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Championing A Physical First Approach To Designing Our Blended Future

To Lay The Foundations To Help Make Our Environment Every Bit As Important As The Device In Our Hand

To Enable Our Relationship With Technology To Have Greater Relevance And Exist In Harmony With Our Lives

  • Losing Touch With Our Brains Innate Desire For Tactile Sensations And Sensory Experiences

  • Our oracles of knowledge and control have become omnipresent to our daily interactions and are designed to occupy our full attention.

  • Objects that evoked memories and emotions and served as tangible representations of our interests & values, enhancing our sense of identity and self-expression

Our Digital Worlds Are Noisy, Full Of Coms & Signals Which Dominate And Overwhelm

Our Engagement With The Digital World Is Fast Becoming Free From The Confines Of Our 2D, ‘Senseless’ Devices

THE DIGITAL LAYER CAN NOW EXIST CONTEXTUALLY IN THE SAME SPACE AT THE SAME TIME AS THE PHYSICAL

As We Move Towards A Mixed Reality Future, It Is Important That We Design The New Frontier Sympathetically, Attempting To Avoid An Increase In Over-Stimulation, Anxiety, And Alienation Within Society.

We Now Have The Ability To Move From Being Heads-Down, To Eyes-Up And Hands-Free, Enabling Us To Be More Present And Get On With Real Life

AN UNDERSTANDING OF AFFORDANCES THAT INCORPORATE A MIX OF MATERIAL, SPATIAL & DIGITAL HAS BECOME CRUCIAL AND EVIDENTLY MORE COMPLEX

To Give Every Item And Surface The Capacity To Be Intelligent And The Potential To Become A Gateway Beyond Their Physical Presence

How To Balance The Convenience Of 'Invisibility' And Explicitly Making Clear What An Object Can Do.

A World With Increasing Ai Capabilities Infused Into Previously 'Dumb' Products.

Embracing Our Material World Again

Harnessing The Intuitive, Reassuring Nature Of Haptic Feedback, provide Users With A Sense Of Control, Ownership, And Purpose Through Their Interactions

theBlend family : QUERY

theBlend family : ANCHOR

theBlend family : MEET

theBlend family : FRAME

theBlend family : DIAL

Integrating An Understanding Of Our Unique Needs And Physical Spaces Into The Design Process

So We Can Make Technology Feel Like An Extension Of The Physical World, Rather Than An Intrusive Addition.