Watch a User Experience Expert React to Sci-fi Operating Systems

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In Vulture’s video series, Expert Witness, we ask scientists, historians, and other professionals to give Hollywood movies a good old-fashioned fact-check.

It seems like every computer system in science fiction has an incredibly complicated, futuristic user interface. But how functional would those operating systems be in the real world? We turned to user experience designer Regine Gilbert to fact-check some fictional UIs in everything from Star Wars to Iron Man.

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