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Anand Agarawala: Rethink the desktop with BumpTop
Anand Agarawala presenta il suo BumpTop desktop
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Anand Agarawala presenta BumpTop, un'interfaccia utente che spinge le classiche interfacce utenti ad un nuovo, glorioso estremo tridimensionale. Nell'universo "fisico" di BumpTop, i file più importanti finalmente ottengono il "peso" che meritano semplicemente modificando la grandezza delle icone, e la noia di organizzare i files diventa un gioco di fogli accartocciati e memo appesi al "muro". E se temete di rivedere nel computer lo stesso disordine della scrivania vera, non preoccupatevi: BumpTop ha pensato anche a questo.
Anand Agarawala - Technologist, digital product designer
Anand Agarawala's job: to imagine and build the computers you'll use in 20 years. Full bio
Anand Agarawala's job: to imagine and build the computers you'll use in 20 years. Full bio
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So, I kind of believe that we're in like the "cave-painting" era of computer interfaces.
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Secondo me, ci troviamo ancora all’età della pietra delle interfacce.
00:30
Like, they're very kind of -- they don't go as deep or as emotionally engaging as they possibly could be
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Non sono profonde, coinvolgenti come potrebbero,
00:34
and I'd like to change all that.
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e mi piacerebbe cambiare tutto questo.
00:36
Hit me.
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Prego.
00:39
OK. So I mean, this is the kind of status quo interface, right?
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Questo è lo status quo.
00:42
It's very flat, kind of rigid.
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Un'interfaccia molto piatta, rigida.
00:44
And OK, so you could sex it up and like go to a much more lickable Mac,
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Possiamo abbellirla un poco, questa è la scrivania del Mac OS X,
00:48
you know, but really it's the kind of same old crap we've had for the last,
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però.. son sempre le stesse balle
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you know, 30 years.
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da 30 anni !
00:54
(Laughter) (Applause)
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(Risate) (Applausi)
00:57
Like I think we really put up with a lot of crap with our computers.
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Penso che i nostri computer siano pieni di queste balle.
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I mean it's point and click, it's like the menus, icons, it's all the kind of same thing.
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Punta-e-clicca, menù a tendina, icone... sempre le stesse cose!
01:05
And so one kind of information space that I take inspiration from is my real desk.
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E così mi sono ispirato alla mia vera scrivania.
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It's so much more subtle, so much more visceral
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È molto più vera, molto più "viscerale";
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-- you know, what's visible, what's not.
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qualcosa è visibile, qualcos’altro no,
01:15
And I'd like to bring that experience to the desktop.
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e mi piacerebbe conservare questa esperienza nel desktop.
01:18
So I kind of have a -- this is BumpTop.
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Quindi...Questo è BumpTop.
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It's kind of like a new approach to desktop computing.
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È un nuovo approccio al desktop computing.
01:25
So you can bump things -- they're all physically, you know, manipulable and stuff.
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Puoi far scontrare gli oggetti, che sono fisicamente manipolabili.
01:32
And instead of that point and click, it's like a push and pull,
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Più che un punta-e-clicca, è uno spingi-e-tira,
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things collide as you'd expect them. Just like on my real desk,
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le cose si scontrano come ti aspetti. Come in una vera scrivania,
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I can -- let me just grab these guys -- I can turn things into piles
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posso --fatemeli prendere-- creare pile,
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instead of just the folders that we have.
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invece delle solite cartelle.
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And once things are in a pile I can browse them by throwing them into a grid,
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Ed una volta che sono impilate, le posso consultare "a griglia".
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or you know, flip through them like a book
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Sfogliarle come un libro.
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or I can lay them out like a deck of cards.
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Disporle come fossero un mazzo di carte.
02:00
When they're laid out, I can pull things to new locations or delete things
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Ora che sono disposte così, posso cambiarne l'ordine, cancellarne alcune,
02:05
or just quickly sort a whole pile, you know, just immediately, right?
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oppure creare una pila.
02:10
And then, it's all smoothly animated, instead of these jarring changes you see in today's interfaces.
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L'animazione è fluida, senza gli stacchi netti delle interfacce di oggi.
02:15
Also, if I want to add something to a pile, well, how do I do that?
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Per aggiungere un file ad una pila,
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I just toss it to the pile, and it's added right to the top. It's a kind of nice way.
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basta lanciarglielo contro. Carino, vero?
02:23
Also some of the stuff we can do is,
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Poi abbiamo provato
02:25
for these individual icons we thought -- I mean,
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a giocare col concetto di icona,
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how can we play with the idea of an icon, and push that further?
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e a svilupparlo.
02:30
And one of the things I can do is make it bigger
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Potete ingrandire le icone,
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if I want to emphasize it and make it more important.
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per dare loro importanza.
02:35
But what's really cool is that since there's a physics simulation running under this,
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E sotto c'è una sorta di simulazione fisica, che la rende più "pesante".
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it's actually heavier. So the lighter stuff doesn't really move
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Quindi i files più "leggeri" non riescono a muoverla.
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but if I throw it at the lighter guys, right?
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Ma se è lei a spostarsi, travolge tutto!
02:48
(Laughter)
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(Risate)
02:51
So it's cute, but it's also like a subtle channel of conveying information, right?
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Oltre ad essere divertente, è anche un modo “sottile” di comunicare:
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This is heavy so it feels more important. So it's kind of cool.
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più pesa, più importante deve essere!
02:59
Despite computers everywhere paper really hasn't disappeared,
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Benché i computer siano ovunque, la carta non è sparita,
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because it has a lot of, I think, valuable properties.
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perché ha molte proprietà di valore.
03:04
And some of those we wanted to transfer to the icons in our system.
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E volevamo trasferirne alcune nel nostro sistema.
03:07
So one of the things you can do to our icons, just like paper, is crease them and fold them,
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Quindi potete piegare le icone, proprio come fosse carta.
03:11
just like paper. Remember, you know, something for later.
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Appuntarvi qualcosa da ricordare dopo.
03:15
Or if you want to be destructive, you can just crumple it up
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Oppure appallottolarle, se vi viene voglia di distruggerle,
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and, you know, toss it to the corner.
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e scagliarle contro il muro.
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Also just like paper, around our workspace
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Potete appendere le cose
03:24
we'll pin things up to the wall to remember them later,
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ad ogni parete, per ricordarle in seguito,
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and I can do the same thing here,
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e posso farlo anche qui,
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and you know, you'll see post-it notes and things like that around people's offices.
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sono come i post-it degli uffici.
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And I can pull them off when I want to work with them.
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E tirarle via, quando volete lavorarci.
03:34
So, one of the criticisms of this kind of approach to organization is that,
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Una critica frequente è:
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you know, "Okay, well my real desk is really messy. I don't want that mess on my computer."
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"La mia scrivania è davvero incasinata. Non voglio altro disordine nel computer".
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So one thing we have for that is like a grid align,
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Quindi abbiamo creato una griglia, con tutte le cose allineate.
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kind of -- so you get that more traditional desktop. Things are kind of grid aligned.
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più simile ai desktop tradizionali.
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More boring, but you still have that kind of colliding and bumping.
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Un po' più noioso, ma la simulazione fisica rimane.
03:53
And you can still do fun things like make shelves on your desktop.
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E puoi ancora fare cose divertenti come creare una mensola.
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Let's just break this shelf. Okay, that shelf broke.
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Adesso rompiamo la mensola. Ok, rotta.
04:03
I think beyond the icons, I think another really cool domain for this software --
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Icone a parte, un altro settore ideale per questo software
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I think it applies to more than just icons and your desktop -- but browsing photographs.
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è l'organizzazione delle foto.
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I think you can really enrich the way we browse our photographs
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Il modo di consultarle diventa molto più "ricco",
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and bring it to that kind of shoebox of, you know, photos with your family on the kitchen table kind of thing.
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si avvicina alla scatola da scarpe che avete sul tavolo da pranzo.
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I can toss these things around. They're so much more tangible and touchable --
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Posso sparpagliarle, sono manipolabili.
04:25
and you know I can double-click on something to take a look at it.
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Posso aprirle con un doppio click.
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And I can do all that kind of same stuff I showed you before.
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E posso fare le stesse cose di prima.
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So I can pile things up, I can flip through it, I can, you know --
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Impilarle, sfogliarle...
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okay, let's move this photo to the back, let's delete this guy here,
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Adesso ne sposto dietro una, ne cancello un'altra.
04:39
and I think it's just a much more rich kind of way of interacting with your information.
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Insomma, è un modo molto più ricco di interagire con le informazioni.
04:43
And that's BumpTop. Thanks!
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Era BumpTop, signori. Grazie.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Anand Agarawala - Technologist, digital product designerAnand Agarawala's job: to imagine and build the computers you'll use in 20 years.
Why you should listen
Anand Agarawala is a Nigerian-born, Indian-Canadian entrepreneur, product designer and technologist. He founded BumpTop, which was acquired by Google in 2010. BumpTop is a 3D desktop user interface inspired by real desks using physics and multi-touch gestures. It started as Agarawala's master's thesis in human-computer interaction at the University of Toronto; it was presented at TED the following year and remains one of the most viewed technology demos of all time.
At Google, Agarawala worked on early versions of the home screen and core user interface on Android. He also led an effort to reboot the design of the Google+ mobile apps. He was later team lead at the Google New York Creative Lab (and modeled for Bergdorf Goodman)! He has been awarded seven patents and was named one of the "Top Entrepreneurs in Technology" by Businessweek.
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