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November 24, 2002
Digital Aging
Fabio Sergio asks, in the context of a post about the BBC's new links-that-learn (see here, click some links, go 'way, then come back. Topics you click more change color.) "How might interactive products show the qualities of a wooden artifact?
How could they age gracefully?"
Somewhere I remember a suggestion for Mac icons that show their age: worn corners of documents that haven't been updated in a long time, application icons that get dusty with lack of use, control panels that rust... Those seem all too literal. What's the "authentic lo-fi" of the interface? Icons that revert to 8-bit, pixelated images from the 32-bit originals? Portions of the GUI that regress to the command-line?
Posted by Andrew at November 24, 2002 11:27 AM