In grad school the studio becomes your home, and in a lot of ways your desktop becomes your living room.
While reading about the creation of Tim Mott's Desktop Metaphor I started to think about how useful it might be to continuously reconsider this metaphor as the personal computer becomes a more integral part of our everyday lives.
The Desktop Rug is a kind of fantasy application that I imagine might have frequently come in handy during my last semester of graduate school, while working on my thesis. Rather then taking an extra 30 minutes before making a presentation to clean off my desktop and file everything in the appropriate folder I could have hidden everything underneath my Desktop Rug – momentarily out of site and out of mind, so that I could focus on the presentation.
The Desktop Rug is a kind of fantasy application that I imagine might have frequently come in handy during my last semester of graduate school, while working on my thesis. Rather then taking an extra 30 minutes before making a presentation to clean off my desktop and file everything in the appropriate folder I could have hidden everything underneath my Desktop Rug – momentarily out of site and out of mind, so that I could focus on the presentation.