Zero UI and our screen-less future

Zero UI?focuses on an interface that cannot be clicked or tapped. It uses much more natural interfaces such as voice and artificial intelligence.?Zero UI focuses more on the concept of invisible interfaces. Zero UI is simply a smaller branch of training computers to understand us on the terms we define rather than vice versa.

A world controlled by devices that employ zero UI may be hard to imagine. But it will soon evolve to an environment where all devices respond to us in real time by simply tracking our gestures and our speech.

Zero UI will evolve through the use of wearables, data analytics, sensors, and a number of other complex concepts. In fact, screenless interface will not be limited just to the mobiles we hold in our hand. It can be trained to be used at home, at our workplaces, in our cars, the possibilities are endless.

Some objectives that Zero UI needs to attain

• Reducing time spent on devices and machines
• Personalizing every user-machine interaction
• Making transactions rid of distance and time factors
• Human – Machine interface becomes more predictive
• End screen based interface completely
• Increase the value a design process delivers to a business manifold times
• Provide more human manifestation in future designs

The way I perceive the ZERO UI process to move forward. First would be the basic development of interaction. Presently we communicate with devices through gestural, voice and text based means

Gestural Interfaces?which uses sensors to identify movements, change in body temperature, retinal dilation, face mapping (the best example and applicable example of face mapping has been provided in I-phone X) etc. Project Soli or X-box Kinect are also good examples

Voice Interfaces?used in Voice Recognition software and many mobile and android applications. IOS Siri (Apple IN) is one good example of such interface. Amazon Echo is also one good example.

Messaging Interfaces

Designs like Google assistant and chatbots helps you text any query and get response just like you get from another human. According to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, the future of devices could be, well, the end of screen devices.

The goal of most digital products is they become indispensable in daily life. Great products simplify complex tasks and require less energy from the user to accomplish a given task, or empowers the user to do something they could not otherwise accomplish without the assistance of the software. Great software takes complexity, and gives it the illusion of simplicity.? The Future looks exciting.

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