Emulation or minimalism, the beauty and sadness of the user interface

The most intuitive user experience for a product comes from the UI, the user interface. Knobs and pointers, buttons and LEDs, touch and screen. ERA in development, http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/11909.html "> Industrial products from full exposure to the details of the present all around the screen existing" black box "state.

The past time is not forget the texture.

Shiny metal parts, natural wood, just right leather texture. The reciprocating of the pendulum, the fluctuation of the piston, the vibration of the spring. Steampunk artists are trying to show that they can see, hear, touch, but have become the warmth of the past. Performance, fans are obsessed with tube amplifiers.

Modern technology products are wrapped in a tight chassis, interacting only through screen interactions. Designed like Apple, the IPad and the iPhone have sophisticated metal shells, but use a simple, near-extreme design to foil the screen-reminding that is the center. When you are attracted by the changes on the screen and the machine itself is quickly ignored, you will find that the real is being simulated. IOS "real" shadows, textures, and even calls to simulate the changes in the lighting of the sensor, Apple's software designers want to bring virtual "real" experience-this seems to be the machine minimalist appearance to two extremes.

The future can not stop the whistling.

Windows Phone and later Windows 8 's "color Block" interface drew a barrage of saliva. No one remembers if it's called Metro, Xiandai or Windows 8 style, but the UI design is straightforward-around content. Although the pace is difficult to accept, in my opinion, it does allow me to focus on the characters that are constantly being updated in the color block. Microsoft's software interface has not never adopted any real-world elements, with Windows XP adding shadows and rounded corners to Windows Vista and Windows 7 evolving to more realistic aero effects-leaving behind modified performance issues, Aero's transparent effect is very popular- All of Windows 8 has been stripped off, causing widespread discontent.

Like Windows, the more moderate Android is slowly changing. 1.5, 1.6 In the shadow of the icon, the real software drawer handles disappeared in 2.2, and in the later 3.0 and 4.0, the real search box and the clock, shaded buttons were replaced, all turned into minimalist-style solid-color interfaces, the last hint of reality-even the entity buttons were virtual.

These different styles do not need to be debated, they are tricky or struggling until we reach the future of pervasive computing. Don't laugh, this is not just science fiction, next year, the Google Glass is a down-to-earth effort.

Get up and wash, the mirrors show the weather, headlines and social networking messages. Open the fridge and list the dietary health advice and shopping list based on your lifestyle and inventory. The table will show today's schedule and traffic information. When you go out, you will see the route and real-time traffic conditions. More importantly, you can activate and see all of the above information in any plane. Microsoft's Office Future Vision concept video vividly describes the future.

All of these storage and calculation are done in the cloud, all objects can be displayed and interacted, what bothersome "user interface"? When the real world becomes part of the interface, when you exhale a shopping list on the fridge, do you add a paper background? Call out the program on the table, and add shadows and high light? Do you have the metal texture of the road signs? You must be joking.

There is no denying that the contents of the refrigerator and the table are also "user interface". But with the development of technology, I think all the design will return to the simple origin, including the so-called "user interface." We love the real feeling and the reality needs to be enhanced rather than simulated. Simulate wood, metal and even shadow changes on the screen? Like a plug in the head, dreaming in the culture fluid. Forgive me, this is "perverse". Minimalist, the interface design around the content is more "human", because we are stretched, regardless of performance, electricity and time.

Source: http://www.ifanr.com/184276