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Kit FUI – User interfaces found in films

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Re: Kit FUI – User interfaces found in films

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post #6

Most futuristic movies seem to not care too much about UI and just throw the standard cliche hacker-like interface, although it might be just a few seconds but an interesting and different UI can be a really nice touch

In films the UI is a storytelling element as much as a camera angle. What you show and how you show it is conveying something to the audience.

And often the ui is conveying sophistication and has not much content. Which is the opposite of what you want in a usable ui. That's why they look so cool and nothing like our regular uis.

There are some exceptions, like in the film "her".

That is also the reason many filmmakers like to put the ui in the air (holograms) or on glass. It looks cool on camera and you can have the actor plus the ui in the same shot.

Re: Kit FUI – User interfaces found in films

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post #16

Wow, that MSFT Future Vision video took me back. I used to watch it when I was 12 years old and was so amazed by it.

I remember a Microsoft future vision presentation from 1994, shown in my home town in Norway at some event that year (I was 14). This video showed the imagined future in 2004. I still cannot find this video anywhere, but that video was really amazing, as it turned out to very accurately describing everyday productivity 10-20 (even 30) years later. Hopefully someone here can remember it too, and perhaps find it?

Is it this one? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t1K6SsJ3UaQ

Re: Kit FUI – User interfaces found in films

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post #12

Some other interesting resources about typography, user interfaces, and coding in movies: Typeset in the Future (book and website): https://typesetinthefuture.com/ Behind the Screens (YouTube channel): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzOc0EEdwWAlnwrWV-7sDbg

And code found in movies and TV shows: https://moviecode.tumblr.com/ Edit: I've justseen is the tumblr page of the YT channel you link, sorry.

Re: Kit FUI – User interfaces found in films

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post #12

Some other interesting resources about typography, user interfaces, and coding in movies: Typeset in the Future (book and website): https://typesetinthefuture.com/ Behind the Screens (YouTube channel): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzOc0EEdwWAlnwrWV-7sDbg

And code found in movies and TV shows: https://moviecode.tumblr.com/ Edit: I've justseen is the tumblr page of the YT channel you link, sorry.

Thanks for sharing that. And I don't get the sense that the Tumblr page is linked to the YouTube channel. I think I just see a few times where the Tumblr page has a post from and linking to the YouTube channel.
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