The Live Mesh Travel Application provides travelers with access to their most current travel information, as well as social and planning functions at any point of their journey. This concept addresses the traveler's need to learn about changes in their flight plans and/or hotel accommodations, entertainment opportunities at their destination and share itinerary information with friends and family. This concept is an integrated solution supporting dramatic improvements in the experience of a trip for the travelers and business opportunities for travel companies.

GlowCaps help people take important medications every day. The Internet-connected caps fit on existing prescription pill bottles and raise medication adherence.  The GlowCap uses light and sound to signal when it is time to take any daily medication. If the bottle is not opened after a few hours, a call reminds the patient. GlowCaps also help with refills by connecting a patient to their pharmacy as pills deplete.  They are different from automated pill dispensers or reminder services because they address each of the root, behavioral causes of non-adherence.

Litl OS is the web-oriented operating system powering the litl webbook and it is designed to remove the barriers between you and web content.  It is extremely simple to use and eliminates the clutter and distractions of traditional computer interfaces, which have pre-web origins.  It is entirely maintenance-free: upgrades are done automatically overnight via the internet; the user need never install another service pack or antiviral upgrade again.  Litl OS' unique design allows maximum use of screen area while keeping different web sessions open as cards.

This is a next generation real estate concept for Pacific Northwest real estate brokerage John L. Scott (sponsored in part by Microsoft). The concept consists of a web site and application that help buyers, sellers and agents through today’s home buying and selling process.  The web site and application bring together information from multiple sources and provide buyers and sellers with sophisticated tools for finding, storing, organizing and analyzing real estate information as well as sharing it with others.

FlightPath is an iconic in-flight experience that integrates relevant trip information with entertainment, providing airline passengers with a three-dimensional, touch-based software experience that allows them to "travel" between information destinations (e.g., points of interest passing below you in real time, or the cities you will be leaving and flying to throughout your trip).  With FlightPath, you can plan activities around your destination or layover, booking entertainment and services on the ground, even before you arrive.

Microsoft Project 2010 is a software product that makes project planning easier than ever before. It provides intuitive tools that allow information workers around the world to create, manage and share any kind of project plan. Its design abstracts core planning concepts and introduces a clean and compelling visual language; by doing so it helps people get familiar with project planning quickly and intuitively.

Contact: Danielle Hamel: dhamel@microsoft.com

Ovi Suite 2.0 is a desktop software application that connects your Nokia mobile phone to your PC and the services offered by Ovi.com. The free app makes it easy for you to add and back up the files stored on your phone — contacts, messages, music, maps, photos, videos, etc. — and keep your phone’s functionality current with the latest updates to its firmware (i.e., operating system). Ovi Suite 2.0 is a simplified, more accessible version of a product introduced by Nokia in 2007.

Contact: Katie Clark: kclark@ideo.com

The Lexmark Desktop UI Strategy helped Lexmark reach new consumers who have high printing and copying needs but low tolerance for complexity. Lexmark’s control panels were bogged down with buttons and seldom-used features that were confusing to set up and use. Our new UI strategy creates an interactive product experience and achieves simplicity through a purposeful hierarchy of buttons and menus. Most-used features are organized sequentially across the top of the control panel, allowing users to work intuitively from left to right.

“Impact” is a series of design proposals that help consumers improve their residential energy efficiency by exposing and helping manage consumption in encouraging ways. Our concepts leverage Smart Grid capabilities like electricity price information and smart appliances along with knowledge of design for effective behavioral change. Our solutions would raise awareness, inform decisions as they're made, provide motivation for change, and even provide new capability without adding extra effort or inconvenience.

(RED)WIRE is a digital music service that raises awareness and money for fighting AIDS in Africa while building a community of interconnected users. Each week, it delivers two songs (one from a major artist and one from an emerging artist), plus a fun or inspiring piece that’s not music (a digital short, photography or a reading from artists, actors and others).  As tunes travel the (RED)WIRE network, listeners can add their own images, words and phrases.