Designing interactions

The desktop metaphor is a way of interacting that once upon a time was transferred from how publishers were working with documents.  A tangible practice informing a digital practice, not intented only for publishers. This and other things is presented in Designing interactions (either as video or text):

http://www.designinginteractions.com/download

I believe that there will be much more that we can sucessfully transfer from practices. There are digital properties that we are missing in the physical world.... and vice versa.

I have previously been working with  how to enable digtial properties for more physical paper-based practices. A few years ago we studied the Gothenburg film festival, and investigated how to keep their paper-based practice  - yet giving it some digital properties.  This was then investigated with the Pin&Play technology, that today has been taken much further by Nocholas Villar among others.