Introduce AMOLED

Where screens are headed

Device Disappearance

Building blocks

Quick ideas

Phone bashing

Swarm of bees

Star Trek reference

Alcohol pun

Forlorn looking puppy

1970s – 1990s

1960s1950s

OLED (organic light-emitting diode)

AM-OLED

AdvantagesLower costLightweightFlexibleWider viewing anglesBrightnessPower efficientThinnerFast response time

(2010)

Active Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode

LG flexible plastic ePaper (2010)

Samsung Flexible AMOLED Display (2011)

LG flexible plastic ePaper (2012)

E Ink Mobius Flexible Display (2013)

E Ink Mobius Flexible Display (2013)

Sony Digital Paper Prototype (2013)

Corning® Gorilla® Glass 3 bends 75 to 80 degrees (2014)

LG G Flex D958 Curved P-OLED Phone (2014)

$38 Datawind UbiSlate 7Ci (2014)

Summary

Weight reduction (63 grams)

Digital screens are now paper, like we've always wanted

Rugged (floats rather than falls)

Touch enabled

3 week battery life

Hand can rest on the screen

Cheap to produce

So what happened?

All of this…

Investment vs. Adoption

Supply of indium-tin-oxide

South Korea investment (2009 / 2010)

Real AMOLED = OLED + Graphene

Consumer readiness

What will happen?

Paddle by Hasselt University iMinds (2014)

Nickolay Lamm and Matteo Gianni

Schoolpost

SET Solution

James Ivaldi

Future design challenges

Design on metal and metallic surfaces

Design for wide wide screen

Design for continuous screen

Design for tiny screen

Design for transparency

Newspaper Design Returns

“It is part of the age-old habit of using new means for old purposes instead of discovering what are the new goals contained in the new means.”

From Cliché to Archetype (1970)

We can do better

Tricorder Smartphone

Device Disappearance

W H Y N O W ?

Dependence

Dependence

Commands

Dependence

Commands

Cost

Dependence

Commands

Cost

Alternate reality

Inter-connected

Intra-connected

1

“Device” as a concept is too

small

2

Removal of stuff, actions, behaviors and

scenarios from our lives

I Forgot My Phone (Miles Crawford)

3

Fallacy or contradiction in the “connected

generation” or “connected self”

2012

2019

7.046 Billion

9.4 Billion

Pollen boy on the sun (Navajo)

4

We’re starting to experience device

fatigue

We will see paper thin screens

Stuff is gonna get in the way

We must design for all of it

We should visualize a future

I M M E D I A T E F U T U R E

Building blocks

B U I L D I N G B L O C K S

Promote Connectedness

B U I L D I N G B L O C K S

Promote Connectedness

Create Time

“[what if] the performer plays a song specially for video taking in the beginning featuring photo/video friendly light effects, and for the rest of the show there is a photo/video restriction in place?”From FastCompany.Design (2014)

B U I L D I N G B L O C K S

Promote Connectedness

Close Literacy Gaps

Create Time

B U I L D I N G B L O C K S

Promote Connectedness

Close Literacy Gaps

Achieve Ubiquity

Create Time

“We used to have separate categories of device: washing machines, VCRs, phones, cars, but now we just have computers in different cases.”

From The Coming Civil War over General Purpose Computing

B U I L D I N G B L O C K S

Promote Connectedness

Close Literacy Gaps

Achieve Ubiquity

Create Time

B U I L D I N G B L O C K S

Evaporative Data

C R E D I T : L O U S A G E R

Ideas for the road

( W H A T I W A N T T O S E E H A P P E N )

Zones of freedom

Gestural language

собака

perroسگ

Folds, bends and percussive gestures

Collecting and bundling

Spatial arrangement

Food and product labels

Digital scrolls

Playstation Portable 2 Concept (2008)

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History, favorites, allergies, social, etc.