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iPhone 6: An edgy concept

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Re: iPhone 6: An edgy concept

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Post by geuis »

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 might be possible in the future.

The medium is different, but the process isn't any different than sci-fi writers setting stories in the future or me making UI wireframes for an application. It's just ways of exploring what could be done.

The last point is to realize that this is most likely just personal portfolio work. Some of us have github profiles and others have PSD's. Just think about the exposure Johnny is getting out of this and how it might get him more work in the future. That's the best reason for him to make this.

Re: iPhone 6: An edgy concept

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Post by zanny »

gaze wrote: post #21

Why do designers pull numbers out of their ass to make a concept sound more appealing? "Dual quad core processor!" yeah, well my concept has dual octocore processors and my concept will be liquid cooled! I mean phase change cooled!

Plasma ultra cooling! Probably still need to tack "gamer" on so you can double the price and use cheaper materials, as long as it is black and red.

Re: iPhone 6: An edgy concept

#53

Post by sbierwagen »

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…

If this is an advertisement, then all it advertises is that he is incompetent at industrial design.

Re: iPhone 6: An edgy concept

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Post by jodrellblank »

mynameisvlad wrote: post #13

That Magsafe Lightning concept would never work. Not only is there not enough space to fit powerful enough magnets, not only is the Lightning connector 8-pin, but one of the only reasons MagSafe even works is that laptops are strong enough to still be in the same place if tugged slightly. Your phone will now not only be tugged along with the cord, but will then disconnect more easily and fly across the room.

Not only is there not enough space to fit powerful enough magnets

Make it an electromagnet powered by the USB host/power supply, and use the iPhone accelerometer (or more than one) to detect being yanked by the attached cord and disable the magnet to disconnect easily.

(or do what everyone else is and have an inductive charging matt with no connector).

Re: iPhone 6: An edgy concept

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Post by danso »

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 any serious thought to a designer who overlooks one of the most critical -- yet trivially easy to do right -- aspects of a prototype design.

Re: iPhone 6: An edgy concept

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Post by pallandt »

sbierwagen wrote: post #53
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…

If this is an advertisement, then all it advertises is that he is incompetent at industrial design.

I can understand the need to re-design something in attempts to get exposure, I think someone attempted a Facebook redesign relatively recently on Behance and they got a ton of exposure from that, but this iPhone concept is completely impractical, starting with that screen curving over the borders (fragile, slippery, higher costs etc). I pretty much agree, if he was so committed to the idea of a 'better' iPhone, a little more research into industrial design wouldn't have hurt.

Re: iPhone 6: An edgy concept

#59

Post by jodrellblank »

DigitalJack wrote: post #31
chrisrhoden wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's really difficult for me to look at something like this as someone with even the barest of comprehensions as to how complicated some of this would be to even do, much less well enough that it would make sense to put in a consumer product this year. Oh, you're going to make the screen out of graphene? My mockups are exactly the same as yours, but instead of aluminum my case is made of diamond. I've solved the chip…

The point of imagination is that it is not limited by constraints. How can you envision the future if you are limited by the constraints of today? Steve Jobs is quoted in the 80's as saying that they aspire to make a computer that is essentially today's macbook or ipad.[1] It most certainly was impossible at the time. I sure like mine though. You know what you get when you limit yourself to the constraints of right n…

In the next day or two, the LeapMotion input device ships[1] allowing all sorts of handwavy detection with a tiny box.

Apple have patented gesture recognition detected by the cameras for, e.g. page scrolling.

What does this "unlimited imagination" future iPhone have for an input improvement? Nokia feature-phone soft-buttons from 2002.

[1] https://www.leapmotion.com/

Re: iPhone 6: An edgy concept

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Post by mynameisvlad »

Bud wrote: post #45
mynameisvlad wrote: post #13

That Magsafe Lightning concept would never work. Not only is there not enough space to fit powerful enough magnets, not only is the Lightning connector 8-pin, but one of the only reasons MagSafe even works is that laptops are strong enough to still be in the same place if tugged slightly. Your phone will now not only be tugged along with the cord, but will then disconnect more easily and fly across the room.

This objection doesn't make any sense. The status quo is that if you tug on a Lightning cable, your phone will be tugged along with it, and will likely fall off the surface it is on. If you make it a MagSafe connector with appropriately weak holding force, and do the same thing, your phone will be tugged less hard, and will thus have less of a chance to fall off the surface it is on. It can't help but be an improveme…

However, if you tug on it, there is a chance that it will not disconnect with a Lightning cable. There's still a good amount of force needed to actually pull and disconnect the cable. This means that if you, say, trip and fall, there's still a chance the cable will still be connected and limits the amount of distance the phone will travel.

With a Magsafe-like cable, it'll disconnect after the tugging happens, and if the pull from the tug is strong enough, it'll cause it to potentially go a greater distance, since there's no cable connected.

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