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Where will UX Design be in 5 years?

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Re: Where will UX Design be in 5 years?

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Post by pjmlp »

TuringTest wrote: post #135
pavlov wrote: post #18

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Sun NeWS should have been that GUI standard, thirty years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS There was a simplicity and purity in its approach to front-end interactivity and rendering that completely eludes the HTML+CSS+JS stack we're now stuck with. As the Wikipedia article states... "NeWS was architecturally similar to what is now called AJAX, except that NeWS coherently: used PostScript code instead of JavaSc…

If you have compilers and GUI tools, how does it matter than the underlying layer is HTML+CSS+JSON? The designer shouldn't see it anyway. Now that we have a web-aware platform (which NeWS was not), nothing stops us to create good UI tools on top - yet it is happening very slowly.

You mean by piling up , , CSS and JavaScript?

Re: Where will UX Design be in 5 years?

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Post by [deleted] »

on_and_off wrote: post #156
flukus wrote: post #54

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I think it's time we whitelist sites that can create popups and popunders. Things like the firefox popup blocker flat out do not work anymore.

is there any real use-case for popunder ? As for popup, Chrome on Android blocks them by default for me (maybe I touched a setting a long time ago).

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Re: Where will UX Design be in 5 years?

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Post by fspacef »

on_and_off wrote: post #130
zer0tonin wrote: post #112

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>if it's Java I have to use the outdated looking Swing Swing has been deprecated in favor of javaFx for a while now.

and neither are used on Android

I get the /s but does anyone know why this is the case? Would make life a lot easier IMO.

Re: Where will UX Design be in 5 years?

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Post by shakna »

taude wrote: post #160
efdee wrote: post #143

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I've heard people talk about them, but I've never seen it on any of the 4 Windows 10 machines running under my roof. Apart from the (already plenty annoying) notification about a new version of Office.

I haven't seen any either. I makes me wonder if people are using pirated versions of Windows and Microsoft has figured out a way to know this reliably and target them with ads. I do have my "developer tools extensions" enabled on my Windows 10 machine, which I wonder if it affects being targeted by ads.

A/B testing for Windows 10 occurs in the wild, instead of extensive QA testing.

You don't see it, because you're in a separate group.

Re: Where will UX Design be in 5 years?

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Post by Arizhel »

thope wrote: post #84
Arizhel wrote: post #78

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Yeah, either you make your whole project GPL, or you buy a license so you can make your code proprietary/non-GPL.

I thought LGPL meant if you link to (Qt) shared libraries, your project does not have to be LGPL ?

You're right, Qt is available under LGPL 3.0 now.

https://www.qt.io/licensing-comparison/

Re: Where will UX Design be in 5 years?

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Post by TuringTest »

pjmlp wrote: post #161
TuringTest wrote: post #135

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If you have compilers and GUI tools, how does it matter than the underlying layer is HTML+CSS+JSON? The designer shouldn't see it anyway. Now that we have a web-aware platform (which NeWS was not), nothing stops us to create good UI tools on top - yet it is happening very slowly.

You mean by piling up , , CSS and JavaScript?

Yes, why not? That's no different than piling objects in a GUI widget library to build a tree structure for the layout of a window; except that it has a human-readable string representation.

Re: Where will UX Design be in 5 years?

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Post by Arizhel »

BaronSamedi wrote: post #155
Arizhel wrote: post #79

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The 80s had their high points for sure, but computer interfaces really aren't one of them unless you like green-screen mainframe interfaces. IMHO, the peak for UIs that are easily usable by regular people with minimal training was back in the mid-to-late-00s. It was before this idiotic flat-UI fad, when UIs had a colorful 3D look to them so they were actually attractive, and also functional (since they were also very…

Are you sure about this? Have you seen what the Xerox Star could do in 1981 ( http://toastytech.com/guis/star.html )? Or how about Symbolics Genera? Both of these systems had UI functionality in some ways more advanced than what we have today. They tried to build smart workstations, where today we have essentially "dumb" operating systems and rely on applications to make them useful. The price we pay for this choice…

>Are you sure about this? Have you seen what the Xerox Star could do in 1981

Yes, I'm quite sure. I was alive in the 80s, and I remember what things were like. I sure as hell don't remember any Xerox Stars, but I do remember lots of mainframe terminals at places like banks. I never even heard of the Star until I saw your link, similar to how I only learned about the Xerox Alto many, many years later and only saw one in the Smithsonian museum, never in actual use. Computers like that were rare research projects, not at all representative of how things were in the 80s. Macs are as close as you're going to get to today's UIs for computers which normal people had access to and were actually in any kind of widespread use, and these weren't really popular until the mid/late 80s (and even then were pretty limited as they were expensive).

You are correct about integration and how shitty web applications are though.

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