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Amazing Film/TV GUI's?

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  • 07-11-2013 3:12am
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    nameisme
    Registered Users Posts: 9 ✭


    Hi, I'm talking about the likes of MI6's makeshift HQ in Skyfall, all those scrolling screens and data constantly flowing - how designs them or what they use in NCIS Los Angeles? I would love to design some sort of program with similar looking GUI's but I can't really find much online for inspiration.

    Has anyone any links to amazing looking GUI's please?

    LIKE: http://www.pushing-pixels.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/skyfall-map.jpg


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    cormee
    Registered Users Posts: 1,801 ✭✭✭cormee


    nameisme wrote: »
    Hi, I'm talking about the likes of MI6's makeshift HQ in Skyfall, all those scrolling screens and data constantly flowing - how designs them or what they use in NCIS Los Angeles? I would love to design some sort of program with similar looking GUI's but I can't really find much online for inspiration.

    Has anyone any links to amazing looking GUI's please?

    LIKE: http://www.pushing-pixels.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/skyfall-map.jpg

    They may look neat but I'd say from a UI/UX point of view they're bloody awful. I'd be fired if I produced something like that.


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    Graham
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 17,642 Mod ✭✭✭✭Graham


    cormee wrote: »
    They may look neat but I'd say from a UI/UX point of view they're bloody awful. I'd be fired if I produced something like that.

    A UI like that would be perfect for managing one of those enormous SuperComputers with millions of flashing lights and spinning tape reels. :D


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    nameisme
    Registered Users Posts: 9 ✭nameisme


    Yeah you're both right, but have you any idea regarding my question please?


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    chakotha
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    Sumptious!


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    Trojan
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    They can be amazingly beautiful, and totally unusable.

    Check out Mark Coleran, he designed (or produced) a tonne of them.

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    miralize
    Registered Users Posts: 6,207 ✭✭✭miralize


    Outer glow on all the things!


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    cormee
    Registered Users Posts: 1,801 ✭✭✭cormee


    chakotha wrote: »
    Sumptious!

    Coming up with a design like that is like doing the Times crossword with any letters you like.

    If he/she had come up with a design like that after reading use case(s) it would be impressive (even though learnability and accessibility don't seem to have been a priority.) But I think in this case it's more of a showcase for the designers Illustrator/Photoshop skills, than it is an exercise in UI design.

    OP - Google the KISS principle.


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    Graham
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 17,642 Mod ✭✭✭✭Graham


    Given that the OP is considering how the UI is going to look before there's even an idea for a concept product I don't think the KISS principle is going to help. :pac:


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