flicking, etc. The Microsoft Surface is so like a Star Trek console. It's a big, bright touch console. We are there!
I'm real happy about this. I've always loved the way the consoles looked in Star Trek. I want to be flicking chunks of code around in one of those one day. It makes me wonder whether all of the computer developers love Star Trek consoles too, or if the Star Trek set designers just correctly imagined the future.
2 comments:
Wow; two posts in one week! I think it is both...the Star trek set designers are the same type of people as the hardware developers. Everyone is trying to build the product of his dreams.
Great work.
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