(This guy headed up the team that worked on Halo 3)

Feelings - The perception of Self (book)

Talking about his time at digital.

discussing many of the designs of technology he was a part of (including the modern keyboard)

digital failed because the world changed and digital did not change with them.

Importance of a vision - and a vision of the future.

that vision can form a strategy for your design/product/business.

so how do you see into the future?

socio-cultural trend analysis

If you look at where you are now and where you're going - you can predict the past from the frame of reference you have now.

first computer interfaces were (CLI) command line interfaces

GUI came next - NUI next (natural user interface - surfaces/touch/etc.)

Principles and data drive successful design

total of 8 principles

CLI - GUI -> NUI

CLI - primarily text

GUI - primarily graphics

NUI - primarily objects

CLI - built around recall (recalling commands to use the system)

GUI - built from recognition: you can recognize the items in a menu to use them

NUI: interface built on intuition - if you expect it to work - it will work.

CLI: directed interface

GUI: exploratory system (pull down menus to see what they do)

(people who did better in usability testing scanned all the menus)

NUI: contextual - it understands and will understand and responds in a natural way

CLI: high # of commands w/ low interaction

GUI: double medium

NUI: Fast and few commands. based upon the natural properties of the object itself

CLI: Abstract & Disconnected terms

GUI: Indirect, interact with the computer through keys, mouse, etc.

NUI: Unmediated - a touch system, interact with in a natural way

CLI: Static - they sit, they wait.

GUI: Responsive. Push a mouse button, get a menu.

NUI: Evocative - the system itself should evoke the behavior. Rooted more in ecological psycology rather than cognitive psychology

Principles of performance aesthetics:

the joy of doing, play is not opposite of work, pleasure comes from interaction and not from accomplishment

Principle of direct manipulation:

wsiwyg = old: what you see is what you get = new

Principle of Scaffolding:

natural evolution in what you expect (put a phone down - data. put a 2nd phone down - comparison between the two)

Principle of Contextual environments:

Environment itself suggests what the next action is

Principle of the Super Real:

Realistic to touch a photo and move it - but touch a photo in one corner and another and expand it - it's super real

this is a bit of magic - but logical magic - you expect it.

Super Principles that drive behind the other principles.

They are the pillars of natural user interface design

Social, Seamless, Spatial

Social: the surface facilitates interaction (ex. flat surface of the MS surface table)

brings other people into the surface - brings people together rather than isolate

Seamless: there is a seamlessness between the computer and the interaction with the person themselves.

Spatial:

Windows: 2D world

ICONS: representation of something else. NUI world = portions of something to represent it "get your *ass* over here" (lol)

MENUS: clicking NUI: objects to interact with

WHY BOTHER creating a new interface?

Intuitive interface creates expertise

Powerful brand building

Emotional Connection

Referencing Harry Potter, Spider Man 3, Halo 3.

149M, 155M, 170M (first day of sales) (respectively)

text, text/story + graphics timing point of view, text/story/graphics/timing/pointofview/ behavior (respectively)

CLI: text

GUI: graphics

NUI: behavior

(get the connection??)

childs drawings actually tend to represent the history of art. crude -> realistic -> abstract (very interesting!!)

Formism, Mechanism, Contextualism, Organicism

(study those terms)

organicsim: use the metaphor of an organic system to explain phenomenon

Predicting the next system? XUI - Organic System.

Based on synthesis - the combining of things.

instead of contextual, it'll be anticipatory in a meaningful way - constant interaction, extensive instead of unmediated,

...finally instead of calling for a behavior it will be a fluid interaction between the user and the system.