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[_] 3D UI

Chris Kaminski chris at setmajer.com
Fri Jul 14 17:47:20 BST 2006


> Might be useful for this 3D UI too, although I bet it's
> tiring and RSI-inducing.

Tiring maybe, but not so much RSI-inducing: RSI comes from making the *exact
same* motion over and over and over, and most often from motions which are
very limited in range. The 'Minority Report'-style UI would allow a much
broader range of movement, which would actually help


> I tend to think that these kind of things are fairly
> annoying: I like my computer keeping things nice and ordered
> in a grid for me so I can use keyboard shortcuts for filing.
> I wish my real-life desk would have the same functionality.

The 'neat piles' for you, then?

You can make a messy desktop with a 2D UI as well. I expect you could do a
very gridlike one with this, too.


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