Sometimes I see something that makes me think: “This is what the future will be like.” Usually it’s not something world-shattering, but something very small.
This dashboard widget tracks the status of an order with the Apple store. How many days until it will be shipped? How many days until it will arrive?
In the future, you will have something like this for everything that
- is going to happen in the next few days,
- you don’t want to forget about completely, and
- doesn’t require any action from you.
Because one of the great challenges in human-computer interaction these days is the management of attention.
On an unrelated note, this widget makes me want to buy something from the Apple store just to see it in action.