{"id":"magic-cap","no":493,"name":"Magic Cap","ja":"マジックキャップ","era":"1994–1998","family":"プラットフォームの画面言語","kind":"世界観","collection":"Dictionary expansion 26","addedAt":"2026-08-19","source":{"title":"IEEE Spectrum — Allison Marsh, \"In 1989, General Magic Saw the Future of Smartphones\"","url":"https://spectrum.ieee.org/general-magic-motorola-envoy"},"reference":{"status":"verified","pageUrl":"https://spectrum.ieee.org/general-magic-motorola-envoy","credit":"IEEE Spectrum — Allison Marsh, \"In 1989, General Magic Saw the Future of Smartphones\"","gallery":[{"imageUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/SonyMagicLink.jpg?width=640","pageUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SonyMagicLink.jpg","credit":"Josh Carter《Sony Magic Link》2010年 — Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0"},{"imageUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sony%20MagicLink%20(4725298822).jpg?width=640","pageUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sony%20MagicLink%20(4725298822).jpg","credit":"Blake Patterson《Sony Magic Link を操作するところ》2010年 — Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 2.0"},{"imageUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Motorola%20Envoy%20(4725298972).jpg?width=640","pageUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Motorola%20Envoy%20(4725298972).jpg","credit":"Blake Patterson《Motorola Envoy》2010年 — Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 2.0"}]},"essence":"General Magic が携帯通信端末に載せた画面言語。物を似せるのではなく場所を似せ、机の上の電話とローロデックスとメモ帳から始まり、廊下を通ってゲーム部屋や倉庫へ入る。触れる対象がすべて絵として描かれ、手引きを読まずに使い始めた人が多かったと記録されている。","cues":["机の上に電話とローロデックスとメモ帳とカレンダーが並ぶ最初の画面","机の背後の壁に掛時計、書類の入出箱、書類棚が描かれている","部屋から部屋へは廊下を通る。その廊下にも絵と家具が描かれている","階調の粗い液晶に描かれた線画を、指ではなくペンで直接突く"],"intents":["親密","遊び","懐かしさ"],"works":["機能一覧ではなく部屋の並びとして道具を配る端末を、初めて触る人向けに設計するとき","1990年代半ばの携帯情報端末が出てくる作品美術で、画面の中身まで作り込むとき"],"recipe":{"type":"文字は絵の中の名札として扱う。部屋と道具の名前を短く置き、一覧の見出しには頼らない。","layout":"画面全体を一つの場所にする。机の面、その背後の壁、外の廊下、隣の部屋という順で奥へつなぐ。","material":"写真を使わず線画で描く。道具は正面から見た形にし、押せるものだけに厚みと影を与えて手前へ出す。"},"avoid":"部屋と廊下を増やすほど道具が遠ざかるので、場所の比喩を採るなら先に往復の手数を数えておくこと。","colors":["#2B2F2B","#8F978C","#C6CBBE"],"motif":"graphic","pair":["skeuomorphism","aqua"],"study":["Motorola Envoy と Sony Magic Link の実機で、隣の部屋へ移るのに何回触れるか","同時代の Microsoft Bob が同じ空間の比喩をどう別の形で採ったか","General Magic の設計陣がその後どの製品に移ったか"],"en":{"essence":"The interface General Magic put on its communicating handhelds, running on the Motorola Envoy and the Sony Magic Link. Instead of imitating single objects it imitates a place, opening on an Office where a telephone, a Rolodex, a notepad and a calendar sit on a desk, with a wall clock, in and out boxes and a filing cabinet behind it. From there a Hallway, furnished and hung with pictures, leads to the Game Room, the Living Room, the Storeroom and the Control Room.","cues":["An opening screen where a telephone, a Rolodex, a notepad and a calendar sit on a desk","A wall clock, in and out boxes and a filing cabinet drawn on the wall behind that desk","Movement between rooms goes through a hallway that is itself furnished and hung with pictures","Line drawings on a coarse grayscale display, touched directly with a stylus rather than a finger"],"works":["Designing a handheld for first time users where tools are handed out as rooms rather than as a list of features","Building period art for a mid 1990s handheld where the screen contents have to hold up on their own"],"recipe":{"type":"Treat type as a nameplate inside the drawing. Name the rooms and the objects briefly and do not fall back on list headings.","layout":"Make the whole screen one place. Chain the desk surface, the wall behind it, the hallway outside and the next room in that order.","material":"Draw rather than photograph. Show each object from the front and give thickness and shadow only to the things that can be pressed."},"avoid":"Every extra room and hallway pushes the tools further away, so count the round trips before committing to a spatial metaphor.","study":["how many touches it takes to move to the next room on an actual Motorola Envoy or Sony Magic Link","how Microsoft Bob of the same years took the same spatial metaphor in another form","which products the General Magic design team moved on to"]},"links":{"page":"https://indexstyle.org/styles/magic-cap","json":"https://indexstyle.org/api/styles/magic-cap","designSpec":"https://indexstyle.org/styles/magic-cap/design.md","imagePrompt":"https://indexstyle.org/styles/magic-cap/prompt.txt"},"usage":{"license":"CC-BY-4.0","licenseName":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International","licenseUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org","attributionUrl":"https://indexstyle.org","scope":"Original IndexStyle text and structured data. Reference images, quoted works, and third-party material are excluded and retain their own rights."}}