Personally, I've grown tired of the default attract screen offered by Microsoft with Surface. Yes its pretty cool, but I think its about time we pushed the envelope and did something other than an pond. Just adding animated Koi would be an improvement.In a blog post from headlightblog.com, a video shows how the folks at Razorfish took the challenge and developed a new attract screen for a fictitious auto dealership. At first I sighed when I saw the attract screen: "Can't we please get serious with this device!" But after watching the video for a while it occurred to me that if you want people to walk over to the Surface at an auto dealership, than having little cars racing around a track is a great way to do it.
Another nice feature I liked about Carville was when the demonstration switched to a mock up showing how to implement a 180 degree orientation where users are on opposite sides of the machine. It was simple with combination of free floating and docked items, and it worked. Designing all Surface applications to have a 360 degree view is effective but its not always necessary and sometimes its counter productive. Nice work guys!
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