Past years studies have proved that we couldn't improve GUIs in a significant way without forgetting about most of actual concepts.
So we DO need to forget about files and applications and think about objects, commands and transformers.
We must concentrate in the user's locus of attention, monotony, non-modal GUIs, no more customization, taking care of visibility and affordance, noun-verbs and verbs-noun constructions...
Also we must improve and separate highlighting, indication and selection over objects.
I think we must implement unlimited selections, undos/redos, global search engines, document indexing.
These are very concrete concepts towards future GUIs. A ZIP GUI (2D Zooming Interface Paradigm) can therefore be the clue to all these problems, and a common way to implement modern concepts.
Moreover, realisation and maintenance costs for such GUIs can REALLY be loooower than the actual ones.
I am seraching for people willing to try developing a prototype for such a GUI for Linux (or some other OS). Do not hesitate to contact me.
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Past years studies have proved that we couldn't improve GUIs in a significant way without forgetting about most of actual concepts.
So we DO need to forget about files and applications and think about objects, commands and transformers.
We must concentrate in the user's locus of attention, monotony, non-modal GUIs, no more customization, taking care of visibility and affordance, noun-verbs and verbs-noun constructions... Also we must improve and separate highlighting, indication and selection over objects. I think we must implement unlimited selections, undos/redos, global search engines, document indexing.
These are very concrete concepts towards future GUIs. A ZIP GUI (2D Zooming Interface Paradigm) can therefore be the clue to all these problems, and a common way to implement modern concepts.
Moreover, realisation and maintenance costs for such GUIs can REALLY be loooower than the actual ones.
I am seraching for people willing to try developing a prototype for such a GUI for Linux (or some other OS). Do not hesitate to contact me.
sebastienjust@free.fr