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1. ChrisChinchilla 22 min later

   @zachleat @wiredprairie Read the fantastic "Make It So: Interaction Design Lessons From Science Fiction", explains this interface plus many others. Lovely book :)

2. Sascha Karnatz 1 hr later

   @zachleat @wiredprairie the video make me think how they made it in the past and how much ahead of their time they were.

   1. Zach Leatherman 2 hr later

      @_web_ @wiredprairie *YES* TNG started in 1987!!

3. Zach Leatherman 2 hr later

   Another great point in discussion with @_web_:

   These designs are from 1987 🤯 when the state of the art in operating systems looked like this:

   1. Scott Jenson 3 hr later

      @zachleat @_web_ as someone that does haptic design, I was blown away to learn that the LCARS team actually specified haptics in their button designs, back in the 80s! Very impressive work!

      1. Zach Leatherman 4 hr later

         @scottjenson @_web_ Yes! Amazing! It’s too easy to look at these things with modern eyes where touchscreens are everywhere

         1. Sascha Karnatz 4 hr later

            @zachleat @scottjenson I watched last time Voyager and asked myself how Paris can piloting a ship with a touch screen. Nowadays with touch screens in cars I usually miss haptic feedback. But Voyager first aired 1995 and now, 30 years later, we have these space ship cars…