The Interface is, quite literally, where people and technology meet.

I’ll be bringing it up for a while here on this blog, and so for the time being, I have gone ahead and given it a capital I. It’s that important.

Soon, I’ll start to waste some pixels on the Humane Interface, and the essentials of HID — Human Interface Design, but right now, let me point out that there is a second side to the Interface — the technology (the one that is coming into contact with the human…). Before we get too digital or electronic here… keep in mind that technology is not necessarily animated and battery powered. It’s any application of knowledge (science), and so the Interface is not always a blinking button or LCD screen.

Interfaces have been with us since the dawn of human memory, in one form or another. (Picture the caveman refining the smoother, tapered handle for his club.)

So, now, with that in mind, here’s the natural comedy that emerges when we consider users’ modern-day frustrations with Interface design through the lens of a slightly older generation and its struggles with the newfangled Interface of the day: Gutenberg offers In your home support - on Bore Me

(Thanks to the Zinks for the link!)

Update Apr 6 There’s another version of this clip posted here with a few extra seconds of footage and a little bit of a different translation (though it’s a little darker).