Chris Noessel: lessons of science fiction computer interfaces




What can Logan's Run, Star Wars: Attack of the Clones, and Shrek teach us about computer interface design? Veteran designer Chris Noessel explored these very questions in Make It So: Interaction Design Lessons from Science Fiction, an outstanding book he co-authored with Nathan Shedroff. The two spent years collecting and analyzing brilliant, outlandish, and downright ridiculous technologies in SF cinema and TV to tease out practical knowledge that interface and interaction designers can use today in the real world. At Boing Boing: Ingenuity, our live event in San Francisco on August 18, Noessel gave us a tour of his favorite (and least favorite) science fiction interfaces as seen on TV, and the big screen.


Boing Boing: Ingenuity in partnership with Ford C-Max.