This document outlines a series of meetings for an interfaces project, beginning on May 7th, 2014 and concluding on June 25th, 2014. It includes dates for team building activities, presentations of ideas and storyboards by teams, iterations and test runs of projects. The document also provides background information on the history of interfaces, including perspectives from thinkers like Jef Raskin, Alan Kay, and definitions and examples of design fiction and flat-pack futures.

2. INTERFACES

3. GET-TOGETHER
‣ 07.05.2014
‣ 14.05.2014, Creative Brief & Team building [coach]
‣ 21.05.2014 +30M, Topic presentation & -discussion, Idea framework [coach]
‣ 28.05.2014 +30M, Idea presentation (three basic ideas) [teams]
‣ 04.06.2014 +30M, Storyboard presentation [teams]
‣ 11.06.2014 +30M, Iteration #1 & Test run [teams]
‣ 18.06.2014 +30M, Iteration #2 & Test run [teams]
‣ 25.06.2014 +30M, Final presentation [teams]

4. PERSONAL LEARNINGS
WS 2013, DESIGN FICTION

5. 1.HISTORY OF INTERFACES
2.DESIGN FICTION
3.FLAT-PACK FUTURES

6. HISTORY OF INTERFACES
WHAT IS AN INTERFACE?
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7. MARINA ABRAMOVIC
RELATION IN MOVEMENT

8. JEF RASKIN (THE HUMANE INTERFACE, 2001)
”An interface is humane if it is responsive to human
needs and considerate of human frailties.”
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9. JEF RASKIN

10. JEF RASKIN (PROGRAMMERS AT WORK, 1986)
”I hate mice. The mouse involves you in arm motions that
slow you down. I didn't want it on the Macintosh, but Jobs
insisted. In those days, what he said went, good idea or not.”
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13. ALAN KAY

14. ALAN KAY
”The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
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18. HISTORY OF INTERFACES
A COMMENT ON INNOVATION
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19. PRESENT

20. PRESENTPAST

21. PRESENTPAST FUTURE

22. HUGO GERNSBACK
(1929)

23. NORMAN BEL GEDDES
(1939)

25. RICHARD BUCKMINSTER
FULLER
(1928)

28. DESIGN FICTION
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29. DEFINITION: DESIGN FICTION
Design Fiction ist the approach to design new realities and put them into effect. It
is a crucial approach to see the world not only like it is, instead how the world
could be.
!
!
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30. DEFINITION: DESIGN FICTION
Design Fiction ist the approach to design new realities and put them into effect. It
is a crucial approach to see the world not only like it is, instead how the world
could be.
!
!
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31. SOLARIS
(1972)

32. THE CENTRIFUGE
BRAIN PROJECT
(2013)

33. FURTHER
Design Fiction uses the techniques of fiction and drama to test the future, to see
what future technologies or systems might work, on how they might be received
and what their impact might be.
!
It presents a series of alternative possible futures and shows which path might
be preferable.
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34. FURTHER
Design Fiction uses the techniques of fiction and drama to test the future, to see
what future technologies or systems might work, on how they might be received
and what their impact might be.
!
It presents a series of alternative possible futures and shows which path might
be preferable.
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35. FLAT-PACK FUTURES
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36. WHAT COULD YOU OBSERVE?

37. WHAT COULD YOU OBSERVE?
‣ Nobody got fingerprints anymore.
‣ Does this solve a “real” problem?
‣ Tropes of “modern” corporate views.
‣ They look very similar.
‣ Why do they suggest: “I am busy all the time?“
‣ I HATE MINORITY REPORT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

38. DEFINITION: FLAT-PACK FUTURES
We tend, in other words, to imagine future technological systems as readymade,
holistic products that people will choose to adopt, rather than as the assembled
work of countless different actors, which they’ve always really been. The futurist
Scott Smith calls these ‘flat-pack futures,’ and they infect “science fictional”
thinking.
!
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39. YOUR PROJECT
VISUALIZATION EXAMPLES
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40. CRITERIA
‣ Video: maximum of five minutes (which is very long)
‣ Video: statement/intention in the beginning
‣ Video: technology for positive change
‣ Presentation: example follows
‣ Documentation: example follows
‣ Everything in English

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