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Welcome to the Make It So Index of Interaction Design.

Friends, our producer Sam Greenspan has seen the color of the future.

I have seen it. You have seen it. We all know that the color of the future is blue.

Lesson one. Future screens are mostly blue. When science fiction becomes science fact, the team colors have already been chosen.

Pretty much science fiction is blue.

1968, denim blue, 1976, Egyptian blue, 1979 1979 ultra marine

1980 powder blue blue it is inhuman future looking kind of mystical

that's Chris nozzle

sci-fi aficionado there's not a lot of blue in nature right there's not a lot of blue in nature, right? There's not a lot of blue food.

So I think there is something fundamentally inhuman about that color.

Or unnatural.

Yeah, and that really fits the technologies of the future world.

As contrast. Yeah. The other guy is Nathan Shedroff also into Sci-Fi. And like many

sci-Fi guys their love of the art form takes on in obsessive quality.

And here's the thing, Chris and Nathan are also designers.

Chris is with a firm called Cooper, and Nathan is on faculty at the California College of the Arts, both in San Francisco.

Sci-Fi obsession met design obsession and the resulting glorious Nurd Fest was a book.

Where the authors of the book Make It So, Interaction Design Lessons from Science Fiction.

Make It So is a comprehensive compendium of real world lessons that designers can and should

and do take from science fiction. So to give you an lessons that

lesson about future screens the designers can and should and do take from science fiction

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