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#dconstruct09: brian fling - what's next?

Written by Mirona Iliescu on 4 Sep 2009

Two American (i.e. little awareness of the rest of the world, beyond statistics) talks in the row, and neither focused on designing tomorrow. Oh, well, perhaps we’ll do better after lunch? Just a tidbit, too, from Brian Fling‘s What’s Next? How mobile is changing design: Are HTML, CSS3, XML, APIs the new universal language? Are we designing for the medium or for the context? Many minutes later: Q What’s next? A Everything. After so much insistence on flying cars in the first part of the presentation, I think flying cars are next, dude! Forget all about mobile… phones ;)

Yes, the presentation was more upbeat, but the tempo doesn’t replace content in my book, and no questions from the audience proves me right (that or EVERYONE is ravenous). Among silly talks saturation, a busy inbox, and unreliable wifi, I stare at the ceiling rather than the screen, but that cannot please me endlessly and I sure hope it’s not what we paid for.