We started with the idea of exploring expressive interfaces. How can interfaces express better the action that they support? Why we use some many buttons in our everyday life and all of them allow us to make completely different actions? Cell phones, keyboard, microwaves, " drinks booth", fans, watches, and elevators? Why do we press a button in an elevator if what the metal box will take us up or down? Why don't we have a vertical " slide" that express the up/ down movement?
We started with questions. Started thinking about the current interfaces we deal in our everyday life and we end up in the elevator. This doesn’t mean that we are going to redesign the elevator but it put us thinking about the expressiveness of interfaces.
What i more efficient? an expressive interface that is more related to the action we pretend to happen or a simple button that executes that action faster ? Also another issue that we talked about is the question of usability/ acessibility of this kind of expressive interface ( in the case of the elevator)