Most digital platforms are all about making us spend more time to connect. The new Opera web browser makes a good impression that he is an instrument that he wants to do the opposite: to encourage us to take breaks from viewing.
Using the smooth, minimalist design, Opera Air has a user interface for meditation. In fact, this is an application for mediation. Along with music for creative inspiration, it provides guided meditation and breathing exercises (see our choice of the best user interface design tools if you are working on your own product design).
Opera air functions – discover a conscious browser for yourself. – YouTube
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Opera Air has a transparent user interface with beautiful glass accents. It looks like a working computer. When he was asked to choose the wallpaper, I was tempted by the seductive image of a giant bubble floating according to the ugly version of the bliss Windows, but decided that he reminded me of the prisoner, so I chose the image of Caspar David Friedrich Figures on the mountain bathing in consciousness. Inspiring. There is even an annoying motivational quote below.
But the real revolution with Opera Air is located in the toolbar on the left. The browser takes the concept of awareness outside its user interface design and applies it to all UX, adding many unique functions (for web browser). It has a rupture mode with four “smart exercises”: breathing, exercises for the neck, meditation and “scanning of the whole body”. With a variant of a male or female voice.
Minimalist user interface Opera Air (Image provided: Joe Foley)
Respiratory exercises are designed to help reduce stress, while the exercises in the neck that include a three -dimensional model are aimed at reassuring muscles hurting the neck and increasing flexibility. Scanning the whole body is a form of meditation, which includes attention on different parts of the body and arising sensations.
There is also a “increase” that should help concentrate creativity. They take the form of binaural strokes in which different frequencies are played for each ear. The opera even claims that one of them can help users recall dreams better.
Opera Air offers four “smart exercises” to help users disconnect (Image Credit: Opera)
I would like to say that I tested all the functions of relaxation in full, but I lost my patience after the first few seconds, and Alex, my personal coach “Personal breathing in the browser”, sounded too self -serving. I am clearly lost. The browser really looks very beautiful, and it is easy to configure and switch between two working spaces. Opera Air also has an assistant in artificial intelligence, ARIA, advertising blocker in construction and free VPN.
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The opera is currently a majority belonging to the Chinese company Kunlun. Previous browsers were criticized for errors and updates that make things break, but some people like tabs control tools.
Opera AI is free to download and use from the Opera website.
