Think outside the screen - Interaction Magic

Nobody likes stroking a pane of glass, so why do we love touchscreens so much? Let's build distributed interfaces that work.

November 2018 Great interfaces are under threat. From screens. You'll notice it every time you tap a screen and then look elsewhere to check what happened. Drive an EV and it's your daily routine: you go to charge it and plug in the cable, only to turn around to check behind you that the connection was made. These products are letting you down, and their centralised interfaces are to blame. The antidote? Distributed interfaces. Hardware interface concepting I see product briefs with sections labelled “Interface goes here” too often. When your interface is clustered into one small space…

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• Charelle Jazmin

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