Jun 3, 2009
Microsoft Design Expo 2009: The Future of Work
Link to pdf of poster
post.it.nodes
Post.it.nodes is an interactive system that aims to bring flow to work by bringing the relevant relationships between people, tasks and documents to the surface, thus enabling the users to center their interactions around people and goals, rather than devices and software applications. post.it.nodes was envisioned with significant inspiration from Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s proposed psychological concept of flow.
“the relative rarity of flow experiences is due, by definition, to the fact that in everyday life the opportunities for action are seldom evenly matched with our abilities to act.”
Jenny Kam (Industrial Design)
Kris Martin (Interaction Design)
Kayan Atesci (iSchool)
Drew Bregel (HCI/Design)
Milam Lynn (Math)
flow presentation
flow documentation
Carbon
Carbon is a concept mapping tool that aids creatives during the initial ideation stage of a project. Carbon combines the simplicity of analog mediums with the flexibility of digital mediums. Carbon was designed with emphasis placed on taking a minimal approach and to carefuly maintain the simplicity of the application. Along with the product we made a website focused on teaching practitioners how each feature works. This takes the form of a Flash tutorial video in which the functions of Carbon are shown with mouse and key commands highlighted.
Drew Hamlin (Visual Communication Design)
Joey Flynn (Visual Communication Design)
Simon Bond (Visual Communication Design)
In today’s dynamic economy it is increasingly difficult to think about the future, let alone prepare for it. The Design Expo is an invited design challenge as part of the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit, a three-day conference and showcase for international academic research funded by Microsoft Research.