MADE OF WIN!

[octothorpe]

As most of you know, I'm an information architect and user experience designer. I make interfaces for the web, and OSX/Windows/iPhone/iPad/Android platforms.

This made me squee:

http://www.lcarsdeveloper.com/

Yes, the site is in Flash, but that doesn't demote the sheer awesomeness that is an entire site devoted to being a human interface guide to creating LCARS systems (the operating system as shown in Star Trek: The Next Generation and later ST franchises).

Git Yur Geek ON!

Comments

[wrascalism.livejournal.com]

Some of us old time geeks will not upgrade.

[theoctothorpe.livejournal.com]

Ha!!

[maxauburn.livejournal.com]

Cool...

[greatbearmd.livejournal.com]

The future is doomed! It's running Flash! AAAAIIIGGGGHH!!!!

Not to mention there's still no universal spellchecker. X-D

But this is definitely cool as hell.

[cpj.livejournal.com]

It's as if Guy Kawasaki developed a user interface while high on mushrooms, and after that the whole thing was tweaked by a committee.

There are elements of style LCARS that I liked, but some of that stuff is wacked. Like why turn every element red during red alert? Now, the controls for seat position show the same importance as launching photon torpedos.

It's great that they develop standards, but they need to build reasoning and philosophies behind it.

[theoctothorpe.livejournal.com]

Oh, I agree… the whole "red alert flashing madness" thing was insane. The other thing I never liked was the font. The thing is totally unreadable.

Also, Guy Kawasaki isn't an interface designer, he's an evangelist. Jef Raskin is more appropriate ;-)

[cpj.livejournal.com]

Oops, my Mac history is way off. At one time I knew the name of the guy who did custom fonts at Next Computer.

[theoctothorpe.livejournal.com]

I got to meet Jef once a bajillion years ago. Super bright, and quite affable fellow. It's a shame his son isn't as talented (Aza's concepts and production UX designs are *horrible*, and personally, I think he's only listened to because his dad was so influential).

I miss Jef quite a bit (he died in the mid-oughts from pancreatic cancer).

heh

[eskanto]

I have a co-worker who is into doing things like that. I think he made an LCARS interface for his Nokia internet tablet.

I wonder if he knows about this.

[bugbearcub.livejournal.com]

Well giving that most smart phones do allow you to fetch all sorts of data from "the cloud" you can easily have an LCARs interface for most of your data. News, weather, time your parcel going to arrive, barcode scanning, population of zombie groups in the area...

Almost like having a tricorder,

now if you install a medical software that wirelessly connects to the local network, then doctors and nurses can have patient data live on their PDA.

The future is hear, all we need now is to give it some grease or possibly a cookie.

[davyjrshort.livejournal.com]

I geeked at the interface (having enjoyed that STNG world so long ago) but as for my programming knowledge (LCARS?) I am at a loss...oooo pretty colors though.

[theoctothorpe.livejournal.com]

LCARS was the name of the (fake) OS the Federation ships ran. It stood for "Library Computer Access/Retrieval System"