Here’s an interesting #keyboard I spotted. It’s a membrane keyboard for use in medical facilities. It’s completely flat and likely waterproof, and even includes a dedicated switch to disable the keys so you can wipe down its surface.
But here’s the thing—it features a flat image of a keyboard with raised keys. It’s a pure #skeuomorph. I’ve never seen anything like it.
Neither Vision Pro nor Humane's Ai Pin are 'the future’, but they’re both showcasing aspects that will /become/ the future. A pair of glasses, running an OS like visionOS, with advanced multimodal AI smarts. That's the next product that can truly change the world, something anybody and everybody can wear all day every day, and give the smartphone a run for its money; what we have now are science projects — really cool science projects — but science projects nonetheless
@stroughtonsmith@blaise Rabbit looked like better designed software to me, though I like the pin form. Humane's AI Pin obviously needs tactile buttons! It's a pin; you need to feel for the button and get tactile feedback from pressing it. Fck apple for making capacitive touch so popular. Calling all #industrialDesign ers: please design a tactile button to dethrone capacitive buttons in hardware?
"Actually, the business case of the #Nighttrain doesn’t quite addup," explains #IDE alumnus Annabelle Out. That’s why Annabelle designed a carriage interior for both day and night trains as part of her graduation project for the #Engineering firm Royal HaskoningDHV.
I think I just found the worlds worst faucet design. Not only was it not at all obvious how to use it. Once I DID figure it out, you can't easily change the temperature after it's running!
I'm reading Janette Sadik-Khan's "Street Fight" -- her book about her time as transportation head of NYC, building bike lanes, bikeshare, and pedestrian avenues
She prints this "city of the future" model from the 1939 World's Fair
Massive highways circling mammoth buildings; virtually no non-car routes; hilariously few trees
I'd love to read about: How did this become the vision of "the future" back in 1939?
What are some good books on that? Any recommendations, I'm all ears!
Watching the promotional film will give you a good sense of the rhetoric and ostensible values informing Futurama.
I can see that other people have suggested readings about urban planning. You might also like to consider Futurama and its vision of the future USA in the context of industrial design - Futurama 'was dreamed up by industrial designer Norman Bel Geddes.
Just discovered that the original (German military) "jerrycans" fuel canisters' #design featured three handles at the top, among other things. It allows carrying by two people jointly, or carrying two empty cans in each hand for a single person. That was some really clever #industrialdesign there, and I wish I could easily find these as a civilian, for house chores. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerrycan#Design
Wanna repaint upstairs, dunno what colour, typing "What colour should I paint my walls" into DDG like a total chump, if that question had an answer then paint shops wouldn't exist, yet there's a million linkspam websites and a thousand youtube videos that'll all waste your time taking ten minutes each to say "IDK LOL"
'This time, Ford is revealing 100 new concept car images, including 45 new vehicles, to total 378 unique concept vehicles online. It looks like a study in futuristic automotive car design executed decades ago. Overall, the Ford Heritage Vault now hosts 1,844 concept car images from 1896 to 2021.'
"Robox", my first exploration of the NURBS-based Plasticity 3D editor, which is a useful Blender companion, including mostly the same keyboard shortcuts.
powers of ten for interface design: zooming out from a simple button to our planet, this animation introduces the central concerns of #InterfaceDesign – as taught at #FHPotsdam – and sneaks in a few easter eggs and historical references along the way.