145 pointsby akyuu8 hours ago15 comments
  • twic5 hours ago
    Frustrating that these aren't labelled! What's this NASA-ish one from? https://64.media.tumblr.com/75c79a0906e422a7072b9148b52d9501...

    I didn't spot any of the weirdpunk machinery from Wings of Honneamise:

    https://www.inetres.com/gp/anime/woh/woh07.jpg

    https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaYuAvpp7S6/

    Or Golden Boy's computer made out of paper: https://youtu.be/A1R1Du2PsZ4?t=610

    Or its Japanese-phonetically-respelled SunOS rc script: https://youtu.be/A1R1Du2PsZ4?t=1196

    Or any of the computer bits in that episoder really. By the way don't watch Golden Boy if there are any people who are not, uh, extremely cultured around.

    • wanda4 hours ago
      At a glance, Battle Programmer Shirase and Patlabor also seem to be absent.
    • justsomehnguy5 hours ago
      > What's this NASA-ish one from?

      Uchū Kyōdai

    • manbash4 hours ago
      ...but do watch Golden Boy when given the opportunity!
  • chao-6 hours ago
    Lots of classics here, but was also hoping to see the ZERO System from Gundam Wing (1995):

    https://gundam.fandom.com/wiki/ZERO_System?file=W_ZERO_Syste...

    Later in life I would think of it as being inspired by the UK's SAGE defense system, even though it probably wasn't. You can't exactly see from the image, but the screen is a glass dome:

    https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/real-time-computi...

    • gregdaniels4214 hours ago
      > Lots of classics here

      Are there? there is one evangelion one, almost no actual classics. I have no idea who is liking this, or why.

      • chao-4 hours ago
        Akira, Cowboy Bebop, Serial Experiments Lain, Space Brothers, Dirty Pair, a few Gundams. You don't have to agree, of course. There is no accounting for taste.
        • gregdaniels4214 hours ago
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          • josephg3 hours ago
            I think the images are awesome and inspiring. If there are greener pastures for you, why bother commenting? Go do whatever makes you happy. I enjoy seeing this cool art.
            • gregdaniels4213 hours ago
              Lol anyone can post 50 pictures and post it, most are not of UIs. Maybe aim higher and ask more of people.
              • josephg3 hours ago
                So? Anyone could make this set of a pictures. But we didn't.

                I enjoyed seeing these pictures. If you think you can make better content, do so. I look forward to upvoting what you make.

                But until then, telling people to "investigate themselves" for enjoying the 'wrong thing' isn't quality content. Its just wasting everyone's time. I like what I like.

  • EvanAnderson5 hours ago
    Was hoping for more Serial Experiments Lain. There are references in it to the Apple OS codename Copeland or Rhapsody-- I don't remember which.
    • Philpax4 hours ago
      Copeland! I was quite surprised to see that myself.
  • jaqalopes7 hours ago
    These are so sick. As a 34 year old whose first computers were already Windows 98, it's so weird to imagine a past where this is what the future of computing looked like, as opposed to what we actually got.
    • sublinear6 hours ago
      Just because recent history has been extremely user hostile, doesn't mean the future (or present) can't look like this.

      What these anime-futuristic designs have in common are an abundance of information and controls. They're clearly inspired by the equipment that was contemporary to the art at that time (construction, military, etc.)

      The consumer interfaces we have today were dumbed down due to low computer literacy and the resulting low trust in consumers to not shoot themselves in the foot, but even Apple eventually had to dumb it down less with each new iPhone.

      "AI" seems to be the breaking point for the user hostility, but it also opens up new opportunities for a lot more information to clutter a dashboard. It can't automate things reliably, but it can make information more accessible, so we'll see what's next.

      • crooked-v5 hours ago
        I feel like you've got it the other way around: high computer literacy as the assumed default was a result of devices and interfaces that were impossible to use without it.

        It's the same thing with cars: a lot of people not knowing how to maintain their cars is the result, not cause, of car designs and machinery becoming more durable and more idiot-proof.

        • sublinear4 hours ago
          I don't think we have much of an argument here since your opinion is so opposite to mine.

          Apart from some details like responsive web design and other miscellaneous interoperability and accessibility efforts, the past few decades of interface designs were not progress.

          We gimped the living shit out of everything to narrow the scope of every product and extract more money from the consumer.

          I mentioned AI because tech is only becoming a dead end when the consumer choice is illiteracy. It's pretty clear that's reversing and people do want a lot more information and control.

          • LelouBil3 hours ago
            I don't think you are so opposite.

            You are saying the chicken came first and they are saying the egg came first.

            • sublinear3 hours ago
              Why must you trivialize this? I definitely explained what the disagreement is.
  • BLKNSLVR6 hours ago
    What I'm finding interesting here is that the "user interface" is either the screen (what I/we normally expect of the term 'user interface') or the input/interaction interface or both.

    Cockpit images are interesting in an input context because there are buttons and switches surrounding the user.

  • oofoe6 hours ago
    Good old Metal Skin Panic Madox 01. What NOT to do when a fully equipped battle exoskeleton falls off the back of a truck and into the junkyard you work at...

    The opening is worth a watch if you have a minute 12. Airwolf flashing blueprint feel, although soundtrack wasn't as good. Lotta weird little easter eggs if you can pause while the text is shown.

  • themaxdavitt3 hours ago
    I love little collections like this. Reminds me of this post on Lego interface panels: https://interactionmagic.com/UX-LEGO-Interfaces
  • robviren7 hours ago
    I'm partial to anything that looks like a nuclear control room (saw one in this list). It's like a while different generation of UX but derived from totally different parts, goals, users, and of course a lot of the people who designed these had been military. Not a lot of room for fluff, lots of room for clarity.

    Love to see the dizzying array of ways people imagined data can be shown. Everything these days feels so flat. Appreciate the share.

  • Findecanor7 hours ago
    One GIF is a clip from the Hollywood movie WarGames (1983).

    Not that there isn't animation in it, but... the animation was projected onto a large screen and then that screen with other things around it was filmed.

  • cgannett7 hours ago
    oh yeah, this is nice
  • gregdaniels4214 hours ago
    I am now 80% sure this is a submarine ad for a graphics tablet or HN is letting shit get wild and bot controlled.
    • saratogacx3 hours ago
      Right now I see you are 11 of 34 comments on this post and all follow this same dismissive tone. Lighten up and let people enjoy stuff.
  • pizzaballs5 hours ago
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  • gregdaniels4214 hours ago
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    • applfanboysbgon4 hours ago
      As opposed the the 30 AI-generated blog posts / "think pieces" on the front page every day, lol. This is hardly the problem with HN's front page. And who says it's low effort? A curated collection of themed screenshots from across dozens of television shows sounds fairly high effort to me. You do realize if you set out to do this yourself, it would entail dozens of hours of watching content keeping an eye out for things to add?
  • gregdaniels4217 hours ago
    It is maybe 60 pictures, and a decent chunk of them have absolutely no focus on UI.
    • khazhoux7 hours ago
      Inaccurate. Every one has a UI.
    • LoganDark7 hours ago
      What do you think user interfaces are? User interfaces are how users transmit or recieve information. Any information display is a user interface. Any button or other control is a user interface. There are even user interfaces that don't have to do with computers, like the user interface of a book (among that being its cover, pages and the information written on them). I don't see a single image here that doesn't contain a user interface.

      The acronym 'UI' as typically used in computing often refers to specific types of user interfaces. That is not how TFA uses more generally 'User Interfaces', which practically covers anything that exposes information to or receives information from users

      • gregdaniels4214 hours ago
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        • imprettypointle3 hours ago
          This Tumblr page first appeared on Wayback Machine in 2017. By 2019 many of the images that we see today were on the page including the image you linked to.

          This collection was almost certainly hand-curated over time by a single individual who likes the wacky sci-fi aesthetic. Some classic animes in there and some I haven't seen. Pretty cool.

          Definitely not slop. And definitely not an astroturfing campaign to sell graphics tablets.

        • LoganDark2 hours ago
          Does TFA not always mean the submission? (I could have worded it better.)

          Flashing lights to communicate information counts as a user interface.

        • phoghed4 hours ago
          Every comment I don’t like is AI and every post I don’t like is slop.
          • gregdaniels4214 hours ago
            Bro, what article? tell me. This is a low effort tumbler page, if you live and you defend this, live better.
            • phoghed4 hours ago
              They said TFA not meaning an actual article dude. You’re taking it overly literally just to score a point, and it’s obvious to anyone reading this.

              You accused them of being AI when there’s zero indication their comment is AI authored.

              Roughly 1/88th of the images on the tumbler page don’t have a UI visible.

              Maybe take your own advice.

  • WillAdams5 hours ago
    For folks who want a real world implementation, Wacom has not yet sold out of their Special Edition Evangelion MovinkPad Pro 14:

    https://www.wacom.com/en-us/products/wacom-movinkpad-pro-14-...

    • Washuu5 hours ago
      I own this tablet: For the Japanese price, it is worth it to buy it for the bundled accessories.

      The tablet itself: Other than the screen and APU being good, it is a heavily stripped down tablet missing a lot of the features that other tablets in its price range or even cheap tablets will have. No haptics, biometrics, and so on. It is very focused on the screen interaction experience and that is basically it.

      • gregdaniels4214 hours ago
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        • Washuu2 hours ago
          Blatant about what? I actually own this tablet and I bought it for reading sheet music and doodling.(Also for Android development for a project that I'm working on.)

          The Eva interface is pretty cool, but it is not worth what I paid for it. I would recommend people look for other options or maybe wait for something better to come out.

    • gregdaniels4214 hours ago
      Is this just an Ad for a tablet?