[LINK] more on interface design

Kim Holburn kim at holburn.net
Sun Jan 24 09:27:32 AEDT 2010


This article is a puff piece on M$ Surface which seems like more M$  
vapourware.  The idea of a NUI makes me immediately think of the wii.   
I just watched a bunch of kids playing on a wii fit.  There's a  
natural interface for you.  And it's not a large ugly table with no  
place for your legs.

On 2010/Jan/23, at 10:21 PM, Steven Clark wrote:

> On 21/01/2010 2:03 PM, Jan Whitaker wrote:
>> http://www.theage.com.au/technology/enterprise/out-with-the-gui-in-with-the-nui-20100121-mne6.html
>> Shift from GUI to natural interfaces, like touch.
>> Might work for some things, but there is a reason for abstraction
>
> I'm curious: surely touch is just the input control for the GUI, in
> place of a mouse or similar?

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