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Sometimes it's not about how classy those things are, it depends on how you carry them. Try to focus on driving instead.
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I was thinking about web design and how 15 years ago we had to cater to 1024 x 768 screens with only thousands of colours. These days we have 27" 4K screens with more colours than the eye can distinguish and have powerful GPUs that offer smooth animations and effects.
So is there anything you'd like to be able to do in an application's interface that current screen technology can't offer? I'm not talking smell-o-vision or on-screen haptics or stuff like that. Just visuals.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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3D that doesn't give me headaches, but I can understand that's a personal problem.
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Chris Maunder wrote: These days we have 27" 4K screens with more colours
What sort of smartphone are you using exactly?
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he has an iHoloPhone
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I read that as imHolierPhone. 
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Projecting are we?
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If they would just refuse to display some of the gawd-awful colour combinations some people insist on using, that would be a help. I sure some of them are trying to induce vomiting...
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Chris Maunder wrote: So is there anything you'd like to be able to do in an application's interface that current screen technology can't offer?
If you have very fast animated graphics, you may find the image freqency still too low. Also, the pixel cells of the displays used to be too slow. This has improved, but very fast objects may still leave a visible trail.
Also, the color spectrum of good CRTs used to be far better than that of flatscreens. It's a good question what those who need an exact color calibration use today. I would not be surprised if they still prefer CRTs.
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Since IoT and Web 3.0 concepts are the next big things to really catch on mainstream (outside of stuff like VR) I think the next thing displays should do is be able to recharge themselves so a designer can show animations, etc. for detached devices for an extended period of time.
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We do have screens that can display more colours than we can distinguish, but there seems to be no reasonable way to use it unless you go fullscreen. So, I want a better HDR API. Something that doesn't ruin all other windows that are open at the same time, and that lets me set the background colour of a bog-standard GUI component to ultra-red.
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Chris Maunder wrote: These days we have 27" 4K screens...
You mean my 20" screen is not the "it" thing? Crap! Those guys at Electronics"R"Us are in big trouble when I go back to pick up my tape drive.
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How about making it display what I want it to display, not what I tell it to display?
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Chris Maunder wrote: So is there anything you'd like to be able to do in an application's interface that current screen technology can't offer?
Yeah, and 20 years ago it was 640 X 480. Glad to have left that behind...
I have a lot of ideas about UI failures, but I think you are asking about screen technology (ie. hardware). I've seen some interesting things with touch screens, but it hasn't sold me. I somewhat get the feeling that the technology has pretty much played itself out except for obvious things like screen size, refresh rate etc.
I'd really like to see the big screens more common such that the software technology can catch up and apps will by default assume more resolution. [and ptui on trying to display an "Excel" type grid on a phone] My apps tend to be scientific, with grids and lots of edit controls, check boxes, radio controls and buttons. First generation had to work with 640 X 480. Now I expect 1600 X 1200 or better.
Ubuntu and Microsoft (and others) both just recanted their 3 year failed adventure where they wanted to consolidate all app interfaces from phone to tablet to PC. Bad juju.
Technology ideas:
- I wonder if a wireless monitor is reasonable. I dislike cables.
- I wonder if the GPU could be moved from the CPU into the monitor.
In terms of hardware, I'd like for no more new cable types, or if we have to have one, make it last more than 10 years.
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I'm waiting for the holographic monitor, a little box sitting on the desk projecting a cube/globe of information at the size and resolution you require. True 3D and haptic, that is going to revolutionise how we present data.
That and telepathic software.
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How are they at greyscale?
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I'd like a hologram of Princess Leia to pop out.
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Not everyone has 4K monitors and TVs , unless you mean those small computers called smartphones.A Dell UltraSharp 32 8K Monitor costs USD 3,899 or the latest 21.5-inch iMac with Retina 4K display roughly that much...
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OK, I get that.
The point of the question was "is there anything you would like to be able to do, graphically, that you can't do now".
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Well 15 years just went by so fast I guess.Well considering that webdesign has changed a lot and with newer standards and frameworks especially with JavaScript,WebGL capturing attention and browsers changing code to support these technologies towards better adoption.
Let us not forget Macromedia/Adobe Flash and all those UI created for the web by Flash / Director designers in the 90's and 2000's.Microsoft also tried its had with Silverlight.WPF would have been a contender in UI space if Microsoft had done something more about it than stop at Blend.They should have come up with works like noesisengine which someone else had to do.
I woulda liked to make real UI just like they make in hollywood.....http://www.experienceperception.com/iron-man-2.html / https://www.vprofx.com/blog/passengers / ....  ....
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People don't know what they want or what they will like. When innovative companies like Google, Microsoft or Apple bring something out, and it becomes a hit, then people think that they could not have lived without it.
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I think along the line of what Griff was getting at - except I would like the ability to control the colours on screen outside of the application.
So, say I have an editor that does not have the option to present a black background - I could still get the black background.
I don't know how the mechanics of this would be accomplished but it would allow me to control the colour themes rather than the applications limiting what I can have.
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