Future of Design?
March 1st, 2010 YandaWriting for HP blog a trend competition in a viewpoint of an interactive designer, I believe that future lies in selling experiences.
Websites and applications will not be made just to show information and having to experience the website using just mouse interaction only.
Taking one example, Pill and Pillow, from Hong Kong, has done a website for Eric Chan Design, http://www.ericchandesign.com that user could interact using laptop with new technologies like motion sensor and the website will be responding to your movements when you swing or rock your notebook.
Whereas on the other hand, using the influx technology of markers to make an Augmented Reality, Boards Magazine showed us how from their March issue print magazine.
It seems like these technologies has almost been starting to have their own category; Augmented Reality (is a term for a live direct or indirect view of a physical real-world environment whose elements are augmented by virtual computer-generated imagery.) to Projection Mapping to Holograms to Visual Sound to Touch Screens and Gesture/Motion Interaction and we will definitely see more of that everywhere in the future, with more people becoming tech-saavy and internet-connected anywhere.
Below are a few selected examples of how such technologies have been brought nearer to us, making things interesting one way or another.
Augmented Reality
(1) Interactive Store Front Display: Interactive dog that follows you around, discerns your gestures as friendly or aggressive and tries to engage you in a play.
(2) Augmented Reality Cosmetic Mirror in Tokyo: All you do is sit down and let the camera scan your face. The terminal then gives you tailored recommendations to test make-up and recommendations without even having to pick up a mascara brush.
(3) Augmented Business Card
(3) Li Ti Hui Chun: New Year Greeting Card
Touch Screens
(1) Interactive Museum
(2) Citroen In-Store Touch Screen Kiosk
(3) Interactive Mirror for DIESEL GINZA
(4) LCF Graduate Show Installation by Moving Brands
(5) London College of Fashion Interactive Table
Slide Projection Mapping
(1) Sony Projection
(2) Tennants Projection for Advertising
(3) Video Projection
(4) Projection on Buildings
(5) Night Lights
Hologram
(1) Kate Moss For Al
exander McQueen Fashion Show
(2) Diesel Liquid Space Fashion Show
(3) Holographic Sony-Ericsson interactive campaign
(4) Adidas Concept Store
Gesture/Motion Interaction
(1) Chanel Interactive Window Ginza
(2) AdFloor Aquarium
(3) Nokia 6300 Interactive AdFloor
(4) Interactive Wedding
(5) CUBE Installation at METAMORPHOSE 08
(6) Being Not Truthful – Stefan Sagmeister and Ralph Ammer
(7) Wow live motion texture
(8) Interactive Art
Visual Sound
(1) Interactive instrument for generative music visualization
(2) Amalgation #01 @ Kizuki by PMP
(3) Becks – Music Inspired Art interactive installations
(4) MerceDeath
So what will the point be? What will be the future of design? Will it be those? Maybe not. No one really knows that I can be sure. I can also be sure there are a group of people are starting to hate so many new technologies coming into our life and always yearn for more handcrafts and traditional art techniques like letterpress for example.
April 14th, 2010 at 12:40 am
What an *amazing* post! So full of goodness, this will keep me busy for half the evening. Thanks Yanda, for all the work that must have gone into compiling and writing this. Will be sure to share it with friends. Let’s keep in touch!