Over the last year, my writing and speaking has focused on a fairly straight forward thesis: Cheap computation/networking will make nearly any device ‘smart’ There will be lots of these things Using ‘an app’ to control each one (what we currently do) just won’t scale Smart phones will be joined by smart TVs, smart glasses, […]
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Of Bears, Bats, and Bees: Making Sense of the Internet of Things
The Internet of Things (or IoT) is finally going mainstream. Not only do I read about it frequently online, but I’m now talking about it with clients at frog. Unfortunately, as it has become popular, it has also grown to the point where it can span everything from home Wi-Fi networks to smart cities. Much like […]
Triumph of the Mundane
Smart devices require a significant shift in thinking This blog explores how to design smart devices. But these new devices are just so new and require such new insights, that our quaint, old school notions of UX design are completely blinding us. We are stuck between the classic paradigm of desktop computers, and the futuristic […]
App Myopia
Moving beyond the desktop towards just-in-time interaction So often what passes for vision is usually nothing more than tiny extensions of what is already known and safe. Of course, it’s only natural as people tend to think within what is most comfortable. I call this “Default Thinking” and have already discussed this in my first post, […]
The UX of Data
In my previous article, The Coming Zombie Apocalypse, I discussed how small, cheap, web-connected devices are overturning our old-school assumptions about devices and applications. It was a general introduction to the trend, and I’d like to drill deeper in this article by focusing on a core building block of this new order: the ability to store […]