Don’t rush to bury touchscreens

We will still need them for some time

We will still need them for some time

This post has been inspired by an article called “The end of screen-based interfaces”, in which the author, Josep Ferrer, insists that a screen is not the best solution to interact with a device and that we use them only until a decent alternative solution emerges. He believes in Zero-UI, a user experience approach in which a user doesn’t need to make unnatural gestures, such as touching a screen. If you are Amazon Echo or Siri user, you already know what it means.

On the one hand, user interfaces usually evolve from very complicated to user-friendly. Both technological development and competition force the business to make user-device interaction more comfortable. In my childhood, I played with brown cards my mom brought from her work. They were rectangular paper cards, and one angle was cut (they looked similar to modern sim cards), and they were perforated in some places. They were used to input data into the computers of the era. Then, in school…