Frustrating that these aren't labelled! What's this NASA-ish one from? <a href="https://64.media.tumblr.com/75c79a0906e422a7072b9148b52d9501/tumblr_n3pf34JTPP1rwaymjo1_500.gifv" rel="nofollow">https://64.media.tumblr.com/75c79a0906e422a7072b9148b52d9501...</a><p>I didn't spot any of the weirdpunk machinery from Wings of Honneamise:<p><a href="https://www.inetres.com/gp/anime/woh/woh07.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://www.inetres.com/gp/anime/woh/woh07.jpg</a><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaYuAvpp7S6/" rel="nofollow">https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaYuAvpp7S6/</a><p>Or Golden Boy's computer made out of paper: <a href="https://youtu.be/A1R1Du2PsZ4?t=610" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/A1R1Du2PsZ4?t=610</a><p>Or its Japanese-phonetically-respelled SunOS rc script: <a href="https://youtu.be/A1R1Du2PsZ4?t=1196" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/A1R1Du2PsZ4?t=1196</a><p>Or any of the computer bits in that episoder really. By the way don't watch Golden Boy if there are any people who are not, uh, extremely cultured around.
Lots of classics here, but was also hoping to see the ZERO System from Gundam Wing (1995):<p><a href="https://gundam.fandom.com/wiki/ZERO_System?file=W_ZERO_System_OP2.jpg#New_Mobile_Report_Gundam_Wing" rel="nofollow">https://gundam.fandom.com/wiki/ZERO_System?file=W_ZERO_Syste...</a><p>Later in life I would think of it as being inspired by the UK's SAGE defense system, even though it probably wasn't. You can't exactly see from the image, but the screen is a glass dome:<p><a href="https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/real-time-computing/6/120/506" rel="nofollow">https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/real-time-computi...</a>
Was hoping for more Serial Experiments Lain. There are references in it to the Apple OS codename Copeland or Rhapsody-- I don't remember which.
These are so sick. As a 34 year old whose first computers were already Windows 98, it's so weird to imagine a past where this is what the future of computing looked like, as opposed to what we actually got.
Just because recent history has been extremely user hostile, doesn't mean the future (or present) can't look like this.<p>What these anime-futuristic designs have in common are an abundance of information and controls. They're clearly inspired by the equipment that was contemporary to the art at that time (construction, military, etc.)<p>The consumer interfaces we have today were dumbed down due to low computer literacy and the resulting low trust in consumers to not shoot themselves in the foot, but even Apple eventually had to dumb it down less with each new iPhone.<p>"AI" seems to be the breaking point for the user hostility, but it also opens up new opportunities for a lot more information to clutter a dashboard. It can't automate things reliably, but it can make information more accessible, so we'll see what's next.
I feel like you've got it the other way around: high computer literacy as the assumed default was a result of devices and interfaces that were impossible to use without it.<p>It's the same thing with cars: a lot of people not knowing how to maintain their cars is the result, not cause, of car designs and machinery becoming more durable and more idiot-proof.
I don't think we have much of an argument here since your opinion is so opposite to mine.<p>Apart from some details like responsive web design and other miscellaneous interoperability and accessibility efforts, the past few decades of interface designs were not progress.<p>We gimped the living shit out of everything to narrow the scope of every product and extract more money from the consumer.<p>I mentioned AI because tech is only becoming a dead end when the consumer choice is illiteracy. It's pretty clear that's reversing and people do want a lot more information and control.
I am now 80% sure this is a submarine ad for a graphics tablet or HN is letting shit get wild and bot controlled.
Good old Metal Skin Panic Madox 01. What NOT to do when a fully equipped battle exoskeleton falls off the back of a truck and into the junkyard you work at...<p>The opening is worth a watch if you have a minute 12. Airwolf flashing blueprint feel, although soundtrack wasn't as good. Lotta weird little easter eggs if you can pause while the text is shown.
This being on the front page feels like crazy town, super low effort 60 picture tumbler page, most not showing UI and a lot of bots commenting, tighten shit up, this used to be an actual place where posts meant something, not engagement trash.
As opposed the the 30 AI-generated blog posts / "think pieces" on the front page every day, lol. This is hardly the problem with HN's front page. And who says it's low effort? A curated collection of themed screenshots from across dozens of television shows sounds fairly high effort to me. You do realize if you set out to do this yourself, it would entail dozens of hours of watching content keeping an eye out for things to add?
> This is hardly the problem<p>dude investigate yourself, some bro is selling graphics tablets in the comments, if you are alive and seeing this, you a punk.
What I'm finding interesting here is that the "user interface" is either the screen (what I/we normally expect of the term 'user interface') or the input/interaction interface or both.<p>Cockpit images are interesting in an input context because there are buttons and switches surrounding the user.
I'm partial to anything that looks like a nuclear control room (saw one in this list). It's like a while different generation of UX but derived from totally different parts, goals, users, and of course a lot of the people who designed these had been military. Not a lot of room for fluff, lots of room for clarity.<p>Love to see the dizzying array of ways people imagined data can be shown. Everything these days feels so flat. Appreciate the share.
One GIF is a clip from the Hollywood movie WarGames (1983).<p>Not that there isn't animation <i>in it</i>, but... the animation was projected onto a large screen and then that screen with other things around it was filmed.
It is maybe 60 pictures, and a decent chunk of them have absolutely no focus on UI.
Inaccurate. Every one has a UI.
There is one with a screen flashing on some dudes, I waited 15 secs. No UI
<a href="https://64.media.tumblr.com/e9ddbc48b17353046fa5ac73cfc289ef/tumblr_mf82gvgl0c1qbn6jwo1_500.gifv" rel="nofollow">https://64.media.tumblr.com/e9ddbc48b17353046fa5ac73cfc289ef...</a><p>and more, come on man
What do you think user interfaces are? User interfaces are how users transmit or recieve information. Any information display is a user interface. Any button or other control is a user interface. There are even user interfaces that don't have to do with computers, like the user interface of a book (among that being its cover, pages and the information written on them). I don't see a single image here that doesn't contain a user interface.<p>The acronym 'UI' as typically used in computing often refers to specific types of user interfaces. That is not how TFA uses more generally 'User Interfaces', which practically covers anything that exposes information to or receives information from users
> That is not how TFA uses more generally 'User Interfaces',<p>What article? are you an AI or in crazy town, that is a tumbler page full of images, not even very many. See my sibling comment, some are not UI just images of flashing screen lights on dudes, this is not curated it is slop.
oh yeah, this is nice
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For folks who want a real world implementation, Wacom has not yet sold out of their Special Edition Evangelion MovinkPad Pro 14:<p><a href="https://www.wacom.com/en-us/products/wacom-movinkpad-pro-14-eva-edition" rel="nofollow">https://www.wacom.com/en-us/products/wacom-movinkpad-pro-14-...</a>
Is this just an Ad for a tablet?
I own this tablet: For the Japanese price, it is worth it to buy it for the bundled accessories.<p>The tablet itself: Other than the screen and APU being good, it is a heavily stripped down tablet missing a lot of the features that other tablets in its price range or even cheap tablets will have. No haptics, biometrics, and so on. It is very focused on the screen interaction experience and that is basically it.