I want to make digital computing more analog, modernization of interface design I think has lead to this pattern which makes your brain interpret it as a seperate world, one which your brain rewires to and forgets that there is a reality. Modern interfaces more and more are not based on real world equivalencies, while it allows for getting really quick at using tech, in my opinion it's lifeless and poisonous to the conscious thought. I want to make things more tactile, analogous to the physical world, I want mechanical clicks, design that brings back the fact that the world is a real place and every moment you're on a screen is a moment taken away from reality. I think people who've grown up attached to their screens solely with this modern flat way of seeing things probably dont even know how to use some of the physical equivalents of the programs they use on their phone, so instead of skeuomorphism being used to 'ease the transition into technology' we can use it to ease the transition back into reality. The modern hyper-efficiency and ever increasing abstractness in UI isn't what I want to build.
@angelthorns
Hmm. There should be a physical Mastodon client with buttons (or ideally switches, though I don't know how that would work) for boost, favourite, bookmark and follow actions and a crank (a la the PlayDate) for scrolling! Wait, maybe that should just be done on a PlayDate?