Introduce AMOLED 
Where screens are headed 
Device Disappearance 
Building blocks 
Quick ideas
Phone bashing 
Swarm of bees 
Star Trek reference 
Alcohol pun 
Forlorn looking puppy
1970s – 
1990s 
1960s 
1950 
s 
OLED (organic light-emitting diode)
AM-OLED 
Advantages 
Lower cost 
Lightweight 
Flexible 
Wider viewing angles 
Brightness 
Power efficient 
Thinner 
Fast response time 
(2010) 
Active Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode
LG flexible plastic ePaper (2010)
Samsung Flexible AMOLED Display 
(2011)
LG flexible plastic ePaper (2012)
E Ink Mobius Flexible Display (2013)
E Ink Mobius Flexible Display (2013)
Sony Digital Paper Prototype (2013)
Corning® Gorilla® Glass 3 bends 75 to 80 degrees 
(2014)
LG G Flex D958 Curved P-OLED Phone (2014)
$38 Datawind UbiSlate 7Ci (2014)
Digital screens are now paper, like we've always wanted 
Weight reduction (63 grams) 
Rugged (floats rather than falls) 
Touch enabled 
Hand can rest on the screen 
3 week battery life 
Cheap to produce 
Summary
So what happened?
All of this… 
Investment vs. Adoption 
Supply of indium-tin-oxide 
South Korea investment (2009 / 2010) 
Real AMOLED = OLED + Graphene 
Consumer readiness
What will happen?
Paddle by Hasselt University iMinds (2014)
Nickolay Lamm and Matteo Gianni
Schoolpost
SET Solution
James Ivaldi
Future design challenges 
Design on metal and metallic surfaces 
Design for wide wide screen 
Design for continuous screen 
Design for tiny screen 
Design for transparency
Newspaper Design Returns
“It is part of the age-old 
habit of using new means 
for old purposes instead of 
discovering what are the 
new goals contained in the 
new means.” 
From Cliché to Archetype (1970)
We can do better 
Tricorder Smartphone
Device Disappearance 
W H Y N O W ?
Dependence
Dependence 
Commands
Dependence 
Commands 
Cost
Dependence 
Commands 
Cost 
Alternate reality
Inter-connected 
Intra-connected
1 
“Device” as a concept 
is too small
2 
Removal of stuff, actions, 
behaviors and scenarios 
from our lives
I Forgot My Phone (Miles Crawford)
3 
Fallacy or contradiction in 
the “connected generation” 
or “connected self”
2012 
7.046 Billion 
2019 
9.4 Billion
Pollen boy on the sun (Navajo)
4 
We’re starting to 
experience device fatigue
I M M E D I A T E F U T U R E 
We will see paper thin screens 
Stuff is gonna get in the way 
We must design for all of it 
We should visualize a future
Building blocks
B U I L D I N G B L O C K S 
Promote Connectedness
B U I L D I N G B L O C K S 
Promote Connectedness 
Create Time
“[what if] the performer 
plays a song specially for 
video taking in the 
beginning featuring 
photo/video friendly light 
effects, and for the rest of 
the show there is a 
photo/video restriction in 
place?” 
From FastCompany.Design (2014)
B U I L D I N G B L O C K S 
Promote Connectedness 
Create Time 
Close Literacy Gaps
B U I L D I N G B L O C K S 
Promote Connectedness 
Create Time 
Close Literacy Gaps 
Achieve Ubiquity
“We used to have separate 
categories of device: 
washing machines, VCRs, 
phones, cars, but now we 
just have computers in 
different cases.” 
From The Coming Civil War over General Purpose Computing
B U I L D I N G B L O C K S 
Promote Connectedness 
Create Time 
Close Literacy Gaps 
Achieve Ubiquity
B U I L D I N G B L O C K S
Evaporative Data 
C R E D I T : L O U S A G E R
Ideas for the road 
( W H A T I W A N T T O S E E H A P P E N )
Zones of freedom
Gestural language 
собака 
perro 
سگ
Folds, bends and percussive gestures
Collecting and bundling
Spatial arrangement
Food and product labels
Digital scrolls
Playstation Portable 2 Concept (2008)
Our next startup 
( T H E U L T I M A T E E X A M P L E )
History, favorites, allergies, social, etc.
Brandon Schmittling, "Death to All Devices"
Brandon Schmittling, "Death to All Devices"
Brandon Schmittling, "Death to All Devices"

Brandon Schmittling, "Death to All Devices"

Editor's Notes

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