My good friend Thijs Stalenhoef (from the BeOS/BeNews days) sent me a link to the NooFace web site, which is “in search of the Post-PC Interface”. There are a lot of interesting articles to find there, so make sure you have a look at their archives as well.
NooFace: In Search of the Post-PC Interface
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Eugenia Loli
Ex-programmer, ex-editor in chief at OSNews.com, now a visual artist/filmmaker.
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Haha! It’s built on Slashcode! Anyway, seriously, I read some of it, and I must say, it’s useless. It’s a news portal, just like OSNews or Slashdot, and not a very good one. Eugenia has posted that “When Good Interfaces Go Crufty” article ages ago.
>Haha! It’s built on Slashcode!
Erm… Yes. So?
>it’s useless. It’s a news portal,
If it is useless, and osnews and slashdot are also of the same nature, why do you read all of these sites?
>and not a very good one
I like it. It has a nice collection of UI and other geek articles, all in one place, easy to find them. I believe it is a good weekend reading, so I linked it.
Because the selection is so limited. OSNews and Slashdot are updated every day, this gets an article every day or so. Plus, they have almost no userbase. There is ONE comment on the site. That’s it. Plus, the only thing that interests me is an article that you’ve posted already…weeks ago.
Oh, and for a UI site, it’s pretty damn ugly. 😉
About the GUIs, I like the way I interact with the computer right now by accessing files and folders in a “2D interface”. Most of the future interfaces I’m sure would look cool in 3d when they’re futher refined. Why not improve upon what we already have instead in 2D interfaces? current model instead. The 3d GUIs I looked at on the site are really confusing. Having to go through files in a 3D setting is useless. Its useless to me to have 3d GUIs, I get headaches and dizziness as it is playing games let alone having to use it to search through files.
Personally, I find OSNews is great. I like the layout much more than Slashdot. I happen to find that it is much easier to go through the comments in the threads much more easily.
You’re right, right, right.
Eugenia posted the only interesting article weeeeeks ago, the 11/08/2002! And they posted that same old news weeeeeeks after, the 11/11/2002. Wow!
And, yes, choosing slashcode is a mistake too, since the site has been created to have only two editors and no userbase forever. They shouldn’t have chosen such a scalable proven piece of code.
And we know that a great userbase is a proof of quality, and the lack of it a proof of the absence of quality, don’t we?
Eugenia you’re right. It’s a very interesting site, even for someone like me, not very interested with 3D interfaces.
Uh…maybe I’m getting the wrong impression, but I didn’t say anything bad about OSNews. It seems that you all have to defend it. I *love* OSNews. Eugenia is way more involved than anybody on Slashdot (especially I was banned for no apparent reason, and two weeks later and three e-mails, I am still not un-blocked nor have I gotten a response from there designated “unban request” e-mail address), and a way larger percentage of the articles interest me (compared with some of the cr@p they have on Slashdot).
It doesn’t seem like there is anything very cool or very useful on this “nooface” site.
The “nooface” people seem behind the times. Even the site itself gives the impression of “old age”. There is no vitality.
Perhaps in their sifting… they will find a few small gold nuggets that the real miners left behind.
Let us be hopeful for them. I’m sure there was a good intention or two behind this site.
RP
>> >Haha! It’s built on Slashcode!
Erm… Yes. So? <<
Eugenia, I think he was commenting on this because slashdot is a horrible site far as design. The forums have to be one of the worse ever created. also it’s very buggy. Things like randomly when you click “read more” and it reloads the main page, and sometimes reloads it in a differant color. Or when you change a veiwing option it sometimes takes you back to the main page. Also the very randomness of such events occuring. These things I think make people feel as if slashcode is just a messy hack held together by wire and gum. Slashdot just has this massive beast that breaks down all the time but is loved by it’s owners for its’ quirks feel to it.
I must be a very lucky one. Never had any of the problems you describe on /..
Never seen a bug on /., but I agree with you on the design. It is pretty unintuitive. The best one I have seen (and use) so far is phpbb. It is by far much better than OSNews and Slashdot. But I think the most major problem on Slashdot isn’t the code, but the lack of moderation. Call it censorship, but it would make it much more easier if a team of moderators mod down off topic, flamebaitish and trollish post.
Nooface is a pretty good site. Informative. The only problem that I have is that their icons are too detailed, but frankly, I don’t really need to look at the icons anyway. Their focus is on User interfaces for Post-PC devices and their readership isn’t choke full of super-elitist UI designers. You have to admit, there are a lot of know-it-alls and they’re pretty overbearing. There are often news items on speech interfaces and 3D interfaces in research. I actually sent the link to this site to OSNews when Eugenia put out a questionaire. E, I’m glad that you posted this.