My daughter is passionate for drawing and animation. For the holidays I bought a happy high rated entertainment programme and a bamboo drawing board for our computers.
She played with them for less than an hour and frustrated gave up. It was too much to learn, animate objects only. Meanwhile she spent plenty of time on a $20 Nintendo DS game about the draw. She could make movies? No Could to bring their cartoon characters to life? No. But…She can use. More specifically, she could run things without a tutorial or create statements.
It was easy.
Me, this is the promise of natural user interface (NUI): ease of use. Hard-core designers do much more inventive thing when it comes, NUI (such as Kinect is), but what I am getting at is the heart of the matter: you provide something master, can easily quickly with something to produce, and even enjoy.
If you NUI (noo-EE) is over where and what cool NUI are things now (except Kinect) available to curious, I invite to check out -and follow Sie--Steve Clayton's blog, Next at Microsoft. Steve has a unique vantage point and more importantly, the passion behind the gobbledygook NUI to get buzz and connect it with real computing. He is also a lot of fun to read, I mean, I think, he has a point, to a 234-inch touch screen in his living room.
--Doug Thomas
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