A Brief Rant on the Future of Interactive Design Response

Victor makes a compelling argument on how the central component of interactive future are hands. I had never considered his claim on how most future interaction concepts completely ignore the use of hands, which feel and manipulate things. I took my hands for granted when considering interactive design, and didn’t realise the potential they hold to revolutionise interactive design. The debate on whether to get rid of tactile for the visual was fascinating. There is so much information that the senses in our hands and fingertips receive, I am curious as to how we came to the stage where we began to aim for a “less dynamic” medium. One of my favourite quotes from Victor that accurately summarises his argument is, “claiming that Pictures Under Glass is the future of interaction is like claiming that black-and-white is the future of photography”.

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