Tom Uglow a Google creative lab designer gives an insightful TED talk about what a world might look like if we interacted with the internet with our natural and physical environments and not through screens. He makes some fantastic points about why screens are not a great design and argues that humans love natural things, and that natural things and the use of the internet can co-exist. He talks about design companies form around the world and how they are designing natural but simple tools for everyday life. You may also see in some of his slides, his use of 'quick and dirty' prototyping.
This talk reminded me of
week 3, when we had to design a 'text free' interface and more recently last weeks discussion about the creative process in terms of Pixar. With this new knowledge I definitely think that my text free prototype from week 3 would look a lot different.
I would encourage you to take 8 minutes to
procrastinate take a look at this talk.
I suppose nearly any TED talk is an improvement on procrastination. But this is very very nice, hackable tech, hacking to make stuff 'in the world'. Wouldn't it be exciting if we could graft this kind of approach (the skills, the values, the experiences and ultimately into products) into/onto the Digital Innovation programme...
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