Fuguo's
Media Space

Pre-Internet age UI design, bootup screen imitating a CRT style screen. Users can only interact with the program by typing any of the available commands.

Pre-Internet age UI design, frame 2. Access list of available commands via 'list' command.

Pre-Internet age UI design, frame 3. Read news of the year by typing 'news' command.

Pre-Internet age UI design, frame 4. In the calendar, player will be able to change the year to previous or next, moving back and forth in time.

1990s UI design, blue screen boot up.

1990s UI design, adopting the UI styles of early browsers and online services. Black, white, and grey are most commonly seen in these early browsers.

UI design for 1995. Microsoft Bob was a short-lived program with a colorful pixelated UI that intended to help first-time computer users familiarize themselves with computer functions. While it was a commercial failure, I decided to include this interface in my game to show the vitality, messiness, and bravery of the 1990s' experiments with the Internet.

UI design for 1995, with marks of hidden tabs. When player flips the calendar to 1995, the interface will turn into the Microsoft Bob version, with function tabs hidden in the colorful scene.

UI design for the 2000s, frame 1. Stepping into the 2000s, more people have PCs at home, and more experiments are happening on the web. This UI adopts Windows XP style, as this is a classic and memorable OS design among people I interviewed. This UI will use Tahoma, the same typeface as Windows XP's.

UI design for the 2000s, frame 2. Some characteristics of websites at that time are: 1) neon-color text accompanied with highlight, 2) images and other multimedia content became available on webpages together with text, and 3) tile layout of images as website background.

UI design for the 2000s, frame 3. Player needs to find the calendar in the UI to move back and forth in time.

UI design for the 2010s. In the 2010s, Internet culture quickly evolves. Memories of that time include memes, slang, bright colors, pixel art, low-quality images, and more. As for web design, many websites preferred text and images in grid layout with borders, which make a webpage look like a digital copy of newspaper. Also, Flash was applied almost everywhere on the Internet for interactive content creation display.

UI design for the 2020s. Websites became minimal in style. We see everything centered, with less text, more images, and smooth interactions by clicking and scrolling. Cookies became prevalent. Online accessibility matters.