<story><title>SerenityOS demo at Handmade Seattle 2021 [video]</title><url>https://media.handmade-seattle.com/serenityos/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>akling</author><text>&amp;gt;I&amp;#x27;d love to see some innovation with the old school design ethos too; maybe there are even better ways of displaying controls? Or maybe a new way to think about controls that weren&amp;#x27;t around back then.&lt;p&gt;Oh yeah, this is something we&amp;#x27;ve been exploring (carefully) with SerenityOS! There&amp;#x27;s obviously been a lot of good UI&amp;#x2F;UX innovations since the late 90s, and it&amp;#x27;s super interesting to look for ways to integrate them with the classic aesthetics.&lt;p&gt;As an example, we use breadcrumb bars in our file manager, to display the current directory as a part of separately interactive segments.&lt;p&gt;And we also have &amp;quot;Assistant&amp;quot; which works similarly to macOS Spotlight, for fast access to a range of data providers.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m sure there are many similar concepts we have yet to discover :)</text></item><item><author>prohobo</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been thinking recently that Windows 95&amp;#x2F;98&amp;#x2F;2000 had better UX than you can find nowadays on most websites, and while not &amp;quot;beautiful&amp;quot;, it was still aesthetic.&lt;p&gt;That + a good console? Great idea. I&amp;#x27;d love to see some innovation with the old school design ethos too; maybe there are even better ways of displaying controls? Or maybe a new way to think about controls that weren&amp;#x27;t around back then.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DragonL80</author><text>@akling, I want to take a moment to comment just how amazing recovery can be. As someone who&amp;#x27;s suffered some similar substance issues. Thank you for being a great example of just how amazing of a place the mind can be when its trained onto something that gives us meaning and direction. I am in sheer awe of what you&amp;#x27;ve created. Its incredibly powerful but yet so simple its staggering. I am so following the progress of SerenityOS (i get the name too, btw) and look forward to seeing great things come of it and from you.</text></comment>
<story><title>SerenityOS demo at Handmade Seattle 2021 [video]</title><url>https://media.handmade-seattle.com/serenityos/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>akling</author><text>&amp;gt;I&amp;#x27;d love to see some innovation with the old school design ethos too; maybe there are even better ways of displaying controls? Or maybe a new way to think about controls that weren&amp;#x27;t around back then.&lt;p&gt;Oh yeah, this is something we&amp;#x27;ve been exploring (carefully) with SerenityOS! There&amp;#x27;s obviously been a lot of good UI&amp;#x2F;UX innovations since the late 90s, and it&amp;#x27;s super interesting to look for ways to integrate them with the classic aesthetics.&lt;p&gt;As an example, we use breadcrumb bars in our file manager, to display the current directory as a part of separately interactive segments.&lt;p&gt;And we also have &amp;quot;Assistant&amp;quot; which works similarly to macOS Spotlight, for fast access to a range of data providers.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m sure there are many similar concepts we have yet to discover :)</text></item><item><author>prohobo</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been thinking recently that Windows 95&amp;#x2F;98&amp;#x2F;2000 had better UX than you can find nowadays on most websites, and while not &amp;quot;beautiful&amp;quot;, it was still aesthetic.&lt;p&gt;That + a good console? Great idea. I&amp;#x27;d love to see some innovation with the old school design ethos too; maybe there are even better ways of displaying controls? Or maybe a new way to think about controls that weren&amp;#x27;t around back then.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>codetrotter</author><text>Did you look into Neumorphism?&lt;p&gt;It’s a recent thing, but in a way it is a callback to making it more obvious what is interactible and not.&lt;p&gt;For a while, quite recently, it seemed to be catching on. But then it didn’t really catch on like.&lt;p&gt;But I think SerenityOS with a Neumorphism style would be a really interesting experiment.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;uxdesign.cc&amp;#x2F;neumorphism-in-user-interfaces-b47cef3bf3a6&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;uxdesign.cc&amp;#x2F;neumorphism-in-user-interfaces-b47cef3bf...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>