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Novel User Interface Design: Special Projects’ Experimental “Magic UX” System

London-based product design firm Special Projects has developed an experimental phone UI that’s simultaneously forward- and backward-looking. I mean that figuratively, not literally. The designers focused on the non-intuitive nature of switching between apps, and came up with this Magic UX alternative:

On the one hand it’s undeniably clever. On the other hand, technology has reached the point where I can no longer tell if we’re moving forwards or backwards.