Spatial Interface Design: Transforming Customer Experiences Beyond Screens

Arijit Debnath, Senior Experience Designer, Thoughtworks

What if, you could interact with your co-workers digitally as if they are with you in the same room? What if you could work on your favourite digital tools & apps and stretch it's screens as much as the size of your wall using just your hands and eyes? What does it mean to interact with the digital world blended with your real world when your digital world is no longer bounded by the limitation of rectangular 2D screens and your whole world becomes the canvas for your softwares and Apps. All of this is possible today. This where Spatial Computing comes in the picture and with that, Spatial Interface Design, the next evolution in not only UX-UI Design and customer experiences, but overall in the field of Computing and Human Computer Interaction.
In this session I will talk about, what is Spatial Computing and how AR/VR/MR technologies have finally found a pragmatic home in a computing platform that lets you stay connected with your real world rather than isolate from it. What Spatial Computing means for the world, accessibility, how to assess the right use cases for businesses, how to design Apps for it keeping the ethics and privacy concerns in mind and most importantly the key mindset shifts required for spatial computing product development from a team and organisation point of view, to stay up to speed with this new computing paradigm.

http://www.thoughtworks.com/xconf