This is a great call Patrick. One of the things we've done as a design team is carve out time to spend on more forward-looking speculative future stuff. These kinds of prototypes or screens serve two main purposes, to provoke discussion and to get people excited about an idea. We've had these kinds of designs lead to strategic company shifts, and entire teams being given budget to build a thing. The thing almost *never* resembles the initial designs, but that's OK, the output is not the point, the outcomes are :)
That's great Steve! Yeah I'm kind of constantly casting a vision and then mercilessly scoping it. Casting a vision again, scoping down again. And you're right, the thing we end up building rarely looks like the vision setting designs, but they're still very necessary to help the broader team visualize where we could be going and what they might be able to achieve if we get the alignment we need to move ahead. I suppose they end up working sort of like concept cars in the automotive industry in that way; show everyone what's possible on the frontier before figuring out how to use the most immediately feasible parts in the actual commercial vehicles. Thanks for reading and taking the time to comment! I appreciate it! 🙏
This is a great call Patrick. One of the things we've done as a design team is carve out time to spend on more forward-looking speculative future stuff. These kinds of prototypes or screens serve two main purposes, to provoke discussion and to get people excited about an idea. We've had these kinds of designs lead to strategic company shifts, and entire teams being given budget to build a thing. The thing almost *never* resembles the initial designs, but that's OK, the output is not the point, the outcomes are :)
That's great Steve! Yeah I'm kind of constantly casting a vision and then mercilessly scoping it. Casting a vision again, scoping down again. And you're right, the thing we end up building rarely looks like the vision setting designs, but they're still very necessary to help the broader team visualize where we could be going and what they might be able to achieve if we get the alignment we need to move ahead. I suppose they end up working sort of like concept cars in the automotive industry in that way; show everyone what's possible on the frontier before figuring out how to use the most immediately feasible parts in the actual commercial vehicles. Thanks for reading and taking the time to comment! I appreciate it! 🙏