A Promising Vision
Autodesk has posted a video showing the results of research into green building design through a process known as Building Information Modeling. Among other things, the scenario showcases a large, multi-touch display in a collaborative team session. The depicted user interface is very dynamic. While I expect it is completely mocked up, I’m curious as to how much detailed design has been done. It presents a lot of complex data in a very integrated fashion—this usually results in a complicated system that is hard to learn. The video, of course, makes it look fairly intuitive, so I wonder how simplified the visualization is. I would love to see some of their design artifacts and process documentation.
At least for the time being, we’ll have to settle for the video.