Is this really the future of user interface?
If you find that using a computer is slow, awkward and repetitive, this is why: much of your time is spent rolling and navigating just in order to click on items. This is dead time, rather like driving to work over and over again, for every task you perform. And many of the items are hidden, inside menus or tabs, or on other pages, making them especially difficult to locate. Not only that, the physical actions required are fiddly and awkward, and don’t optimise the roles our hands play in everyday actions. We’re not always aware, but this makes everything slower and more difficult than it needs to be, and it’s why we get frustrated and sometimes overwhelmed by the process itself. And you end up thinking it’s you. Well it’s not. I am devoted to developing better user interface methods for standard ‘point n click’ applications. The small team I head up has found a simple way to improve things by controlling standard apps with two hands; a ‘third’ device is attached and used by the left hand to instantly ‘fetch’ items for the right hand to use. That’s how we normally use our hands – the left hand holds and passes, the right hand chooses and uses. It’s more than just sharing the workload; it uses your hands in a natural cooperative way, to do what would be impossible with one hand alone. (When you tie your shoes laces, your left hand isn’t just helpful, it’s indispensable!) The two-handed design will particularly suit designers and engineers who require rapid, intensive tool and command selection. This isn’t just futuristic thinking; it’s a practical solution to the inherent shortcomings of the point n click method. We won’t get to ‘the future’ just by dreaming up Hollywood-style gadgets of the 23rd century. The question is HOW to implement them for the apps we’re using NOW. Read about the real solution in these blogs..
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