The Fritzes award honors the best interfaces in a full-length motion picture in the past year. Interfaces play a special role in our movie-going experience, and are a craft all their own that does …| Sci-fi interfaces
In preparation for the Fritzes, a review of sci-fi movies from 2024 highlighted the prevalence of heads-up displays (HUDs). Analyzing five films, the author categorizes HUDs based on functional sop…| Sci-fi interfaces
Amazon’s The Boys, features an interface design flaw in the Season 4 finale. The big red panic button, easily noticeable and manually activated, is bad design. The writer describes why, propo…| Sci-fi interfaces
So I missed synchronizing the Fritzes with the Oscars. By like, a lot. A lot a lot. That hype curve has come and gone. (In my defense, it’s been an intensely busy year.) I don’t think providing nom…| Sci-fi interfaces
I’ve been watching Star Trek for as long as I can remember. Though it’s always been in the air of culture, it wasn’t until March 2020—when we were all stuck at home with Netflix and nothing else to…| Sci-fi interfaces
The article discusses the concept and evolution of 3D interfaces in film, TV, and reality. It analyzes 3D graphics in films like ‘Jurassic Park’ and ‘Hackers’, the adoption …| Sci-fi interfaces
We interrupt the 3D file browsing series for this Santa-holiday one-off post. If you’re trapped somewhere needing design-and-Santa-related distraction, here’s a bunch of words, images, and links fo…| Sci-fi interfaces
Our last 3D file browsing system is from much later and in a different format. It appears in the TV series Community, season 6, episode 2, “Lawnmower Maintenance and Postnatal Care”. Thanks to the …| Sci-fi interfaces
Disclosure (1994) features a unique virtual reality-based 3D file browsing system known as ‘The Corridor.’ In the film, executive Tom Sanders uses this system to search for evidence aga…| Sci-fi interfaces
Our third film is from 1995, directed by Iain Softley. Hackers is about a group of teenage computer hackers, of the ethical / playful type who are driven by curiosity and cause no harm — well, not …| Sci-fi interfaces