| ▲ | codingdave 9 hours ago | |
HCI (Human-Computer Interaction), as an overall subject matter area. Keyboards and screen and mobile devices... they all grew incrementally from what came before, and people are used to it, but we can do better. The AI-driven work these days has not actually re-imagined much. We're doing the same stuff, putting the same UIs on the same screens as we were before AI. It is faster, and the content is changing, but not the core interactions with devices. Do we need to output to screens? Do we need keyboards and mice and digital keyboards on phone as input mechanisms? People are dabbling in VR and AR, and voice control. We're using watches a bit. And those are interesting directions, but some (VR and AR, mostly) of that hardware requirements comes with the baggage of awkward experiences and societal stigma, and often prohibitive costs for non-wealthy consumers. I don't have the answers, I'd just encourage everybody to really ask yourself - is the goal I'm trying to achieve best solved by defaulting to the same "put it on a screen" UX as before, or can we do something completely new? | ||