[IxDA Discuss] Bumptop

[pauric]

Good questions.  I dont see this limited to tablets and I think the
designers have had their eye on the bigger picture too.  Its a desktop
interaction paradigm and therefor has the potential to be platform
independent.  I feel they are very much tied to currently available input
devices and I see them being released from this constraint with multitouch.

Dave: "Is there always a keyboard?"
Pauric: No, but the demo clearly works through icon manipulation, icons
generally represent documents, documents invariably require a keyboard,
physical or virtual, at some point - therefor the pen falls over.  That said
I've had minimal time on tablets and could quite well be wrong.

Dave: "I would suggest that you aren't doing design."
Pauric: I would say you are 100% right.  Design is part of what I/we do.  At
a more complete level I'd consider myself an enabler.  I take pure Design +
real Constraints and produce something that lets users accomplish work.

If all we did was design then we'd build follies:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folly