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Re: Anime User Interfaces

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Post by gregdaniels421 »

LoganDark wrote: post #7
gregdaniels421 wrote: post #3

It is maybe 60 pictures, and a decent chunk of them have absolutely no focus on UI.

What do you think user interfaces are? User interfaces are how users transmit or recieve information. Any information display is a user interface. Any button or other control is a user interface. There are even user interfaces that don't have to do with computers, like the user interface of a book (among that being its cover, pages and the information written on them). I don't see a single image here that doesn't con…

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Re: Anime User Interfaces

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Post by sublinear »

crooked-v wrote: post #18
sublinear wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just because recent history has been extremely user hostile, doesn't mean the future (or present) can't look like this. What these anime-futuristic designs have in common are an abundance of information and controls. They're clearly inspired by the equipment that was contemporary to the art at that time (construction, military, etc.) The consumer interfaces we have today were dumbed down due to low computer literacy…

I feel like you've got it the other way around: high computer literacy as the assumed default was a result of devices and interfaces that were impossible to use without it. It's the same thing with cars: a lot of people not knowing how to maintain their cars is the result, not cause, of car designs and machinery becoming more durable and more idiot-proof.

I don't think we have much of an argument here since your opinion is so opposite to mine.

Apart from some details like responsive web design and other miscellaneous interoperability and accessibility efforts, the past few decades of interface designs were not progress.

We gimped the living shit out of everything to narrow the scope of every product and extract more money from the consumer.

I mentioned AI because tech is only becoming a dead end when the consumer choice is illiteracy. It's pretty clear that's reversing and people do want a lot more information and control.

Re: Anime User Interfaces

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Post by gregdaniels421 »

chao- wrote: post #11

Lots of classics here, but was also hoping to see the ZERO System from Gundam Wing (1995): https://gundam.fandom.com/wiki/ZERO_System?file=W_ZERO_Syste... Later in life I would think of it as being inspired by the UK's SAGE defense system, even though it probably wasn't. You can't exactly see from the image, but the screen is a glass dome: https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/real-time-computi...

> Lots of classics here

Are there? there is one evangelion one, almost no actual classics. I have no idea who is liking this, or why.

Re: Anime User Interfaces

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Post by phoghed »

gregdaniels421 wrote: post #21
LoganDark wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you think user interfaces are? User interfaces are how users transmit or recieve information. Any information display is a user interface. Any button or other control is a user interface. There are even user interfaces that don't have to do with computers, like the user interface of a book (among that being its cover, pages and the information written on them). I don't see a single image here that doesn't con…

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Every comment I don’t like is AI and every post I don’t like is slop.

Re: Anime User Interfaces

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Post by chao- »

gregdaniels421 wrote: post #24
chao- wrote: post #11

Lots of classics here, but was also hoping to see the ZERO System from Gundam Wing (1995): https://gundam.fandom.com/wiki/ZERO_System?file=W_ZERO_Syste... Later in life I would think of it as being inspired by the UK's SAGE defense system, even though it probably wasn't. You can't exactly see from the image, but the screen is a glass dome: https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/real-time-computi...

> Lots of classics here Are there? there is one evangelion one, almost no actual classics. I have no idea who is liking this, or why.

Akira, Cowboy Bebop, Serial Experiments Lain, Space Brothers, Dirty Pair, a few Gundams. You don't have to agree, of course. There is no accounting for taste.

Re: Anime User Interfaces

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Post by manbash »

twic wrote: post #13

Frustrating that these aren't labelled! What's this NASA-ish one from? https://64.media.tumblr.com/75c79a0906e422a7072b9148b52d9501... I didn't spot any of the weirdpunk machinery from Wings of Honneamise: https://www.inetres.com/gp/anime/woh/woh07.jpg https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaYuAvpp7S6/ Or Golden Boy's computer made out of paper: https://youtu.be/A1R1Du2PsZ4?t=610 Or its Japanese-phonetically-respelled SunOS…

...but do watch Golden Boy when given the opportunity!

Re: Anime User Interfaces

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Post by gregdaniels421 »

chao- wrote: post #27
gregdaniels421 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Lots of classics here Are there? there is one evangelion one, almost no actual classics. I have no idea who is liking this, or why.

Akira, Cowboy Bebop, Serial Experiments Lain, Space Brothers, Dirty Pair, a few Gundams. You don't have to agree, of course. There is no accounting for taste.

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