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Design fiction – lessons in innovation from Hollywood
g-speak overview 1828121108 from john underkoffler on Vimeo. Minority Report was released in 2002. Nevertheless, to this day I continue to hear non-designers refer to natural interfaces as “Minority Report UI.” In 2008, Oblong’s spatial operating environment, known as g-speak, made Minority Report UI a reality. The lesson is clear. As Alan Kay put it, …
Natural interfaces in 5 min.
Click image to play video. How to prototype iPad apps with PowerPoint You don’t need an iPad or an engineer to tantalize your product team with the possibility of a natural interface. With just a few minutes, a computer that isn’t touch capable, and the equipment listed below, you can work like Tom Cruise in …
A culture of innovation is a culture of play
Imagine, for a moment, what would happen if you tried to convince your company to embed a game in its flagship product. Would you be dismissed with arguments of scarce resources, higher priorities, opportunity costs, and low return on investment? Or would the response be giddy: “That’s so fun! We have to do it.” At …
Uniformity is undesirable. Symmetry is immanent.
In everything…uniformity is undesirable. Leaving something incomplete makes it interesting, and gives the feeling that there is room for growth…Even when building the imperial palace, they always leave one place unfinished.—Japanese Essays in Idleness via Marcus du Sautoy Sautoy opens with a vignette on Galois‘s quest to revolutionize mathematics the night before he died in a …
Maslow’s hierarchy is wrong, says Gupta
via ted.com There could be nothing more wrong than the Maslowian…hierarchy of needs. Because the poorest people in this country can get enlightenment…All the great saints…they were all poor people; and they had a great vision! Please do not ever think that only after meeting your physiological needs and other needs can you be …
16 techniques for innovation (and counting)
Claude Shannon once told me that as a kid, he remembered being stuck on a jigsaw puzzle. His brother, who was passing by, said to him: `You know: I could tell you something.’ That’s all his brother said. Yet that was enough hint to help Claude solve the puzzle.—Manuel Blum, Advice to a Beginning Graduate Student Transposition – …
Biomimicry is nature-inspired design
via ted.com See Robert Full’s talk, http://bit.ly/cDaNmd, for a harder science take on the same theme. Posted via web from Aneesh’s posterous
“When someone says that society should wait until scientists are absolutely certain before taking any action, it is the same as saying society should never take action.”
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