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In this photo-simulation of a prototype desk by Microsoft’s Envisioning Lab, hardware and software are seamless.
Photography: Courtesy microsoft

“you need to make space adjustable and be willing to break from established models...”

back at microsoft, snavely is exploring this future unknown territory where technology and designed —Felice L. Silverman, IIDA, president, Silverman Trykowski Associates space will increasingly merge. For the company’s Envisioning Lab, he leads In one sense, next Door does change, since it’s designed the group developing prototypes for the future office, to be highly flexible. “Every time I go there it looks a little investigating the potential of “natural user interfaces” such different depending on the event that day,” says Elizabeth as voice, gesture, and touch commands. one project at very spenko, content guide at IDEo. And while state Farm initial stages of development is an interactive desk-office hopes next Door will be a fixture in the community, they space with horizontal and vertical multitouch surfaces and will continue to evolve the space given ongoing feedback displays, eliminating the need for hardware, pen, and paper. from customers. It’s important to note that snavely’s philosophy is to begin not too long ago, an open-ended design was a radical notion. design with the human need (as with AoL’s whiteboard Today, as technology forever mutates from old version to walls), not with the technical application and its new, our designed spaces must allow for inevitable change. capabilities. This focus might help us think twice about In health-care design, silverman is focused on anticipating how technology, if not well designed and thoughtfully next generation media, such as doctors’ increasing use of integrated into physical places, can undermine its electronic records, laptops, and iPads. “you need to make potential to connect us, ultimately negating what makes space adjustable and be willing to break from established places unique and irreplaceable. models, since new technologies will inevitably change room configurations and impact space planning,” she says.

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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of IIDA Perspective - Fall/Winter 2011

IIDA Perspective - Fall/Winter 2011
From IIDA
Contents
Q+A
Open Source
Power Tools
CEU Course
The Inside Picture
Social Network
Retaking Place
MythBusters
Design Decoded
Resources
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IIDA Perspective - Fall/Winter 2011 - Q+A
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IIDA Perspective - Fall/Winter 2011 - The Inside Picture
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IIDA Perspective - Fall/Winter 2011 - Social Network
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IIDA Perspective - Fall/Winter 2011 - Retaking Place
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IIDA Perspective - Fall/Winter 2011 - MythBusters
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IIDA Perspective - Fall/Winter 2011 - Design Decoded
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