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!