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Wahoo! This will be long:

ALL THIS IS FICTION, but it'd be cool. It's 100% the size of the iPod mini, and it's very "next gen".

I started out trying to design a smaller iPod, the size of half the Mini, but only the screen area. It was too tough to make it functional tho, and... why do you want a smaller iPod anyway?

So then I remembered how I wanted the iPod mini to have a camera. I think it's the only logical next-step in the player's evolution. However, having a camera would require a bigger, wider screen. I wanted the design to be as simplistic as the original (hard thing to achieve), so everything had to be kept in the front face.

So, the approach to this design was: "How to re-design the button layout to allow a bigger screen but mantain intuitiviness".
Now, what did I do?
1.- Turn the orientation to be horizontal. I know it'd be weird to hold, but it only makes sense this way
2.- Get rid of the click wheel (ah, that perfect device) and strech the screen as much as possible, leaving enough space for the buttons.
3.- Add a scroll pad and other buttons.
4.- Make sure the layout made sense: Notice how the "GO" button replaces the middle button of the original. The trackpad should allow for scrolling / selecting / cancelling, so those 3 functions were condensed there. The Back / FF / PlayPause buttons were moved to be independent and non-contextual, unlike the GO button.
5.- Added the camera in the back, along with the Apple logo.

The rest is about the same. The jacks are in the same place and there is no "Camera" button. Instead, you launch the camera from the menu and when the context is right click the GO button to shoot. The "Browse" menu was added because the internal memory is so big (fictionally...) that you could actually store any kind of file, as well as keeping better organized your iCal events and notes and watch videos and pictures taken.

This "Next-Gen" iPod also has a Microphone (small hole besides de hold switch) for recording voice notes (accesed via the browse menu), a MUCH larger capacity (ranging from 40 to 80 GBs), improved battery life, obviously a color display (think Nintendo DS quality, PSP is waaaaay too much for this device).

The only thing I'm not totally thrilled about is the scroll pad. I think the click wheel works so good that it'd be hard to top that.
To get the most out of it, the ClickScrollPad has 3 functions: Scroll, Click and TAP. Yeah. you tap when you want to move slowly, one level (wich I find tricky with the wheel). The tapping is basically for more precise selections. I think the ZEN touch pulled this off first.

Notice the interface has been changed too. It now displays date and time. No other major changes have been done besides new and funcitonal menus for Camera functions and Browsing.

Yeah, I'll be studying Industrial Design and yeah, I'm aiming to work at Apple Computer

More to come BTW

Description
Wahoo! This will be long:

ALL THIS IS FICTION, but it'd be cool. It's 100% the size of the iPod mini, and it's very "next gen".

I started out trying to design a smaller iPod, the size of half the Mini, but only the screen area. It was too tough to make it functional tho, and... why do you want a smaller iPod anyway?

So then I remembered how I wanted the iPod mini to have a camera. I think it's the only logical next-step in the player's evolution. However, having a camera would require a bigger, wider screen. I wanted the design to be as simplistic as the original (hard thing to achieve), so everything had to be kept in the front face.

So, the approach to this design was: "How to re-design the button layout to allow a bigger screen but mantain intuitiviness".
Now, what did I do?
1.- Turn the orientation to be horizontal. I know it'd be weird to hold, but it only makes sense this way
2.- Get rid of the click wheel (ah, that perfect device) and strech the screen as much as possible, leaving enough space for the buttons.
3.- Add a scroll pad and other buttons.
4.- Make sure the layout made sense: Notice how the "GO" button replaces the middle button of the original. The trackpad should allow for scrolling / selecting / cancelling, so those 3 functions were condensed there. The Back / FF / PlayPause buttons were moved to be independent and non-contextual, unlike the GO button.
5.- Added the camera in the back, along with the Apple logo.

The rest is about the same. The jacks are in the same place and there is no "Camera" button. Instead, you launch the camera from the menu and when the context is right click the GO button to shoot. The "Browse" menu was added because the internal memory is so big (fictionally...) that you could actually store any kind of file, as well as keeping better organized your iCal events and notes and watch videos and pictures taken.

This "Next-Gen" iPod also has a Microphone (small hole besides de hold switch) for recording voice notes (accesed via the browse menu), a MUCH larger capacity (ranging from 40 to 80 GBs), improved battery life, obviously a color display (think Nintendo DS quality, PSP is waaaaay too much for this device).

The only thing I'm not totally thrilled about is the scroll pad. I think the click wheel works so good that it'd be hard to top that.
To get the most out of it, the ClickScrollPad has 3 functions: Scroll, Click and TAP. Yeah. you tap when you want to move slowly, one level (wich I find tricky with the wheel). The tapping is basically for more precise selections. I think the ZEN touch pulled this off first.

Notice the interface has been changed too. It now displays date and time. No other major changes have been done besides new and funcitonal menus for Camera functions and Browsing.

Yeah, I'll be studying Industrial Design and yeah, I'm aiming to work at Apple Computer

More to come BTW