The Sound of Software | !Boring Software

Sound can communicate the quality of an action just as powerfully as any visuals.

Interface design for creative, thinking work is particularly important for software, which is a medium that has few true constraints. The medium of canvas or photography constrains output to two dimensions of shape and color. Recorded audio is a stream of sounds, writing is a stream of words. But software itself? It can take any perceptual form we ... See more

You’ve felt this, right? Whenever we sit down to create something digital, we now have nigh-infinite storage space, massive amounts of processing power, free trial-periods for design software, and more. It leads to the “paradox of choice”: We wind up feeling not creatively free, but creatively  stuck.  When you have too many options it’s

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if software is to have soul, it must feel more like the world around it. Which is the biggest clue of all that feeling is what’s missing from today’s software. Because the value of the tools, objects, and artworks that we as humans have surrounded ourselves with for thousands of years goes so far beyond their functionality. In many ways, their prim... See more

Modern software’s humdrum lack of identity has resulted in users craving more interesting, opinionated tools, tools that feel like us — or a better, more interesting, wackier version of us.