Design Fed: June 2010

We are now entering the third stage of Human / Computer interaction. This is called NUI (natural user interface). The first two stages were CLI (command line interface) and GUI (graphical user interface).

Within the next few years, everything will go towards NUI (this is already happening, see iPhone, iPad, Microsoft Surface etc). Most of our computer interaction will be touchscreen and voice control. Of course keyboards, mice etc will still exist, but they will not be the dominant way of interacting with your device (computer, tablet, smart phone, tv, or whatever).

There are videos all over the web, and statistics everywhere already proving this. Just take a look at the "vision" projections from any computer, software or device manufacturer and you will see that this is not an option, it is happening.

Some examples...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoyfTciK4jg&playnext_from=TL&videos=kmqyijM6tVU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX-gTobCJHs&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvtxupQmRSA&feature=PlayList&p=DC88D59DC711D462&playnext_from=PL&index=0&playnext=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFQWc79TYcU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ78ySv1WpU&playnext_from=TL&videos=KzhnLs9PFQg

http://www.vimeo.com/1347289

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7508842.stm

http://dev.chromium.org/chromium-os/user-experience/form-factors/tablet

http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20000034-264.html?tag=nl.e415

http://www.istartedsomething.com/20090228/microsoft-office-labs-vision-2019-video/

http://ax.itunes.apple.com/ie/podcast/steve-jobs-bill-gates-at-d5/id256972720

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sTgLYH8qWs&feature=player_embedded

http://www.flypmedia.com/issues/20/#8/2