An eye-opening insight into the evolution of technology

1. Does Design Matter?
Oct 24, 2013

2. Elevator Button
(on our floor)

3. Fan Regulator

4. User Interface
Man Machine Interaction

5. Lets start at the beginning…

6. Xerox Alto
Mar 1973
Source: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/Xerox_Alto.jpg

7. Xerox Alto
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5e/Xerox_Alto_mit_Rechner.JPG

8. WIMP
!
Windows, Icons, Menus, Pointers

9. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Apple_Macintosh_Desktop.png

11. 1985

12. 1992

13. 1995

14. Works Better, Plays Better
Game Changer

15. Home Computer

16. Skeuomorphic
Retention of an object (or design) when the
same is being reproduced in another material
Retention is usually for decoration or familiarity

20. Designing for Digital Migrants

21. Digital Natives

22. Its like speaking with an accent

23. Rapid Change!

24. Skeuomorphism is dead, and human
evolution has reached the stage where
we recognise buttons on phones, even
if they don't look like buttons.

25. Interfaces are becoming flat

30. They are nothing less than a
multiplatform panacea.

31. The WIMP Era is ENDING

32. Sounds

34. Sounds
Shakes

36. Pranav Mistry
Sixth Sense
$350

37. Google Glass

38. 1982
Controlled by Thought

39. Miguel Nicolelis
Duke University
TEDMED 2012

40. Thank You!