In 2008 I finished my study of Media Design, with the concept for a tool that would allow people to do presentations without the linear constraints, forced upon you by the normal presentation programs. I heard a good friend (Martijn Aslander a professional speaker) complaining about these constraints, and with that complaint in my mind, I started working on a concept for an alternative. As a VJ I'm used to presenting my work in a Non-linear fashion, but curen't vj tools are not really suited for the average user or average device. So I started on the design shown in the link below, for an interface suitable for navigation by touch and enabling you the presenter to choose your own path through your slides.
[http://dl.dropbox.com/u/322349/Fluid_presentatie.mov] "warning this is a 140mb download and a huge video as it was made for dual screen"
Nowadays with the iPad, Multitouch controls are within our reach and I just started re-imagining what would be possible with that. The constraints I put on myself for the first design, where that the app needed to be controlled without mouse or keyboard (big problem devices for a lot presenters) and it needed to be understandable for my 60 year old teacher who was forced to present digitally because his slides where fading rapidly.
I'm interested in sharing my ideas about this concept. So feel free to ask questions and make constructive suggestions. We're thinking about starting this project up again, now most of the problems we ran into are being solved by the iPad and App Store
Greetings,
Bastiaan
