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by Barton Smith

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2. Locus OS Interface

by Barton Smith

2 years ago

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by Barton Smith

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This project has no association with Microsoft. The project was originally intended for the Microsoft Next Gen Computer competition in 2008. Hence I also looked at the project from a branding perspective and how a product like this might become Microsoft's key arm along with Surface etc.

| Location-based operating system
| Multiple widget desktops designed around a location or activity ie Kitchen, Office, Car
| Automatically switches between desktops with GPS and wi-fi mapping
| Simplified Collections menu allows browsing via function rather than application

Designed for Stream adaptive computer system: behance.net/Gallery/Stream/191676

Note: This interface was designed before iPhone 3.0, Palm Pre, Android etc, making the ideas original at the time :)

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Eriks B 2 years ago

Nice!
wimbers 2 years ago

like!
Gordon Kraft 2 years ago

who owns this? Microsoft? Look too good for Microsoft... OK it is sweet. License?
Barton Smith 2 years ago

Just me.
Robert Smith 2 years ago

Yeah great, with a menu stolen from Sony and overall look stolen from Apple, Microsoft MIGHT win on this one.
Calvin Chan 2 years ago

Nice work Barton! My thoughts on your context oriented design plus other relevant techniques: calvin-c.com/blog/experience-oriented-os/
Joseph Lisee 2 years ago

This is pretty cool. Panels reminds me of virtual desktops in Linux or spaces in Max OS X. The widgets, well that is old hat and pretty much a given (Linux has had on desktop widgets for years). I do like the file browsing, and the overall level of polish and integration is pretty good as well.
Marc D'Oliveira 2 years ago

Continue on. Simple brilliant use of space. It would be great to see this go full blown on the market. Do you have plans to further this development?

I see a hint of Zune, a dash of Mac Osx, a pinch of iPhone but all together the way you have done this, it is engaging. More please.
Barton Smith 2 years ago

Thanks Marc. Yeh I'm certainly not trying to hide my influences. I love what Microsoft have done with the Zune which is why I tried to build on it. If I was to do it again with more time, it would probably look totally different. But concepts are just there to massage the mind. That's all I want this to do.
Philip Han 2 years ago

FINALLY!!!

Why is it so damn hard for Microsoft or Apple to design user friendly interfaces?

We see all these beautiful concepts like Courier by Microsoft, iPhone OS custom stuff, LOCUS right here... Yet nobody actually makes BEAUTIFUL interfaces to look at.

Why do I have to go out of my way and pay dozens of dollars to get the UI I want? Is it so hard to simplify?

HTC's TouchFLO is the most thrilling UI I have ever interacted with. I just hope OS's start getting most user friendly from here on out.

For all I care, this is beautiful.

One questions though, where did you get the pictures for each desktop situation? Like the "Driving" one seems awesome.
Barton Smith 2 years ago

Thanks Philip. Yeh I guess when there are so many people are involved in a process things get diluted and ideas clash from every direction. It's the reason there are so many bad cars on the road. Cheers
Gordon Kraft 2 years ago

aloha Barton,

I have always thought that the human interface for computing should be visual, we think visually, not textually...

Today's kids are learning at the "speed of sight" on the XBOX and PS3...

As technology evolves we are moving ever closer to what you have in the video, so if possible, you should Patent and or Copyright the "Look and Feel", then you can OEM the technic...

linkedin.com/in/gkraft

If you would like some help and what I am saying has value, I can help.

Gordon

PS, many years ago, IBM did a study that selected Musician's and Artists as the best intellect for programmers...

Keep up the great work(s).
Philip Han 2 years ago

Au contraire...

You should make it Open Source so this concept can get rollin'

I do understand that if I designed something like this, I would NEVER make it Open Source, but it's probably because I can't create something like this yet, but if I could and since I desire OS's to work and look like this, I would make it Open Source.

Free Domain, Open Source, CopyRight Free or whatever it's called
Scott Siemens 2 years ago

This is a really amazing concept. I really hope you can get this up and running sometime in the new future. Really awesome visuals, I know I'd buy it!
Pin 2 years ago

great concept
Michael 2 years ago

Funny on a Microsoft concept video that the icon for the Maps app at 0:30 uses a re-imagined iPhone icon, but still shows the same address (1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino -- a.k.a. Apple Headquarters). Hahaha
Mike Cramer 2 years ago

That slapped me in the face, I love how they failed to realize that the map contained in the iPhone Maps icon IS Apple's main campus.

If they had rendered their own HQ in Redmond as the icon, it at least would have only been a slight tip of the hat in the concept. By leaving the map content WITHIN THE ICON as Cupertino, the developers of this product acknowledge that they are again ripping off other designs rather than iterating off of them.

Also, the Web icon bears remarkable similarity to the iPhone Safari icon.
Barton Smith 1 year ago

Hehe you've gotta realize I did this in less than a matter of weeks as a side project my main industrial design project. The icons are the awesome Tenuis set for iPhone. I wasn't going to spend weeks developing logos and watch my grades away :)

Sorry, I updated the Behance page but not this one.
fariborz 2 years ago

love it,good job
Nicholas Marquez 2 years ago

This seems a combination of KDE4's Plasma interface (with regards to Activities and how they're triggered and presented), the GNOME 3.0 interface (with regards to the panel and plus button), and Moblin's interface (with regards to large, simple icons and how the creations browsing page looks). It seems a little rude to mark it with "Microsoft", when clearly these things are already here or on their way in the open-source world. :/
Nevertheless, a nice showcase. Be sure to check out the respective projects I mentioned if you'd like input on how to shape our UI future. ;)
Den Sen 1 year ago

i like your concept.
dude, btw. in german locus/lokus is an old fashioned word for toilet.
Den Sen 1 year ago

de.wiktionary.org/wiki/Lokus
Flobin 1 year ago

Have you seen the new Windows Phone 7 series OS? Seems like Microsoft paid attention to your video. It looks awesome.
Vicio 1 year ago

What you used to realized in the video?
Barton Smith 1 year ago

A very crude flash animation.
pitayon 1 year ago

cool!
Xtencil 1 year ago

mola!
yoniPacheko 1 year ago

did u use after effect or flash to make the video?
Barton Smith 1 year ago

Flash. Very crudely.
yoniPacheko 1 year ago

it looks good man! did u code anything?
Barton Smith 1 year ago

Just basic timeline constraints. So not really, no.
Debsuvra Ghosh 5 months ago

It looks pretty fantastic, any ideas on bringing this to Linux as a shell?