I found this talk very enlightening. Microsoft and Apple are stuck. Linux is great but it’s a massive behemoth. Haiku is tight, different, untapped potential. The SEN project reminds me of forward thinking that was brought up in the following talk. I’d love to get y’all’s thoughts on this and the future for our loved OS.
One should keep in mind that old does not necessary mean bad. Leibniz’s notation is a few centuries old and people still use it.
A great trait of Haiku is that it preserves old things that are good. You don’t see horrors of modern design here. In the same time, it’s open to new things if they are beneficial.
Great talk by the way.
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Our devs (and most of the userbase) are if anything, more conservative than any of those three. If Be, Inc didn’t do it that way, you’d really have to come up with an utterly compelling reason to change. Mockups don’t count for squat around here, implement it in code and we’ll see.
I believe Haiku can gain benefits from the Y2K aesthetics trend but we haven’t found the way to achieve it.
The most refreshing »UI/UX« presentation this year. Thank you so much. Perhaps not always consciously, but haiku is well-positioned when it comes to coloring beyond the lines.
Yes, I agree. I found the presentation very interesting, and not only for software. As a business model, it helps to be unafraid to encourage the ‘what if’ and the incremental drive to be ‘coloring outside the line’. I like @grexe approach with SEN for this reason. IMHO clinging to past paradigms will stifle innovation. Watching how people interact with Haiku can inform where it can be improved. Because of its superior underpinnings, Haiku is positioned to blaze forward a better path in desktop computing. As an aside, I agreed with the presenter that the desktop is far from obsolete, rather that is where serious work is still being achieved.