Matthew Panzarino’s Interview with Phill Ryu

February 14th, 2012

Phill Ryu:

And that’s the awesome part about technology, suddenly you have this new amazing touch input that’s in everyone’s pocket and you can latch onto that and create completely novel experiences. I don’t know, there is something just magical about that.

What’s exciting about Clear is how original the user interaction is. I think we’re in a sort of prologue for touch interfaces, where the user interface concepts are still largely similar to desktop ones. Clear is trying to push out of that and into the future, where touch interfaces are designed assuming everyone is familiar with them. It’s a lot closer to what you’d think someone who grew up using touch interfaces, rather than a mouse and keyboard, would want to use.