10 Futuristic User Interfaces. Advertisement Good user interfaces are crucial for good user experience.
It doesn’t matter how good a technology is — if we, designers, don’t manage to make user interface as intuitive and attractive as possible, the technology will hardly reach a breakthrough. To gain the interest in a new product or technology, users need to understand its advantages or find themselves impressed or involved. Year's 10 Best Application UIs (Jakob Nielsen's Alertb. The Rise of Contextual User Interfaces. Web 2.0 has brought many wonderful innovations and ideas to the Internet.
We can no longer imagine the web without a social dimension, and we can no longer imagine an online world that is read-only - it is now a read/write web full of user-generated content. But there is another fairly recent innovation, which might have just as profound implications. We're speaking of the contextual user interface. Even five years ago we lived in the boxed world of Windows-dominated UIs. There were standard UI elements - menus, tabs, combo boxes, tables - and every single desktop application was full of these elements and nothing else.