Initial Research

For the beginning of this research, it would be appropriate to concentrate on theories and 'movements' of interfaces, rather than actual implementations.

Areas discussed include:

• Scale (how physical interfaces are reducing in size)
• Simplification (how interfaces are having to be simplified to become more streamlined)
• Modularity (how interfaces are becoming sectioned and categorised within themselves)
• Graphics (how interfaces, and particularly virtual or screen interfaces, are including more and more graphics and icons/symbols)

It would be a good start to see how these areas are being implemented in today's interfaces, and look at what they evolved from. I will also only focus on the interfaces of electronics, the area that I am interested in.