Fascinated by UIs that accidentally amass memories. One of them is the wi-fi “preferred networks” pane – unexpected reminders of business trips, vacations, accidental detours, once frequented and now closed cafés.pic.twitter.com/r137dZI0r8
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I like that both of these places require you to coax your memory a bit to remember. What else like this is out there?
Ah, that’s a good one. For me, it also doubles as a list of people I love (and sometimes send gifts to).https://twitter.com/garius/status/996056991410868224 …
(Just like recommendation systems some of them can be painful, reminding of people, places, or events you’d rather not remember. It feels worth thinking about non-obvious aspects like these as designers.)
Ah, yes, that’s a good one! Definitely the weather app.https://twitter.com/staticsteven/status/996063836544221185 …
Ah, the last one here is so interesting. You see the last thing you talked about, sometimes unresolved, often not worth addressing – but the tricky part is once you message again, the other person will see it, too.https://twitter.com/kevintwohy/status/996077298402168833?s=21 …
Another good example that all of these UIs are used by people and often acquire emotional layers: https://twitter.com/kotorih50/status/996106359207792640?s=21 …
This is a good one. The purpose of starring on Maps might be often taking a note for the future – but the side effect is that those places starred and already visited often linger forever.https://twitter.com/danburzo/status/996106416707506178?s=21 …
Okay, this one is simply poetry.https://twitter.com/halkyardo/status/996122230386982912?s=21 …
Oh, I haven’t seen that avatar UI pattern before. On my first iMac, the Photo Booth app served a similar purpose – a collection of ad hoc portraits taken on average half a year apart, documenting me getting older.https://twitter.com/chrismessina/status/996121373314461698?s=21 …
Okay, whoa. Talk about a plot twist!!! https://twitter.com/mathowie/status/996127484222427136 …
I feel that just like it’s easier to see changes in people we don’t see very often – rather than in people we hang out with all the time – stateful machines or software used infrequently can involuntarily portion our lives into arbitrary chapters.https://twitter.com/halkyardo/status/996131392655413249 …
Another beautiful example:https://twitter.com/gingerbeardman/status/996166128786341889 …
iTunes, whose tired, behemoth-like UI carries the weight not just of every Apple music endeavour starting with the first iPod, but even the souls of abandoned iOS apps.https://twitter.com/warpling/status/996174034101514242?s=21 …
My Gmail Drafts is half blank pages created by mistake, and half really hard emails that I never could get quite right. Sometimes a draft is just the name of a friend next to a past date, and that’s enough to remember what was it meant to be about.https://twitter.com/blackjohnm/status/996333029659377664 …
Thank you for sharing this, I hope it’s okay to quote tweet it into the main thread:https://twitter.com/scottdotjs/status/996384219646525440 …
As long as we’re going technical, for me it’s git branch names – filling up with abandoned projects and explorations, made harder to recognize by the fact that my branch names are sometimes vague words like “test” or “whatever”.https://twitter.com/adrianholovaty/status/996268542365487104 …
Yes, yes! Compared to desktop, Chrome and Safari on iPhone make it much harder to realize many tabs are open and don’t get slower because of them; I myself have hundreds of accidental tabs between the two, the earliest ones going back many years.https://twitter.com/encorestage/status/996388225844363264 …
This is a fascinating interaction.https://twitter.com/OutOfElement_i/status/996389698699513856 …
Open Recent in any application you don’t use very often. My computer is relatively new, but even then here’s Sketch, reminding me of a project from over a year ago.pic.twitter.com/PW6ph9oE94
Whoa, this thread has been written up by both @jkottke and @nickheer on their respective wonderful blogs, with even more examples within:
1. https://kottke.org/18/05/old-memories-accidentally-trapped-in-amber-by-our-digital-devices …
2. https://pxlnv.com/linklog/uis-that-amass-memories/ …
This, this, this, yes: https://twitter.com/atarrant/status/996423832910020608?s=21 …
(This, for example, is me standing in front of a construction site in Tokyo in February – doubly beautiful since my mom tells me I used to be obsessed with construction sites when I was very little in Poland, something I personally have no recollection of.)pic.twitter.com/41TukMKOPK
A few people mentioned Bluetooth speaker or peripherals pairings: https://twitter.com/regolithlibby/status/996444260453961728 …
Great example of an unexpected interaction of two different components. “The photos are forgotten are until you accidentally use spotlight to load Photo Booth instead of iPhoto!”https://twitter.com/keithahern/status/996457932475846656 …
I wonder whether there has ever been a piece of software that understood that it’s been offline for multiple years (e.g. its programmers thought about this situation).https://twitter.com/kimaboe/status/996732810584043520 …
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