@miriamrobern usually I can just let it slide, but on a couple rare occasions I’ll get someone saying it with direct eye contact, a fake smile that doesn’t reach their eyes, and emphasis on “blessed”.
And it’s like ok yeah you clocked me, and you’re an asshole to boot. I hope your all-loving god reminds you of this when the time comes.
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tell me what your favorite computing aesthetic was or is.@cwebber Clicky keyboards with high-gloss color-coded keycaps! Others have already mentioned the Alien movies, which (along with the game Isolation) have some of that. Something about the tactile nature of it and definitely the fact it can be operated without looking - even though my current keyboard is a very quiet mechanical one.
Related - I liked the era when UI buttons looked like buttons, had some bas relief to them, and depressed with clicked. Aqua on OS X. Windows prior to XP. NeXTstep and Irix. I don't need a full skeuomorphic setup, but today's flat design is boring.
But I also really dig the idea of complex multitouch interfaces. Drilling down into data via zoom, rearranging things with a swipe, and more. I feel like we haven't done much in this area - but maybe that's because it's been tried in-house at Apple, Microsoft, etc. and found to have serious downsides. And I'll admit a lot of my love is nostalgia from all the sci-fi I watched growing up in the 80s and 90s.