Advancing the desktop for the next era of work.
OpenWorkspace researches foundational ways the desktop can evolve—preserving activity across time, structuring attention in space, and extending its usefulness as the demands of modern work continue to grow.
Two areas of inquiry
Activity continuity
Desktop work is still frequently reconstructed manually. This area examines how task state can remain intact and resumable across applications, windows, tabs, content, and layouts.
Read Automating the DesktopFocus + context
Primary and supporting information do not carry equal importance at every moment. This area examines how the desktop can express that relationship spatially without hiding useful context.
Read Expanding the DesktopFrom research to framework
The framework translates these areas of inquiry into two complementary approaches: activity-centric organization through Workspaces and focus + context through FocalContextual.
Explore the frameworkIntellectual property
Explore the proprietary technology and design concepts that distinguish OpenWorkspace.