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Smash­ing Mag­a­zine has a round up of the lat­est think­ing on and pro­to­types for new user inter­faces. Some feel way out there (along with rocket boots and meals in pill form) oth­ers closer to home.

For me, the more suc­cess­ful inter­faces these days are the ones that min­imise the role of the device – that quite lit­er­ally nar­row the gap between the user and the infor­ma­tion they need. Adap­tive Path’s Aurora inter­face, part of an ini­tia­tive by Mozilla Labs, does this quite well in the way it uses rel­a­tive size and perspective/depth to show the most appro­pri­ate infor­ma­tion. How­ever, the stack­ing of infor­ma­tion around the frame and the new selec­tion tool feel too rooted in the old desk­top and mouse metaphor to really move things forward.

More inter­est­ing to me is the book­mark­ing and his­tory con­cept – also on the Mozilla page. The inclu­sion of con­text ele­ments to jog your mem­ory is inspired and the time­line design is very pretty.

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