Dienstag, Juni 27, 2006

Physical Desktop Interface

A very interesting project trying to use a physical desktop metaphor can be seen here. I am still not sure that dealing with documents is the right thing for handling information on a computer. I mean, it is a non-physical physical sim, so it follows the desktop metaphor more closely than my Mac SE (and everything I owned after that), BUT - why not make a non-physical non-metaphoric way to handle the stuff on my computer? Some things are instantly missing, such as a good search interaction. Nevertheless, worth a look and much more interesting than Vista-snoozefest! Hopefully, the upcoming Leopard sneak peak at WWDC will be mindboggling (not that I believe that they can really say goodbye to Finder)