Re: [IxDA Discuss] Microsoft Office Labs 2019 Vision

I would agree that ideally a concept design / visualization should be based around persona and according scenarios (in turn based on proper user research) and providing a good sense of context and rational. However, considering the likely target group of Microsoft's video (i.e. large public), I ca

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Microsoft Office Labs 2019 Vision

When it comes to hardware, memory is cheap, tiny, and drop-proof, now, but the controls and display are still expensive and breakable. I've been wishing for years that buses and trains had e-paper (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeaT62OMi8M) pasted on the seatback, walls, or windows, so I could br

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Microsoft Office Labs 2019 Vision

My experience with my last employer was quite divine in this context, learnt a lot. More often, demos become the modes of communicating to other stakeholders within the company and suppliers / technical or marketing teams what your vision is. Or even for that matter, when communicating to media / b

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Microsoft Office Labs 2019 Vision

On Mar 4, 2009, at 10:15 AM, Dante Murphy wrote: OK, so there were some neat-o gizmos in this infomercial, but it really fell short in context. And this is a pet peeve of mine...why does something that is intended to communicate a vision of the future lack any narrative or labeling? Whe

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Microsoft Office Labs 2019 Vision

Cool retrospective, Scott! I do agree that our infrastructure is a glass ceiling; we're still having trouble getting hotels to realize that broadband internet access is a utility as essential as cable TV news in the room. I still think a lot of this can be possible while we wait on the right plumb

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Microsoft Office Labs 2019 Vision

I think it's interesting to compare this to the AT&T Commercials from 1993: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZb0avfQme8 So many things fulfilled, so many things understood in the common technology of the time ("From a phone booth! Fax from a beach!"). Scott -- "I have mad skills at doing spaz

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Microsoft Office Labs 2019 Vision

Here's a pretty good critique that supports what Dave is saying (in a little more detail): http://www.pointanddo.com/2009/03/assessing-microsofts-future-vision.html I don't know that I completely agree with all the criticisms, but the basic point is that businesses aren't going to pay for all

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Microsoft Office Labs 2019 Vision

Nasir, I think the infrastructure to support ubiquitous systems, IMHO, are actually further off than 10 years, I'm afraid. Well, at least in the US. We have become so anti-infrastructure in our investments b/c of the way we have deregulated and privatized all aspects of American life. These investm

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Microsoft Office Labs 2019 Vision

list IXDA Subject: [IxDA Discuss] Microsoft Office Labs 2019 Vision My apologies if this got posted already... but I didn't see it. I figure there'd be a lot of interest in this video: http://www.istartedsomething.com/20090228/microsoft-office-labs-vision-2019-video/ -- Andre

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Microsoft Office Labs 2019 Vision

Thanks for posting, Andrei. Lots of good stuff here, including concepts Mark Weiser pioneered in the early 90s at Xerox PARC. Interesting to see the applications, especially those involving transparent displays. I especially liked the animated finger-painting display-- I used to dream of that as a

[IxDA Discuss] Microsoft Office Labs 2019 Vision

My apologies if this got posted already... but I didn't see it. I figure there'd be a lot of interest in this video: http://www.istartedsomething.com/20090228/microsoft-office-labs-vision-2019-video/ -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e.