Arwes – Futuristic Sci-Fi / Cyberpunk Graphical User Interface Framework

Post by CarbyAu » Thu, Aug 27, 2020, 4:01 AM UTC

jjcm wrote: post #139

resu_nimda wrote: post #114

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It really depends on the context and the use cases. The F-15 cockpit is an extreme example of a very complex interface that needs to be highly performant under intense life-or-death conditions. Most UIs that people design, including this library, are not meant for anything remotely similar to those situations. A lot of times it's mostly for consuming content. That video of the F-15 actually features a lot of overlay…

"Most UIs that people design, including this library, are not meant for anything remotely similar to those situations." You would think that, but that isn't necessarily the case. I worked for a Naval intelligence contractor back in 2007, and I was surprised at the amount of times there were requests at the top to "make it look cooler". War rooms at the time tended to look exactly like the Hollywood depictions. Not be…

Post by m463 » Thu, Aug 27, 2020, 5:32 AM UTC

rkagerer wrote: post #123

longnguyen wrote: post #75

Glad to see this posted on Hacker News. I used this for our internal tool and the first time I showed it, almost the whole company were in awe. I made a kind of public version here if you're interested: https://scan-viewer.vercel.app/scans/1 Edit: Guess I should explain a bit more about this tool. Our main product is a handheld scanner that can take an individual’s body measurements while they are fully clothed. You…

What's the elliptic, flat, angled disc near the kidney in the radar reconstruction?

Post by r0b05 » Thu, Aug 27, 2020, 6:18 AM UTC

Post by vanderZwan » Thu, Aug 27, 2020, 7:53 AM UTC

Izkata wrote: post #195

TeMPOraL wrote: post #131

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Strongly agreed. Which is why I was glad to see LCARS returning in Lower Decks , and the series is experimenting with tweaking the design a little to include some lessons in UI design learned over the past decades. Despite being animated comedy, I like it better than post-Enterprise installments, because it brings back the design language of TNG/DS9/VOY/ENT era.

ENT in particular was interesting, when I went back and re-watched it after finally getting to TNG/DS9/VOY (ENT being the first one I saw): They IMO successfully crossed real-world interfaces with TNG-era LCARS [0], creating something that looks vaguely like a tiled window manager, has a minimize function akin to the Windows start-bar (the icons on the right are minimized windows, used on rare occasion in the show fo…

Post by UncleSlacky » Thu, Aug 27, 2020, 10:53 AM UTC

jjcm wrote: post #139

resu_nimda wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It really depends on the context and the use cases. The F-15 cockpit is an extreme example of a very complex interface that needs to be highly performant under intense life-or-death conditions. Most UIs that people design, including this library, are not meant for anything remotely similar to those situations. A lot of times it's mostly for consuming content. That video of the F-15 actually features a lot of overlay…

"Most UIs that people design, including this library, are not meant for anything remotely similar to those situations." You would think that, but that isn't necessarily the case. I worked for a Naval intelligence contractor back in 2007, and I was surprised at the amount of times there were requests at the top to "make it look cooler". War rooms at the time tended to look exactly like the Hollywood depictions. Not be…