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Re: iPhone 6: An edgy concept

#101

Post by ruchirablog »

na85 wrote: post #87
geuis wrote: post #51

Folks, stop bitching and complaining about this or that idea being good/bad/impractical etc, etc. It's a designer's demo portfolio work. http://www.johnnyplaid.com Designers do this stuff because they have ideas about how devices and interfaces can change and they explore those ideas. It doesn't seem to me that Johnny is making claims about inside information. He's using his visual talents to create mockups of what m…

It's so silly, though. Does this guy work/speak for Apple? Is he an electrical engineer who can say for certain that the retina display can actually be manufactured in this edgy way? No, he's just a guy with Adobe Illustrator. So... why should I care what he thinks?

Retina display huh? Retina is just another marketing word. Apple's retina display was surpassed by consumer technology more than a year ago. GS4 has a 441ppi screen while the Iphone 5 "Retina" display is just 326ppi.

Re: iPhone 6: An edgy concept

#102

Post by na85 »

ruchirablog wrote: post #101
na85 wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's so silly, though. Does this guy work/speak for Apple? Is he an electrical engineer who can say for certain that the retina display can actually be manufactured in this edgy way? No, he's just a guy with Adobe Illustrator. So... why should I care what he thinks?

Retina display huh? Retina is just another marketing word. Apple's retina display was surpassed by consumer technology more than a year ago. GS4 has a 441ppi screen while the Iphone 5 "Retina" display is just 326ppi.

.... okay?

I'm not sure why you thought that I didn't understand that Retina is a marketing term, or why it's relevant to the point I was making.

Re: iPhone 6: An edgy concept

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Post by acterizk »

na85 wrote: post #87
geuis wrote: post #51

Folks, stop bitching and complaining about this or that idea being good/bad/impractical etc, etc. It's a designer's demo portfolio work. http://www.johnnyplaid.com Designers do this stuff because they have ideas about how devices and interfaces can change and they explore those ideas. It doesn't seem to me that Johnny is making claims about inside information. He's using his visual talents to create mockups of what m…

It's so silly, though. Does this guy work/speak for Apple? Is he an electrical engineer who can say for certain that the retina display can actually be manufactured in this edgy way? No, he's just a guy with Adobe Illustrator. So... why should I care what he thinks?

Perhaps because he has provided something to consider... - Edge touch with a new suite of gestures and gesture recognizers? - Side touch without obscuring the UI? - Sideways image projection via total internal reflection?

Re: iPhone 6: An edgy concept

#105

Post by woah »

geuis wrote: post #51

Folks, stop bitching and complaining about this or that idea being good/bad/impractical etc, etc. It's a designer's demo portfolio work. http://www.johnnyplaid.com Designers do this stuff because they have ideas about how devices and interfaces can change and they explore those ideas. It doesn't seem to me that Johnny is making claims about inside information. He's using his visual talents to create mockups of what m…

I used to be in school for ID (switched to the web), and stuff like this annoyed me. You enter contests, really think through what can be done with current tech and what compromises can be made while still preserving the beauty of the design, and some asshole enters with something that is physically impossible.

Re: iPhone 6: An edgy concept

#106

Post by woah »

shinratdr wrote: post #95

Someone said on Twitter the other day, I wonder what UI designers could come up with if they weren't hamstrung by the fact that it needs to be built by a developer? I can't help but think of exactly that whenever I see one of these hardware mockups. This is what designers can do when they aren't hamstrung by the need to actually have it built by hardware engineers. An interesting intellectual exercise and a beautiful…

I am an interface designer, and the constraints imposed by those mean ol' developers are because they are forced to think through logical flows to implement them.

The perfect ui would be a device that you wear in a small ring that reads your mind to find out exactly what you want, and using superhuman ai, strategizes the perfect way to get it for you.

There. I did it.

Re: iPhone 6: An edgy concept

#107

Post by jasonwatkinspdx »

waylonk wrote: post #91
jasonwatkinspdx wrote: post #65

I don't understand why so many designers attempt to push the limits of material science while clearly being almost entirely ignorant of it. For example, carbon fiber composites do bend. You can make springs out of them. Also, if you could figure out how to manufacture graphene at a scale large enough to use them on iphone screens you'd probably win the Nobel. You can't push the boundary of what's possible without alr…

I don't understand why so many Science Fiction authors attempt push the limits of material science while clearly being almost entirely ignorant of it. For example, carbon fiber composites do bend. You can make springs out of them. Also, if you could figure out how to manufacture anti-gravity thrusters at a scale large enough to use them on a space ship you'd probably win the Nobel.

Product Design != Science Fiction

Re: iPhone 6: An edgy concept

#108

Post by coldtea »

danso wrote: post #56
geuis wrote: post #51

Folks, stop bitching and complaining about this or that idea being good/bad/impractical etc, etc. It's a designer's demo portfolio work. http://www.johnnyplaid.com Designers do this stuff because they have ideas about how devices and interfaces can change and they explore those ideas. It doesn't seem to me that Johnny is making claims about inside information. He's using his visual talents to create mockups of what m…

I dunno, my negative reaction to it isn't that the designer is breaking the limits of feasible materials and mechanical engineering...it's that, given no such limits, the designer proceeds to create something not terribly original or interesting. But to be honest, what really annoyed me was a designer who proposes a Retina2 type screen yet in his showcase work here, uses low resolution fonts. It's just hard to give a…

>the designer proceeds to create something not terribly original or interesting.

Yes, god forbit he also being somewhat pragmatic...

Re: iPhone 6: An edgy concept

#109

Post by m_ram »

jasonwatkinspdx wrote: post #107
waylonk wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't understand why so many Science Fiction authors attempt push the limits of material science while clearly being almost entirely ignorant of it. For example, carbon fiber composites do bend. You can make springs out of them. Also, if you could figure out how to manufacture anti-gravity thrusters at a scale large enough to use them on a space ship you'd probably win the Nobel.

Product Design != Science Fiction

This is Product Design Fiction.

Re: iPhone 6: An edgy concept

#110

Post by lmm »

mynameisvlad wrote: post #67
Bud wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It seems fishy to you to do a 50% storage improvement, when we just saw a 100% storage improvement to 128GB on the iPad? Not fishy at all. Quite plausible. If anything, it's reasonably likely that there will be MORE of an improvement than the concept predicts, in this case.

That's a particularly odd configuration of flash chips, though. That's why you don't see 96GB SSDs very often. Generally, they're found in powers of two.

Physical 128GB with 96GB user-accessible sounds plausible enough.
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