Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Scenarios of Future User-Interface Design (01 Oct 1999) After a brief look at the last 30,000 years of civilization in which human beings have made tools and signs, I shall present some themes of likely development for user-interface and information-visualization design in the next decades of computer hardware and software. Among other scenarios I shall explore are the emergence of style, of she-c's in addition to he-c's, the growing importance of cultural diversity, and consequent new metaphors and new hieroglyphics, giving rise to "fabulous" new appearance and interaction paradigms. Article URL: http://hci.stanford.edu/seminar/abstracts/99-00/991001-marcus.html   90.00    (Aaron Marcus)   Read 123 more articles from Stanford HCI Seminars sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Suns Quasi-Open Source model This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy