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If you want to spot the next thing, Buxton argues, you just need to go “prospecting and mining”—looking for concepts that are already successful in one field so you can bring them to another. Buxton particularly recommends prospecting the musical world, because musicians invent gadgets and interfaces that are robust and sturdy yet creatively cool—like guitar pedals. When a team led by Buxton developed the interface for Maya, a 3-D design tool, he heavily plundered music hardware and software. (“There’s normal spec, there’s military spec, and there’s rock spec,” he jokes.)

hclapp219 wrote:At least according to the Bill Buxton, a researcher at Microsoft:

If you want to spot the next thing, Buxton argues, you just need to go “prospecting and mining”—looking for concepts that are already successful in one field so you can bring them to another. Buxton particularly recommends prospecting the musical world, because musicians invent gadgets and interfaces that are robust and sturdy yet creatively cool—like guitar pedals. When a team led by Buxton developed the interface for Maya, a 3-D design tool, he heavily plundered music hardware and software. (“There’s normal spec, there’s military spec, and there’s rock spec,” he jokes.)

Full article is here: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/07/s ... akthrough/