Digital screens are now as thin as paper, as we often wished for and ultimately expected. These paper-thin displays are referred to as AMOLED and are currently used in some mobile devices and televisions. In my session I will examine the brief history of flexible screens, discuss their current use in the context of a phenomenon called Device Disappearance and explore new uses, interfaces and possible design patterns for this technology in the near future. Brandon's talk will cover... • Recognizing device dependence • Being constrained by our current concept of devices • Questioning connectivity • Having new goals for flexible and foldable technology

2. Introduce AMOLED
Where screens are headed
Device Disappearance
Building blocks
Quick ideas

3. Phone bashing
Swarm of bees
Star Trek reference
Alcohol pun
Forlorn looking puppy

4. 1970s –
1990s
1960s
1950
s
OLED (organic light-emitting diode)

5. AM-OLED
Advantages
Lower cost
Lightweight
Flexible
Wider viewing angles
Brightness
Power efficient
Thinner
Fast response time
(2010)
Active Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode

7. LG flexible plastic ePaper (2010)

8. Samsung Flexible AMOLED Display
(2011)

9. LG flexible plastic ePaper (2012)

10. E Ink Mobius Flexible Display (2013)

11. E Ink Mobius Flexible Display (2013)

12. Sony Digital Paper Prototype (2013)

13. Corning® Gorilla® Glass 3 bends 75 to 80 degrees
(2014)

14. LG G Flex D958 Curved P-OLED Phone (2014)

15. $38 Datawind UbiSlate 7Ci (2014)

16. 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

17. So what happened?

18. All of this…
Investment vs. Adoption
Supply of indium-tin-oxide
South Korea investment (2009 / 2010)
Real AMOLED = OLED + Graphene
Consumer readiness

19. What will happen?

20. Paddle by Hasselt University iMinds (2014)

22. Nickolay Lamm and Matteo Gianni

23. Schoolpost

24. SET Solution

25. James Ivaldi

27. 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

28. Newspaper Design Returns

29. “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)

30. We can do better
Tricorder Smartphone

33. Device Disappearance
W H Y N O W ?

34. Dependence

35. Dependence
Commands

36. Dependence
Commands
Cost

37. Dependence
Commands
Cost
Alternate reality

38. Inter-connected
Intra-connected

41. 1
“Device” as a concept
is too small

45. 2
Removal of stuff, actions,
behaviors and scenarios
from our lives

47. I Forgot My Phone (Miles Crawford)

48. 3
Fallacy or contradiction in
the “connected generation”
or “connected self”

49. 2012
7.046 Billion
2019
9.4 Billion

51. Pollen boy on the sun (Navajo)

53. 4
We’re starting to
experience device fatigue

58. 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

59. Building blocks

60. B U I L D I N G B L O C K S
Promote Connectedness

62. B U I L D I N G B L O C K S
Promote Connectedness
Create Time

63. “[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)

64. B U I L D I N G B L O C K S
Promote Connectedness
Create Time
Close Literacy Gaps

66. B U I L D I N G B L O C K S
Promote Connectedness
Create Time
Close Literacy Gaps
Achieve Ubiquity

67. “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

68. B U I L D I N G B L O C K S
Promote Connectedness
Create Time
Close Literacy Gaps
Achieve Ubiquity

69. B U I L D I N G B L O C K S

70. Evaporative Data
C R E D I T : L O U S A G E R

72. Ideas for the road
( W H A T I W A N T T O S E E H A P P E N )

73. Zones of freedom

74. Gestural language
собака
perro
سگ

75. Folds, bends and percussive gestures

76. Collecting and bundling

77. Spatial arrangement

78. Food and product labels

79. Digital scrolls

80. Playstation Portable 2 Concept (2008)

81. Our next startup
( T H E U L T I M A T E E X A M P L E )

86. History, favorites, allergies, social, etc.