With all the talk at this year’s CES about Natural User Interfaces, Apple’s iPhone, Magic Mouse and the seemingly recent mass adaptation of multi-touch interfaces, it might be time that the computer mouse finally comes to it’s demise. After all even the most environmentally protected field mice only live to be 4 years old. The personal computer’s mouse has had a long and glorious life and may have an even shorter life span with the launch of technological predators that have appeared.
So is this the year that the computer mouse dies? It makes me wonder how these technological advances in touch screens will effect user interfaces, the design of them and how people will adapt to the emerging technologies.
What will become of the GUI and are designers incorporating new usability into the designs in which they create?