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Later in life I would think of it as being inspired by the UK's SAGE defense system, even though it probably wasn't. You can't exactly see from the image, but the screen is a glass dome:
https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/real-time-computi...
I didn't spot any of the weirdpunk machinery from Wings of Honneamise:
https://www.inetres.com/gp/anime/woh/woh07.jpg
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaYuAvpp7S6/
Or Golden Boy's computer made out of paper: https://youtu.be/A1R1Du2PsZ4?t=610
Or its Japanese-phonetically-respelled SunOS rc script: https://youtu.be/A1R1Du2PsZ4?t=1196
Or any of the computer bits in that episoder really. By the way don't watch Golden Boy if there are any people who are not, uh, extremely cultured around.
Uchū Kyōdai
What these anime-futuristic designs have in common are an abundance of information and controls. They're clearly inspired by the equipment that was contemporary to the art at that time (construction, military, etc.)
The consumer interfaces we have today were dumbed down due to low computer literacy and the resulting low trust in consumers to not shoot themselves in the foot, but even Apple eventually had to dumb it down less with each new iPhone.
"AI" seems to be the breaking point for the user hostility, but it also opens up new opportunities for a lot more information to clutter a dashboard. It can't automate things reliably, but it can make information more accessible, so we'll see what's next.
It's the same thing with cars: a lot of people not knowing how to maintain their cars is the result, not cause, of car designs and machinery becoming more durable and more idiot-proof.
Apart from some details like responsive web design and other miscellaneous interoperability and accessibility efforts, the past few decades of interface designs were not progress.
We gimped the living shit out of everything to narrow the scope of every product and extract more money from the consumer.
I mentioned AI because tech is only becoming a dead end when the consumer choice is illiteracy. It's pretty clear that's reversing and people do want a lot more information and control.
https://www.wacom.com/en-us/products/wacom-movinkpad-pro-14-...
The tablet itself: Other than the screen and APU being good, it is a heavily stripped down tablet missing a lot of the features that other tablets in its price range or even cheap tablets will have. No haptics, biometrics, and so on. It is very focused on the screen interaction experience and that is basically it.
Cockpit images are interesting in an input context because there are buttons and switches surrounding the user.
Love to see the dizzying array of ways people imagined data can be shown. Everything these days feels so flat. Appreciate the share.
The opening is worth a watch if you have a minute 12. Airwolf flashing blueprint feel, although soundtrack wasn't as good. Lotta weird little easter eggs if you can pause while the text is shown.
Not that there isn't animation in it, but... the animation was projected onto a large screen and then that screen with other things around it was filmed.
and more, come on man
The acronym 'UI' as typically used in computing often refers to specific types of user interfaces. That is not how TFA uses more generally 'User Interfaces', which practically covers anything that exposes information to or receives information from users
What article? are you an AI or in crazy town, that is a tumbler page full of images, not even very many. See my sibling comment, some are not UI just images of flashing screen lights on dudes, this is not curated it is slop.