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Map UI – Ghost in the Shell

74 points by aspenmayer

by glup

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There's this one GitS (SAC I think) UI thing that I think about pretty often: a bot needs to work faster so its fingers pop open revealing a huge number of additional cursed sub-fingers, such that it can type on a keyboard massively faster. I love thinking of this as such a wonderfully naive early 2000's view on HCI — there's no direct-access data API, the bot needs to use the keyboard so.... more actuators!! How much of technology has this same flavor?

by keiferski

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I’ve always loved cyberpunk-style interfaces (and even have an inspiration folder on my computer for them) but sadly it doesn’t seem to be particularly popular style. I suppose because app designers are generally aiming to be as inoffensive and easily understandable as possible, which usually means a bland minimalism with some friendly corners.
Whereas the various iterations of cyberpunk tend to be maximalist, use colors considered “outdated” (I’m thinking of that Matrix green so ubiquitous in the 90s-00s), or just too cold and machinic seeming.

by sprobertson

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Seems like a great resource but I would have hoped a site focused on UI would have proper z-indices for the main menus.

by hombre_fatal

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People have raised the bar so much that after the intro images I was let down when it wasn't a blog post of someone recreating it with Javascript.

by w-ll

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