LCARS Themes in Development

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday October 23, 2006 @08:09PM from the bling-vs-functionality dept.

mr100percent writes "I'm sure most Slashdot readers remember the computer UI from the Star Trek universe. Now, a number of developers are at work making LCARS themes, including one for Nokia tablets. There's even a Standards Board, with a flash LCARS demo." Several of us here in the office had the opportunity to test out the Nokia 770 at LinuxWorld San Francisco. The "cool factor" of a UI like this may even outweigh some of the downsides to the device since most of them were interface difficulties.

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Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. by Anonymous Coward · 2006-10-23 20:31 · Score: 2, Interesting

Can't wait to hear Jakob Nielsen or Tog put this abomination 6 feet under before anyone wastes time on it. A third of the screen is taken up by the menu. Another third consists of mostly non-working buttons with random numbers, while more random numbers serve to distract your attention. The font is so narrow that it's unreadable.

"Functional" and "Futuristic" don't go necessarily hand in hand, and the latter always has to take a backseat to the former.