Speaking of the UI: blegh. I’m probably the minority in this, but my hands clench into a fist whenever I see a super flashy, super spectacular animation with zero input tabs, stuff zooming-rotating-panning-cropping while someone isn’t even touching the mouse (touchpad), just clickety-click, typing away into the void. But not just the lack of cursor (or most often, an entire input field): the fact that characters mash the keyboard for something that would otherwise need a mouse.
I used to hate fake programs, but I understand that there are legal/financial reasons not to use a real one, so I don’t expect that anymore, and I do a notbadobama face whenever I see a genuine browser/OS.
Now, I also understand that watching a stationary screen while someone slowly fills a field is not too exciting, and you need to bring in dynamic elements. But just like with conversations, you can show the user more, and zoom out of the screen a bit. I liked what Minority report did to make everything flashy and moving with all those projected photos and hand gestures. They even made some sense.
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