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   The inscrutable User Interface

   

   AC, Jul 31st, 2004 @ 9:38am

   
   

   Quoting from the original article: “In every case, the standalone device drawn into the black hole of convergence is, at heart, a system-on-chip with a control CPU, often a specialized DSP core, keyboard input and both graphic and audio output.” “Two electronic gizmos in a package are better than one, as long as the form factor doesn't get out of control or the user interface become inscrutable.” The essential fact is that it is the user interface that defines these devices. It’s the UI’s physical form that differentiates one device from another. The issue becomes how to pack all these feature sets into one device without requiring a headache-inducing array of tiny buttons, the presence of which would quickly make “the user interface become inscrutable” as the article suggests.

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