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Founds this hidden in a cryptic blog post by Matt Webb. Interesting view on how design has changed over the course of human history and what design ‘today’ (written 2005) is or should be like: “Designing is in itself the creation of abstract machines, which draw complex diagrams, that cut across heterogeneous segments. […] The design product is often not embedded in a single physical object. But rather is an interconnection between many objects and people and their environment.”
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This has been making the rounds lately. A Japanese designer has mocked up a context-aware device from the near future. I like the suggestive quality of these images. He succeeds in communicating a complicated concept in a very concise way. Many different kinds of applications not explicitly mentioned can be effortlessly imagined based on this.