Future of Interfaces

DesignReviver (via @blogblog) has compiled a categorial list of aspects that drive future UI development:

• Better and more intuitive devices interaction
• Everyday devices connected to the Internet
• Multi-touch, without touching the screen
• Interactive and intuitive user interfaces for better browsing
• Gesture based interfaces
• Interfaces aware of context
• New materials that will influence UI

While I agree with the list in general there is something I do not like about it: this list is purely determined by technological advances.

We will see changes in almost all areas of society: how we shop, how we love, how we go about politics, what we regard as value, etc.

So I add some other (very speculative and spontaneous) ideas that are not so much based of the hardware innovation:

• Laws that require users have ideal control over privacy issues (hopefully!)
• Programmable operating systems on any device with good scurity
• Redundant storage on different locations that “logically cloud together” in a personal and searchable environment
• Working culture that permits more work “on the road” as before (specifically regarding the social aspects involved in this)
• Affordable plans for wireless connectivy and low-priced roaming
• Architectural advances that integrate media and new display/projection technologies into the interior environments