Plants

To plant is to put in place – control. Wander off the beaten path into wilderness, and plants reveal their sentience. In the kingdom of living beings, they are independent from us. Beauty lies in their province. How might our interfaces exhibit such qualities of splendor: autonomy, wildness and variance?
Rama Chorpash

Incredible capabilites

A “perfect interface” would be one that effectively taps into the incredible capabilities people have for processing natural scenes. For example trees are incredibly complex, yet their structure is easily discernable.

I’m not saying that we should slavishly copy nature and make every interface look like a landscape. But if we look at the specific mechanisms that humans use to extract information from the scenes we were evolved to understand, we may be able to tune our interface techniques to show us things in the way we can grasp them most easily.

For instance, fruits ripen along a green-yellow-red spectrum–spanning the most recently acquired color channel (green to red) that our eyes use to encode color. We could use this deeply-wired continuum in an inventory system to show maturing, ready-to-sell stock, as red. This would make it stand out, as well as unconsciously saying “ripe & ready to pick.”
Brad Paley