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I don't know how to put it lightly. But it's really not a good design in a lot of aspects and I don't know why you consider it a FUI. You should consider asking the guys at /r/design about it, they are more likely to give feedback. But because you asked:

• The white / gray gradient in the background looks bad, gradients as the background are becoming a thing again, but nowadays they are always colorful (like likeblue to drakblue, see betterment here: http://www.abrokeinvestor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/week-1-betterment-result.png). When making a FUI, use a dark background and white as the font-color, always looks cool.
• The font looks awful, always use a serious sans-serif font for a dashboard. FUIs often use monospaced ones, because it looks kinda futuristic. Also try to use only 2-3 font-sizes.
• Layout is not consistent. The headers are all over the place and look different in each panel.
• What is the upper-right panel even representing? what are these weird green circles? What is this binary nonsense?

There are a lot of other things, but hopefully this gives you an idea. You should go to dribbble.com for example to see what others are doing, there you can see high quality mockups of interfaces, they also have FUIs there: https://dribbble.com/search?q=fui.

But don't give up, my goal wasn't to demotivate you! Design is hard, just keep going and you'll start to get good. My first designs didn't look that different.

Thanks! Feedback is always welcome and appreciated! I'm probably going to take a short break from working on this until I have more free time, but I'll look into lowering the glitchy-ness. Is the overall shaking, the part where it scales/skews, or the color/offset stuff that's too much? Or maybe a combination of all of those?

As for other crypto coins, I might add them eventually. I actually don't know what this would really be useful for and mainly created it to play with creating something with a FUI-style look and to improve my overall web development skills. But on the off chance it actually sees usage I would be happy to add other currencies.

The top one I'm looking at however, is Ethereum. I haven't looked into it too much but it looks like you might be able to "build in" some type of contract to the currency which might mean I can forego running the backend server entirely. https://www.ethereum.org/greeter

I'm not an expert on it, but I think you can use font embedding to put any font you can find for free nowadays. For example there's Google Fonts. Maybe something like https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Play ? I dunno.

I can't speak for the guys and gals doing this for a living, but when I started creating my first stuff, I took a screenshot of a screen on Battlestar Galactica that I liked and tried to re-create it in Photoshop (because PS was what I knew).

Did that a couple of times. It gives you a good idea about layout and distribution, what is important for FUIs, colours, etc.

Keep in mind - FUIs are a storytelling tool. Ususally a screen has a very specific purpose; showing the viewer what is happening. Like a prop on the Helicarrier on Avengers failing, for example. Or a database-search being completed and finding the suspect. You get the idea.

If you want to create one from scratch, I'd recommend you come up with a purpose for the screen. Then you create a basic window layout just by drawing some boxes - the viewer needs to grasp what is going on within 3 seconds of looking at the screen, so ususally there's a main window that tells you what is going on, the rest of the stuff is mostly eye-candy. Then start to come up with a colour-palette - you can use https://color.adobe.com/ to help you with that. Then just start designing windows and stuff. Keep in mind that you'll have to animate most stuff later on in After Effects, so it'd be wise to create your stuff in Illustrator.

Hope this helps! You should check out the Podcast, I often ask the real pros what their process is like, what tools they use, etc. You can find it <strong>here</strong>.

So far, I haven't reached the stage of getting it connected with an actual car, so I have some dummy values going into it for the moment.

Th entire project is written in Python using the curses library and easily runs on even the older Raspberry Pis. The video here was recorded through cool-retro-term, as I'm sure many of you here may be familiar. My code can be found here: https://github.com/otacon239/cursedOBD

I hope to have this project to at barebones working state by the end of his month, assuming I can get the OBD connection working.

I'm not too sure about it. I've been able to play around with the Magic Leap in articy:draft 2 and while it was fun to place nodes with my fingertips in the air, it wasn't very efficient.

To me, it felt a tiny bit like a trackpad; it certainly works and is a viable alternative if you don't have a mouse, but a mouse is what I prefer and am faster with. Also my arms don't get tired if I have to use the mouse for a longer time.

For things like VR and AR I believe that the basic technology behind the Leap is a big thing. But mice will rule the PC for a good while longer. Look at all the touchscreen monitors on laptops nowadays - there are more of them every year but they're still just gimicky. I don't know anyone that actually uses the feature.

A good combination of Rainmeter plugins can usually result in a pretty neat FUI. The fun thing about Rainmeter is that they're actually functional; so rather than a bunch of graphs and data that's meaningless, it's useful information about your system like CPU/RAM/HDD/Network and latest emails and more.

If you felt like taking it overboard you could combine it with IFTTT and have notifications appearing on your desktop for all sorts of events from earthquakes to a new FUI post.