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> AFAIK nobody has declared that the purpose of Glass is to "free us from having to look at [oure] phone[s]". Here's a quote on that topic from Isabelle Olsson
by kanamekun 13y ago
> AFAIK nobody has declared that the purpose of Glass is to "free us from having to look at [oure] phone[s]".
Here's a quote on that topic from Isabelle Olsson, lead industrial designer for Google Glass:
"One day, I went to work — I live in SF and I have to commute to Mountain View and there are these shuttles — I went to the shuttle stop and I saw a line of not 10 people but 15 people standing in a row like this," she puts her head down and mimics someone poking at a smartphone. "I don’t want to do that, you know? I don’t want to be that person. That’s when it dawned on me that, OK, we have to make this work. It’s bold. It’s crazy. But we think that we can do something cool with it."
- marknutter 13y agoI still read that as a very specific use case. I very much doubt that if you were to ask her if Glass would eventually remove the need for a phone altogether she would say yes.
- untog 13y agoThat doesn't seem like a specific use case at all. Where the person happens to be standing when they are using their phone is unrelated to the example, really.