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All the touch-screens I’ve ever used are flat.

But why? Sure it’s smooth and sexy and all minority report like, but nothing in real life is smooth and sexy. Unless it’s a hot chick, but how often do they come along wanting you to press their start menu?

So if interfaces are moving away from the generic keyboard & mouse and into touch-screens. Should we be thinking a bit past the iPhone? The world around us isn’t flat, so what extra would we learn from different shapes & sizes?

What about an iPad with different textures..

• rough
• abrasive
• smooth
• bumpy
• sharp!
• dusty

What about shapes jutting out of the interface? Maybe a pyramid shape rising out the middle? Dimples?

Then what about a multitude of touch screens, maybe a few spread around? Some interact with each other and some by default won’t.

That’s a whole load closer to the world around us, textured, bumpy and unknown quantities…

[insert closing joke how this is much more like the girls I know...]

[prepare for life of solitude 'cos no more girls will ever talk to you again]

This post is tagged bumpy, shapes, textures, touchscreens