[HN Gopher] On Desktop GUI Minimalism ___________________________________________________________________ On Desktop GUI Minimalism Author : netdoll Score : 21 points Date : 2023-09-09 18:23 UTC (4 hours ago) (HTM) web link (mycophobia.org) (TXT) w3m dump (mycophobia.org) | bluepoint wrote: | Cool insights in Desktop! I really hope that someone comes up | with a desktop metaphor for the hundreds of open browser tabs | (which I think are the new bookmarks) that hang open in an | endless horizontal list. Imagine tabs which are like documents, | can be moved around, minimized, and spatially organized in | folders and subfolders. Actually, why does this not exist | somehow? | somnic wrote: | There's an extension for firefox called Tree Style Tabs. I | never really got into it but some people are quite | enthusiastic, pretty similar to what you describe though. | bluepoint wrote: | This sounds interesting. I will check it out. | fellowniusmonk wrote: | I think issues with attempts to redefine pc computing interfaces | is that despite what is stated people are not actually starting | from first principles when they go to redesign a personal | computing GUI interface. | | Even in this article just a few sentences after stating we should | start from first principles he then jumps into the assumption of | the "desktop". | | The baggage of TTY interfaces in textual interfaces and the | "desktop" paradigm for GUI interfaces is preventing people from | going back to actual first principles for designing personal | computing interfaces. | | Of course I do appreciate that since the title of the articles is | minimalist desktop GUIs the assumption of "first principles of | computing assuming a desktop analog" is baked into the article, I | just think it's insufficient. | sim7c00 wrote: | so agree that a lot is not going back, perhaps more just | modifying whats there. | | i think the first rule for me is: computers need to make things | more simple for humans. | | how we control our devices, how we use those controls to do | things (like interact with these guis), currentlt the model | makes things always difficult and practically ensures people | lose immersion of their real life into some device screen and | controlscheme. | | tldr i guess; u can optimise guis etc. but if you dont change | the interface to those guis its not reinventing anything. these | things work in concert to generate the users experience. | torstenvl wrote: | [delayed] | pengaru wrote: | That's quite the wall of text I won't be reading... | MrVandemar wrote: | Put it in reader-mode and up the line-height. Much improved. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-09-09 23:00 UTC)