Matthias Müller-Prove User Experience Architect

Sun Microsystems

Reconstruction of Bill Buxton’s Keynote, CHI 2008

On Being Human in a digital age

http://www.finearttouch.com/The_Mannerist_Art_of_Benvenuto_Cellini,.html

Benvenuto Cellini *1500 †1571: Saliera ca. 1541

http://flickr.com/photos/7634495@N02/541067538/

Benvenuto Cellini: Perseus mit Kopf der Medusa (1545-54)

http://flickr.com/photos/7634495@N02/541067538/http://www.myclassiclyrics.com/artist_biographies/Michelangelo_biography.htm

Benvenuto Cellini: Perseus mit Kopf der Medusa (1545-54)

Michelangelo Buonarroti:David (1501-1504)

http://flickr.com/photos/kmakice/2412734628/

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart *1756 †1791http://www.billbuxton.com/leopold.pdf

Bill Buxton – early 1970s, with workstation à la Engelbart.

State-of-the-art of the science vs. State-of-the-science of the art

Kranzberg’s First Law:

Technology is not good,technology is not bad,but nor is it neutral.

Kranzberg’s Second Law:

Invention is the mother of necessity.

Walter Dorwin Teague, Beau Brownie Camera, Eastman Kodak, 1930

http://www.browniecamera.nl/walter_dorwin_teague.htm

Walter Dorwin Teague, Beau Brownie Camera, Eastman Kodak, 1930

http://www.browniecamera.nl/walter_dorwin_teague.htm, http://www.pbase.com/ralph46/image/53985211

Walter Dorwin Teague, Beau Brownie Camera, Eastman Kodak, 1930Jonathan Ive, iPod Mini, Apple Computer, 2004

http://www.browniecamera.nl/walter_dorwin_teague.htm, http://www.pbase.com/ralph46/image/53985211http://west.sytes.net/archives/mac_mac/

http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/jan2008/id2008012_297369.htm

It’s the long nose of innovation, not the long tail. When you have a problem and a design challenge there is a repertoire to draw from.

– Bill Buxton

Apple Newton MessagePad, 1993Simon SmartPhone, IBM & Bell South, 1993

http://www.stateoftheark.co.nz/apple/newton120.html, http://www.gadgetsarabia.com/2007/09/22/cell-phone-history/

Apple Newton MessagePad, 1993Simon SmartPhone, IBM & Bell South, 1993Jonathan Ive, iPhone, Apple Computer, 2007

http://www.stateoftheark.co.nz/apple/newton120.html, http://www.gadgetsarabia.com/2007/09/22/cell-phone-history/http://www.movilae.com/2007/01/11/iphone-sera-3g

“The only true voyage of discovery is not to go to new places, but to have other eyes.”

– Marcel Proust

Basically, you don’t transform things by doing them from scratch, but by seeing them through different eyes.

You cannot write about art without knowing history deeply. Why is this not more true for technology?

– Bill Buxton

“I am complaining on the level of informed discussion. Write more articles and papers!”

Cultural change is possible. Just consider the anti-smoking campaign…

… the explorer is actually one who “seeks discoveries,” He is not simply and solely the “discoverer.” Instead the accent is upon the process and activity, with advances in knowledge simply fortunate through expected incidents along the way. It is likewise not casual. It is purposeful.

– Goetzmann (1966), p. xi

The opposite of work is not unemployment

…it’s passion.

Design

If you consider the ethics, you can still do great business.

Get rid of the idea that business, technology, ethics, and design are opposed to each other.

Matthias Müller-Prove User Experience Architect

Sun Microsystems

www.mprove.de/events/08/chi/buxton.html

On Being Human in a digital age