Tobias Schmidt
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Presentation system with a progressive looking user interface for Mercedes-Benz' booth at IAA 1999 in Frankfurt
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Presentation system for a trade fair, 1999
context
freelance project
client
Leonhardt Multimedia, Berlin
principal
Triad Projektgesellschaft mbH, Berlin for Mercedes-Benz/DaimlerChrysler
team
Magnus Hengge (animation design)
Thomas Nommensen (code)
Tobias Schmidt (user interface design, styleguide)
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A Presentation System supporting engineers of a car manufacturer explaining the progress of their research to individuals or small groups of visitors of a trade fair. The system structures and displays authentic working material created by the engineers themselves. This original material is left untouched or just slightly modified according to a styleguide, which I wrote. A small touchsensitive screen only visible to the speaker himself is used to control the presentation, and to access the whiteboard functionality etc. A big screen visible to the visitors shows the charts, diagrams, movies or animations supporting the talks. These documents are embedded in a futuristic looking user interface. This "fake" user interface, which isn't intended to be used, but just to look "cool", transports the high tech image of the company through sophisticated three-d animations during the process of selecting and opening documents.
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