Feb 16 2010
GUI as Interpretive Dance: Oblong/g-speak
Maybe one day I’ll be cool enough to get a TED invite and i can see stuff like Oblong’s demo of their g-speak interface.
As eye candy this is wickedly cool, and, naturally since its developed by the guy who did the design of the imagined interface for Speilberg’s Minority Report, everyone thinks it’s the future of computing. Don’t hold your breath tho’ as an interface so far they haven’t shown how it could be practical or frankly very efficient. Lots of gestures, very complicated and very little actual output. In the future will everyone need to have studied with the Martha Graham Dance Company? I think Apple’s got it nailed… small gestures; subtle motions. Obvious, and direct actions tied to obvious direct goals …not interpretive dance.
No responses yet