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Touchscreens are pictures under glass, a transitional technology; calling them the future of interaction is like calling black-and-white the future of photography.

Drawn from what Bret Victor said

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design How things should be made and judged: what makes a design good, who should do the designing, and what an interface is for.

designunder our current: The chat box was the door, not the room: the interface is being argued over again What does the interface become when a model is on the other side?under our view: The failure is the glass itself: hands, materials and physical feedback are what an interface owes us

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What Bret Victor actually said

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  1. Bret Victor

    Interface designer and researcher

    To me, claiming that Pictures Under Glass is the future of interaction is like claiming that black-and-white is the future of photography. It's obviously a transitional technology. And the sooner we transition, the better.

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