Does Design Matter?Oct 24, 2013
Elevator Button (on our floor)
Fan Regulator
User Interface
Man Machine Interaction
Lets start at the beginning…
Xerox Alto Mar 1973
Source: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/Xerox_Alto.jpg
Xerox Alto
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5e/Xerox_Alto_mit_Rechner.JPG
WIMP !
Windows, Icons, Menus, Pointers
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Apple_Macintosh_Desktop.png
1985
1992
1995
Works Better, Plays Better
Game Changer
Home Computer
Skeuomorphic
Retention of an object (or design) when the same is being reproduced in another material
Retention is usually for decoration or familiarity
Designing for Digital Migrants
Digital Natives
Its like speaking with an accent
Rapid Change!
Skeuomorphism is dead, and human evolution has reached the stage where we recognise buttons on phones, even
if they don't look like buttons.
Interfaces are becoming flat
They are nothing less than a multiplatform panacea.
The WIMP Era is ENDING
Sounds
Sounds Shakes
Pranav Mistry
Sixth Sense$350
Google Glass
1982
Controlled by Thought
Miguel Nicolelis Duke University
TEDMED 2012
Thank You!