Future of interaction
A brief rant on the future of interaction design by Bret Victor
As it happens, designing future interfaces for the future used to be my line of work. I had the opportunity to design with real working prototypes, not green screens and After Effects, so there certainly are some interactions in the video which I’m a little skeptical of, given that I’ve actually tried them and the animators presumably haven’t.
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But that’s not my problem with the video Productivity Future Vision (2011).
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I’m going to talk about that neglected third factor, human capabilities. What people can do. Because if a tool isn’t designed to be used by a person, it can’t be a very good tool, right?
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via: Philippe Archontakis