On: VisualIDs: Automatic Distinctive Icons for Desktop Interfaces

[phil]

this seems like one of those ideas that's obvious when someone points it out to you: someday interfaces will have better scenery so we can recognize where we are in our data.

but this particular one seems pretty counterintuitive. it will be deeply weird if in the future we're all sifting through little piles of fractal amoebae to find our files.