Visualize anything as anything else
UI design is makeup for data. Content (data) is shown in many different sizes and shapes, but it tends to be comprised of the same primitives: Text, images, videos. Not much else.
It would be a fascinating experiment to be able to visualize data from one app in the form of another. View your YouTube recommendations in the Vimeo site. View your X (previously Twitter) feed in the Facebook interface. Instagram feed as Cover Flow. (this last one is worth actually prototyping)
This idea contains the whisperings of Data Portability; the concept that users shouldn't have their data locked into a platform, but that their data should be portable and could be plopped into other tools.
Further yet, such portability across different "lenses" could allow us to converge on some universal forms that are the best of the best.
Hopefully the future involves our user-data being liberated from interfaces (no matter how good they are, as many tend on the less-good side of the spectrum) and given to users who can customize how their data is viewed with ease.
UI design is makeup for data. Content (data) is shown in many different sizes and shapes, but it tends to be comprised of the same primitives: Text, images, videos. Not much else.
It would be a fascinating experiment to be able to visualize data from one app in the form of another. View your YouTube recommendations in the Vimeo site. View your X (previously Twitter) feed in the Facebook interface. Instagram feed as Cover Flow. (this last one is worth actually prototyping)
This idea contains the whisperings of Data Portability; the concept that users shouldn't have their data locked into a platform, but that their data should be portable and could be plopped into other tools.
Further yet, such portability across different "lenses" could allow us to converge on some universal forms that are the best of the best.
Hopefully the future involves our user-data being liberated from interfaces (no matter how good they are, as many tend on the less-good side of the spectrum) and given to users who can customize how their data is viewed with ease.
UI design is makeup for data. Content (data) is shown in many different sizes and shapes, but it tends to be comprised of the same primitives: Text, images, videos. Not much else.
It would be a fascinating experiment to be able to visualize data from one app in the form of another. View your YouTube recommendations in the Vimeo site. View your X (previously Twitter) feed in the Facebook interface. Instagram feed as Cover Flow. (this last one is worth actually prototyping)
This idea contains the whisperings of Data Portability; the concept that users shouldn't have their data locked into a platform, but that their data should be portable and could be plopped into other tools.
Further yet, such portability across different "lenses" could allow us to converge on some universal forms that are the best of the best.
Hopefully the future involves our user-data being liberated from interfaces (no matter how good they are, as many tend on the less-good side of the spectrum) and given to users who can customize how their data is viewed with ease.