>This particular iteration may not be interesting to you, but we're stuck with WIMP (or WIMP-lite) environments very similar to the 40 year old versions. (More colours, more animation, bigger icons, but little actual change)
Well, more colours, more animation, more GPU power, etc are enablers of very important stuff that was impossible back in the day. For example, you didn't edit live video streams, with filters applied in real time, on those 40 year old version. We also have multi-touch now.
I'n not sure about the "we're stuck" meme. It's like taking for granted that there is something entirely different for UI interaction (as opposed to incrementally better).
Well, 3D interfaces are about as old as the WIMP. And what experience has showed as those 20-30 years we experiment with them is they are not really better for a lot of stuff.
Some things are just better in a specific way -- in the way that, say, reading gives us more information density than speach or watching a video, so those can never replace it and still have that.
Or in the way that speech recognition is a nice novelty, and perhaps essential for people with hand inpedements (or with hands engaged in another activity), but it's extremely tiring for writing a blog post or input of large-ish amounts of text (as anyone who had to talk for a presentation or a class of students for an hour or more already knows).
Well, more colours, more animation, more GPU power, etc are enablers of very important stuff that was impossible back in the day. For example, you didn't edit live video streams, with filters applied in real time, on those 40 year old version. We also have multi-touch now.
I'n not sure about the "we're stuck" meme. It's like taking for granted that there is something entirely different for UI interaction (as opposed to incrementally better).
Well, 3D interfaces are about as old as the WIMP. And what experience has showed as those 20-30 years we experiment with them is they are not really better for a lot of stuff.
Some things are just better in a specific way -- in the way that, say, reading gives us more information density than speach or watching a video, so those can never replace it and still have that.
Or in the way that speech recognition is a nice novelty, and perhaps essential for people with hand inpedements (or with hands engaged in another activity), but it's extremely tiring for writing a blog post or input of large-ish amounts of text (as anyone who had to talk for a presentation or a class of students for an hour or more already knows).