Interaction design

ave you ever collected images in nicely stacked piles of categories for inspiration? When you start designing and are looking for inspiration you are browsing through your images but you always can’t find that particular image you are searching for. Ianus Keller of the TU Delft developed ‘the Cabinet’ for his PHD to solve this problem.

Wat it does

The Cabinet collects and organizes images that designers use in their design work. The good part is that it can collect both digital as well physical artefacts. A booklet or magazine can tbe placed on the cabinet and with a flick of a button the image gets scanned and added to the collection.

You control all the images with a pointer. You can crop, rotate or scale images or put several images in a stack. Only for scanning you need the button with the blue glow in the corner. The interaction is alike the normal process of selecting images; with he pointer you browse and scroll through your image on the table.

How it works

The Cabinet is an experimental prototype that uses a beamer to show the images and a scanner to add the images. Both are connected to a computer that controls the whole process.

(Donald Norman exploring the Cabinet)

Video

Be sure to also check out the site of Studiolab at the TU Delft.