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Rethink the desktop with BumpTop

Anand Agarawala presents BumpTop, a user interface that takes the usual desktop metaphor to a glorious, 3-D extreme, transforming file navigation into a freewheeling playground of crumpled documents and clipping-covered "walls."

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Anand Agarawala presents BumpTop, a user interface that takes the usual desktop metaphor to a glorious, 3-D extreme, transforming file navigation into a freewheeling playground of crumpled documents and clipping-covered "walls."

This talk was presented at an official TED conference. TED's editors chose to feature it for you.

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Anand Agarawala

Technologist, digital product designer

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Anand Agarawala's job: to imagine and build the computers you'll use in 20 years.