Feeding the Cats—Cooper

As part of their “Drawing Board” narrated slideshow series, the folks at Cooper take a look at badly-designed automatic cat feeders, and suggest some improvements.


Duration: 2 minutes

Future Vision Montage—Microsoft

Here’s an interesting future concept video from Microsoft Office Labs. (You can view a longer version here.)


Duration: 2 minutes

Augmented (hyper)Reality: Domestic Robocop—Keiichi Matsuda

Here’s a nice concept video by Keiichi Matsuda showing a dystopian near-future vision of augmented reality (via Adam Little).

Curious Displays—Julia Tsao

Here’s an interesting concept video from the graduation thesis of Julia Yu Tsao (Art Center College of Design). Be sure to check out the project site (especially the “accessories” section!).

Mag+ — Bonnier/Berg

Here’s an extremely polished and quite beautiful concept video produced by Berg for Bonnier (publisher of Popular Science). (Kicker Studio will also be involved in the next stage of the project.)

The Future of Integrated Health Care — Ergonomidesign

This concept video from Ergonomidesign shows their vision of the future of health care.

Next-generation Office Wall Prototype — Microsoft

Yusuf Mehdi of Microsoft demonstrates a vision of the office of the future, using the walls as giant touch-screen displays. It even has what could be called the spiritual successor to Clippy (although he is much less obnoxious, in a Knowledge Navigator kind of way). (IAB MIXX conference, September 2009)

10/GUI — Clayton Miller

Here’s a nice concept video from Clayton Miller showing how the desktop could be reimagined to benefit from expanding interaction bandwidth by using all ten fingers (multi-touch) instead of just a single pointer (project site).

Echo — Eilidh Dickson

These two videos are part of Eilidh Dickson’s final year project at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design (CIID). It’s a nice example of the use of video for exploring and demonstrating concepts.

Starfire — Bruce Tognazzini (Sun, 1994)

This classic corporate future vision video was the brainchild of Bruce Tognazzini (at the time of Sun Microsystems). Starfire looked ten years ahead to a day in the life of a knowledge worker in 2004.

See Adam Little’s Johnny Holland article, “Communicating UX Through Video: 3. Future Scenarios” for more examples of using video to present future scenarios.

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