Post-Interface
Design.
What should software do when it understands what we mean?
Abstract
Post-Interface Design explores a shift from operating software to expressing intention. It asks how intelligent systems might take on coordination, leaving more attention for human judgment and creativity.
The design work moves into behavior: when to act, when to ask, how to communicate uncertainty, and how to recover. This ambition also raises questions about privacy, accessibility, and agency. Useful outcomes matter alongside the ability to understand, override, or leave a system.
Three design questions
What deserves attention?
Show information when it helps. Fewer interruptions should come from dependable behavior, with failures still visible.
Where does agency live?
Context can reduce repeated instructions. Clarification, consent, and manual control keep that convenience accountable.
What counts as success?
Evaluate outcomes, effort, and reliability. Time spent in an interface is an incomplete measure of its value.
A concept in motion
I built this prototype to make the idea tangible: gesture brings a calendar or grocery list into view, and voice changes what is on the list.
Gesture brings information into view. Voice shapes the task. A working exploration of the manifesto.
Read transcript and visual description
A webcam view tracks Andrea’s hand. Gestures bring contextual information into view, first a calendar and then a grocery list.
Voice: “Add coffee.” “Add chicken.” “Remove milk.” The list updates with each request.
Another gesture brings up nearby grocery shops. Andrea says, “Okay.” The prototype displays an action confirmation for the selected shop. This is a concept demonstration of the interaction.
From writing to building
Putting the questions
into practice.
Exocor is my next step: an open-source React and TypeScript SDK that connects typed, voice, gaze, and gesture input to actions inside existing applications. The case study follows the interaction model, clarification states, and execution controls behind an early working release.
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