We are all busy. We are definitely doing something wrong.
We have more things to do today than we could do in a whole week. We seem to be in a quest to be connected better, but we forget we should be spending time outside the screen.
Machines are, supposely, getting more and more intelligent to do things we used to do before, but why do we seem to be spending the same amount of hours in front of a computer.
Aside from what computers do for us, there are creative tasks we need to do on our own. What if we could work using analog interfaces, so we don’t have to spend as much time as we spend now looking at a screen.
Around this concept, I would like to share a few ideas that would, in some way or another, contribute towards giving us more screen-free time.
- Link physical objects to CAD elements or parameters.
- A paper grid that establish a cartesian three dimensional space where you can place geometries that serve as input in a digital model.
- Dots that represent a polyline and get also represented in CAD.
- An outline or wireframe that gets interpreted as a structure and gets animated as it would react to gravity. (You draw a simple structure and a projection or a simulation of its deflection is shown.).
- Physical balls that you can actually move around the table.