This looks a lot like "Google Inbox: The OS" to me. This context-based actions were really cool in Inbox, and it's a shame they've ditched it, but a whole OS operated like that doesn't sound too...
This looks a lot like "Google Inbox: The OS" to me. This context-based actions were really cool in Inbox, and it's a shame they've ditched it, but a whole OS operated like that doesn't sound too good. Maybe for a very non-tech person? The notion of "no filesystem or folders" isn't really attractive, because there would still be both the filesystem and folders, it's just going to all be stonewalled from the user, and I really hate when software does this kind of stuff. On the other hand, the flow sounds really cool, and I'd be happy to see this as a desktop application
This concept is of a reimagined operating system, built to be fluid, intuitive and focused on the task at hand instead of being based on the design of existing OSes. It attempts to get rid of...
This concept is of a reimagined operating system, built to be fluid, intuitive and focused on the task at hand instead of being based on the design of existing OSes. It attempts to get rid of distractions and interruptions present in current systems:
My breakthrough came when I realized that I had been asking all the wrong questions. I had spent months trying to invent new ways to navigate existing systems — but what if those systems were fundamentally flawed? What if the experience of Mercury required a radical re-invention of everything I had been taking for granted?
I quite like the look of this and if it exists for real some day I'd quite like to give it a try. Do you think desktop operating systems are so flawed that something like this is needed or do you like the power and flexibility that comes with them?
I really like the power and flexibility that we get with the current paradigm of computer interaction. People who want a high level, abstracted experience can get it to a pretty significant extent...
Do you think desktop operating systems are so flawed that something like this is needed or do you like the power and flexibility that comes with them?
I really like the power and flexibility that we get with the current paradigm of computer interaction. People who want a high level, abstracted experience can get it to a pretty significant extent in MacOS or Windows 10, but people who want to have low-level control still have it available to them on those OSes and on the BSDs or Linux distros.
I could be totally off in this feeling, but when I look at the concepts for Mercury, I get the feeling that it would be abstracted to an extent that would actually be unhelpful. As freeing as the idea of "Modules" seems, they feel like they would be somewhat confining. Furthermore (and in my opinion, more importantly), Mercury seems like it would require a really high level of computer intelligence in order to manage its basic functions, and I wonder if "power users" would have any real ability to get in and understand what was going on or be able to change it.
This looks a lot like "Google Inbox: The OS" to me. This context-based actions were really cool in Inbox, and it's a shame they've ditched it, but a whole OS operated like that doesn't sound too good. Maybe for a very non-tech person? The notion of "no filesystem or folders" isn't really attractive, because there would still be both the filesystem and folders, it's just going to all be stonewalled from the user, and I really hate when software does this kind of stuff. On the other hand, the flow sounds really cool, and I'd be happy to see this as a desktop application
This concept is of a reimagined operating system, built to be fluid, intuitive and focused on the task at hand instead of being based on the design of existing OSes. It attempts to get rid of distractions and interruptions present in current systems:
The post link takes you to the website, but a more in-depth explanation of the motivations behind the project and what it achieves are available in this post: https://uxdesign.cc/introducing-mercury-os-f4de45a04289
I quite like the look of this and if it exists for real some day I'd quite like to give it a try. Do you think desktop operating systems are so flawed that something like this is needed or do you like the power and flexibility that comes with them?
I really like the power and flexibility that we get with the current paradigm of computer interaction. People who want a high level, abstracted experience can get it to a pretty significant extent in MacOS or Windows 10, but people who want to have low-level control still have it available to them on those OSes and on the BSDs or Linux distros.
I could be totally off in this feeling, but when I look at the concepts for Mercury, I get the feeling that it would be abstracted to an extent that would actually be unhelpful. As freeing as the idea of "Modules" seems, they feel like they would be somewhat confining. Furthermore (and in my opinion, more importantly), Mercury seems like it would require a really high level of computer intelligence in order to manage its basic functions, and I wonder if "power users" would have any real ability to get in and understand what was going on or be able to change it.