Imaginary Mozilla smartphone concept

Following last post, today i manage to draw some simple 3D model of the first lineup, the FXm smartphone.

The styling is simple and honest. But, it could be quite different when shown. The shape itself is designed with ease of manufacture and fits in hand perfectly.

This is merely an exercise of form and possible internal main component. The components included:
1. Main monoblock body
2. Screen (imagine a gorilla glass)
3. OLED display
4. Main board assy
5. Battery

I build the concept using PTC's Creo Elements. This software can be download and use for free, you just have to register at PTC website.

You can get it at http://www.ptc.com/products/creo-elements-direct/modeling-express/

The 3D model can be download at http://dl.dropbox.com/u/26421721/mobile2.pk2

Mozilla should make their own hardware lineup

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User Interface concept for Mozilla Boot To Gecko

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Jaring Tani - konsep pemberdayaan petani berbasis jejaring sosial

Minggu ini saya bertemu dengan seorang senior waktu jaman kuliah di Trisakti, Bimo namanya.

Sebenarnya ini pertemuan bisnis biasa, kebetulan kantor saya sedang membutuhkan PC workstation baru yang sebelumnya pernah disuplai oleh perusahaan milik dia.

Tapi seperti biasa, kalau ketemu Bimo, pembicaraan meluas...sangat luas :)

Nah, salah satunya adalah soal petani kita. Mereka yang sebenernya sangat kita butuhkan keberadaannya, tetapi saat ini seolah berada di ujung bawah "food chain", tertekanlah bahasa gampangnya. Ada keprihatinan disini, dan ada niatan untuk melakukan sesuatu buat mereka.

Ada banyak masalah di bidang pertanian kita. Tapi obrolan saya dengan Bimo, sepertinya salah satu cara untuk mengurai masalah ini adalah dengan menyediakan akses informasi kepada petani kita. Tapi kali ini informasinya berbeda, bukan lagi satu arah seperti penyuluhan atau koran masuk desa seperti jaman orba.

Jaman sekarang, informasi bersifat 2 arah, ada interaksi, berbagi dan kolaborasi...ya, inilah pola informasi baru. Pola yang sekarang lebih banyak dinikmati kita homo urbanis lewat internet.

So..kita mau bawa pola informasi ini kepada petani-petani kita. Pertanyaannya adalah bagaimana caranya? Keliatannya akan ada pendekatan yang mirip dengan proyek "one laptop per child" nya Nicholas Negropote. Kita siapkan device dan softwarenya..biarkan tumbuh natural.

Nah, disini baru mulai kepala saya mikir kesana kemari. Berhubung saya sedang senang membuat konsep user interface, saya langsung tergelitik membuat konsep UI aplikasinya.

Bayangkan, membuat mobile app buat orang yang bisa jadi baru pertama kali memakan tablet pc..bagaimana kita akan menampilkan informasinya, navigasinya dll...bagaimana membuat aplikasi ini mudah dimengerti, self explain buat mereka.

wah ini pasti seru banget..

saya share konsep saya di posting berikutnya..

stay tuned

Webian UI concept alternative 1

Lets start designing an UI.

This time is a design concept for Webian.org. If you haven't heard about Webian, its a shell on top of existing OS (Windows, MacOSX or Linux) where user can consume web content with minimal distraction.

So, in my concept, i try to imagine webian as an web based OS (similar to ChromeOS, Jolicloud or WebOS). Because its an independent OS, it has to provide all traditional OS do like file manager, control panel, app launcher and so on.

But, everything would be web based and behave more or less like a web browser. And, everything must be simple, clean as Ben, the founder of Webian said.

Here is my mockup

The basic concept is, i try to relocated frequent task into on place, and in this case at the bottom of the screen. I called it activity cluster.

It has a start menu, a task bar, a mozilla addon/extension bar and traditional clock.

Whats different is, when user click an add new tab (that button with "+" mark), it open a address bar where user can put web URL or search anything. So, the task bar will contain browser windows instead of app in traditional MS Windows taskbar.

At the top of each browser windows (that displayed in full screen) there is a tabbed browser window name and close button similat with current modern browser UI.

And thats it..i'll post my other UI concept for Webian next time.

Ohh, if you want to join Webian development, please visit their website here

user interface design, a new frontier

Haven't write anything for a very long time :)

So, i have a new toy for exploration. After playing with motorcycle design ( and still do), trying to design a special bag for netbook (since the first eee pc came out in 2007) which is quite success (hey, designboom let me present it at Sydney Design Week 2008) in 2011 i have a new adventure.

Its user interface design..

This field is actually one of my passion since i have my first pc (my family had our first PC when i was 19 years old) . Back then, i try to imagine alternative MS Windows 95 windows botton :)

I event tried so many alternative operating system (OS/2 Warp 4, QNX, Redhat 5.0, Mandrake etc) and installed so many Linux Windows manager (Blackbox, Afterstep, Enlightenment and so on)...why, just to have an experience and get the logic behind the UI.

When mobile phone become mainstream, i switch to mobile devices. I also try many OSes just to get the feel and logic of the UI. Backthen i had try all Symbian based UI (S60, S90 and UIQ), PalmOS, Windows Pocket PC and this year..Android.

But i just started to explore the design recently, by sketching some android app.
So, with it, i 'll begin to write this blog again as i design more ui concept.
Stay tune...

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my mini laptop bags on Indonesianyoungdesigners.com

Pagi ini mampir ke Indonesianyoungdesigners.com, lagi coba cari tahu
siapa sih pemenang Indonesia Good Design Selection 2008.
Eh ada hal menarik di halaman depan, ada gambar portfolio saya nyempil
disana. Kebetulan yang tampil adalah SleevePlus, tas laptop khusus
laptop mini semacam asus eee pc.

Emang sih, display portfolio itu seperti random digilir dari portfolio
member. Tapi, tetep aja seneng..lumayan nongol dikit :)