round your tunes!!
June 29, 2010 at 7:18 am | Posted in interaction design | 1 CommentTags: teague
As this blog showcases several projects on different interaction modalities, i thought this will be a nice project to showcase.
Teague team has developed an exploration on radio interfaces from a flat interface to a rounded interface. Though was wondering, how it works when it goes to real users. As designers we should really think about these kinds of interfaces to overcome the flat and boring interactions.
“The Radioball, an idea conceived and built by Teague’s Benoit Collette and Adam Kumpf, is an exploratory device that encourages discovery through rich spatial interaction. Thinking back to the days of old analog radios, the magic of finding unexpected stations in the midst of fuzz was both enchanting and evocative. Compare that with today’s digital-based interactions of screens and tact switches; they give us exactly what we want when we want it, but leave no room to stumble onto alternative choices.”
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“the magic of finding unexpected stations in the midst of fuzz was both enchanting and evocative.”
I completely agree…thats why I prefer radio more than listening to stored mp3s. I cherish more what is temporary. The song I have stored in my mp3 player somehow doesn’t have as much value as a song played on radio.
good observation.
Comment by Ananya Vetaal— July 13, 2010 #