Show HN: An experimental, keyboard-first user interface

263 点作者 dschramm大约 5 年前

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DavidVoid大约 5 年前

Always good to see companies put some effort into good keyboard navigation!If you want a keyboard-first interface for your web browser I can recommend Vimium (which I'm sure a lot of you have already heard of). I'm not actually a Vim user (at least not yet), but I rely pretty heavily on Vimium's shortcuts in Firefox nowadays. I started using it when I had a school-provided laptop which had an awful trackpad which was way too slow and annoying to use for my taste.Vimium: <a href="https://vimium.github.io/" rel="nofollow">https://vimium.github.io/</a>Screenshot of shortcuts in Vimium: <a href="https://i.imgur.com/x1Y7OvQ.png" rel="nofollow">https://i.imgur.com/x1Y7OvQ.png</a>EDIT: I almost forgot to mention my favorite feature (which is not limited to Vimium).Custom search engines are great! If I want to go to the Wikipedia page on aviation then I can just press Shift+o and type w aviation and it will immediately open that Wikpedia page in a new tab.The other search engines I frequently use are: google translate, thesaurus (synonyms), and justwatch (to see if/where a show/movie is available in my country).

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Avamander大约 5 年前

I suspect most people here are forgetting that the average person types slower and finds keys slower than they can point-and-click, because they can't touch type. Keyboard-first user interface is definitely not an improvement if the same thing can't be done with a mouse in a reasonable time.

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marcosdumay大约 5 年前

Web sites tend to be created for novice users, because users come from everywhere all the time, and tend to not stick around for long enough to get competent on your design. (Really, on how many sites can a user get competent?)I guess it's time to reexamine the reach of assumption, but I'm sure it will stand correct more often than wrong.

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philjohn大约 5 年前

I worked for a company that made software for libraries (public and academic). It evolved over many years, starting off as a terminal session onto a mainframe.The newer windows version still kept every single keyboard shortcut, because it turns out once you know the shortcuts, it's so much faster than pointing and clicking.

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pulkas大约 5 年前

I think bloomberg terminal's UI is the best keyboard centiric UI ever.<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE8HiHZcgEE" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE8HiHZcgEE</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODgs0eWAIKc" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODgs0eWAIKc</a>

httpsterio大约 5 年前

I like the idea and I would use apps like this in my own personal life, but as a UX designer this is also a super horrible experience if you don't give any affordance in the UI to the user indicating what type of action they can take.

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crocodiletears大约 5 年前

This interaction model looks a lot like a hybrid between Blender's tool search, and FEMA.gov's site navbar, both being among my favorite UI elements floating around cyberspace. I don't have anything to criticize here, or any insight to add. I'm honestly just thrilled that this concept of a hybrid command-line is being explored more thoroughly.

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dschramm大约 5 年前

Hello HN!We just rolled out this little MVP for a new user interface for our knowledge base software.I would love to hear what you think about it!Cheers, Daniel

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eyelidlessness大约 5 年前

For (relevant) prior art, see Notational Velocity (which appears to have successors in various states, nvAlt and nvUltra).There's also Alfred, Quicksilver and Enso

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rplnt大约 5 年前

Check out Vivaldi browser. I find it unusable due to its performance, but they do some interesting stuff.<a href="https://help.vivaldi.com/article/quick-commands/" rel="nofollow">https://help.vivaldi.com/article/quick-commands/</a>Also, classic Opera had single key page navigation (and loads and loads of shortcuts).<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111014104313/http://help.opera.com/Windows/9.50/en/keyboard.html#single-key" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20111014104313/http://help.opera...</a>

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wainstead大约 5 年前

I used ratpoison for a while on one of my Linux boxes and much liked it.> The name "ratpoison" reflects its major design goal: it lets the user manage application windows without using a mouse. Unlike other tiling window managers like Ion, ratpoison completely ignores the mouse (or "rat"), and avoids window decorations as much as possible. The default keybindings are specifically designed to not conflict with Emacs.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratpoison" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratpoison</a>

notRobot大约 5 年前

Relatedly, there's nothing I hate more than new keyboards and laptops not including the "menu key", which has the same action as a right-click.<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menu_key" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menu_key</a>I have a hard time living without it.

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Groxx大约 5 年前

Seems we might be giving it the hug of death. In case it renders weird / 503s: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200320200023/https://emvi.com/blog/a-new-experimental-user-interface-QMZgmZG1L5" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20200320200023/https://emvi.com/...</a>

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zzo38computer大约 5 年前

I think the solution should be to use the "accesskey" attribute. Unfortunately, not enough web page writers use it.

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dariusj18大约 5 年前

Let's bring back gopher and use this as an interface.

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chickenpotpie大约 5 年前

I've had an idea for a while now to have a website that only has a text input like this to allow simultaneously building a website and a voice assistant (Alexa/Google Home) plugin. The development is much faster because it's the same back end for both apps, gives a standardized UI, and the auto fill on the website teaches what is possible on the voice assistant.

nemoniac大约 5 年前

An excellent keyboard-first interface exists already. It's called Emacs. Give it a chance. It might surprise you.

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dangoor大约 5 年前

This gave me a sense of deja vu. A couple of weeks ago, there was repl.it's "graphical command line": <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22498665" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22498665</a>

staplers大约 5 年前

Looks like Notion for purist developers.<a href="https://www.notion.so/" rel="nofollow">https://www.notion.so/</a>

RMPR大约 5 年前

I absolutely like this, being a keyboard centered user, I like to see things making my life a lot easier.

keenmaster大约 5 年前

I could see this getting acquired to enhance Microsoft’s Cortana or Apple’s Siri and Spotlight.

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p2t2p大约 5 年前