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  • Vance · 2 years ago
    I'm curious to hear what alternatives you've seen or suggestions you have for alternatives to the desktop metaphor. What do you think either the next wave will be, or what do you think it SHOULD be?

    I did take a look through your previous articles linked in this one, and there are definitely some interesting points there. But they tend to look at the issue on a lower level than my question here. What's the next big thing in desktop computing GUI design?
  • Vance · 2 years ago
    As an aside, I find it interesting that you published this article at virtually the same time that CodingHorror posted another article (http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/00096...) about how users obsess over customizing their desktops. I wonder how user enjoyment of customizing and prettying-up desktops would carry-over into a nextgen look and feel / GUI paradigm.
  • Jonathan · 1 year ago
    I was asking myself the same as Vance while I read this post.

    Will tangible interfaces be the next 'big step'? Or are there steps in between? Or will the pc and the desktop methapor move in other directions?

    regards from a first-time visitor