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Considering 4 quadrants in a 2×2, he walks through the four options:

1. Low and low, or “a confusing mess with old, broken technology.”
2. Low and high, “a confusing mess in the new cloud.”
3. High and low, “massive change with old, broken technology.”
4. High and high scenario, “massive change in the new cloud.”

Massive Change in the New Cloud 2x2 image

The concept of a “MASSIVE CHANGE IN A NEW CLOUD” is a wonderful concept with high tshirt possibilities (I can’t get off my uncontrollable desire to make a tshirt slogan out of everything … I finally printed/ordered my Tibor Kalman, “Consuption is a treatable disease.” and am actually wearing it today!).

People stopped believing that houses had to be real, “cloud design” came to be and “brixels” instead of bricks were the new building blocks of tomorrow. Mobile, interlocking, hi-tech pieces that are cheaper than bricks make up the new standard for construction and housing.

A short, but interesting four-part scenario of one possible future. Sterling’s amazingly fun at rolling with these ideas and breathing some form of life into them. A nice example of the power of persona scenario stories to expand upon the potential of an idea.

Working with DISCOVER entailing ideas like Review & Research, Interviews, Observations, Workshop Sessions, and coming up with something like a “Strategic Vision Story”. Doing this work initially with the team and the client and users to establish a strong foundation for design and development interations.

Working to emphasize a “story” concept at the start with the vision and working it through to User Stories, i.e. Use Cases, and trying to use that Vision Story and User Stories as the user-centered backbone for the UX design and development team to come back to. Rather than having the User Personas be key, seeking to utilize a more “practical” mode of expression for interaction and behaviors through story.

Noodling, more to come…