Suspending Disbelief: A Life in Film and Future User Interfaces

December 18, 2025

Originally hosted at https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3777395

Mark Coleran, who passed away in 2024, was a pivotal force in designing convincing interfaces for film and television, creating screen graphics that helped audiences immerse themselves in new worlds. is work shaped the imagined future of user interface design.

By Miriam Sturdee, Elizabeth F. Churchill and Mikael Wiberg. Published in Volume 33, No.1 edition of the ACM Interactions magazine. Special acknowledgments to the ACM team (co-editors in chief of Interactions Elizabeth F. Churchill and Mikael Wiberg).