Mind the Gap: Designing the Space Between Devices

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DESIGNING THE SPACES BETWEEN

JOSH CLARK • @GLOBALMOXIE

PALM PILOT

Palm Vbitly.com/palm-train

Multidevice

21 device changesper hour

http://www.campaignlive.co.uk/news/1225960/

90% accomplish tasksacross multiple

screens

http://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/research-studies/the-new-multi-screen-world-study.html

90% accomplish tasksacross multiple

screens

67% start shoppingon one device and

continue on anotherhttp://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/research-studies/the-new-multi-screen-world-study.html

Search Email Text

The Gap

RCA Victor (1961)bitly.com/rca-remote

Remote control

Remote control

Content syncing

Email and SMS hacks

The Behavior Gap

It’s not enoughto share content across devices.

Share action.

Sync verbs,not just nouns.

Apple Continuitybit.ly/ios-continuity

We don’t needno stinkin’native software.

Racerbitly.com/racer-chrome

Chess + WebRTCbitly.com/webrtc-chess

Web

Sock

ets

Web

RTC

Web

Sock

ets

Web

RTC

Blue

toot

h LE

NFC

bleep bleep bloop

oh hai!

sonicnet.jsbitly.com/sonicnet

Web

Sock

ets

Web

RTC

Blue

toot

h LE

NFC

Web Audio API

Web

Sock

ets

Web

RTC

Blue

toot

h LE

NFC

Web Audio API

Infrared

DangerScreens encumberand constrain.

DangerAverage smartphone screen time:

3 hours, 16 minsper day

Oct 2014: http://www.tecmark.co.uk/smartphone-usage-data-uk-2014/

http://www.coroflot.com/Lylover/Surf-Chair

Design for people,not screens.

The best partsof our livesdo not happenin front of a screen.

Physical Interaction

Drumpantsbit.ly/drum-pants

Experiment.Play.Splash in puddles.

Misfit Shinebitly.com/shine-sync

Deep Shotbitly.com/deep-shot

Deep Shotbitly.com/deep-shot

THAWbitly.com/mit-thaw

@LARRYLEGEND

Happy Togetherbit.ly/happy-together-app

Join us on github:

github.com/houseoflegend/happytogether

Grab Magicbitly.com/grab-magic

It’s not a challengeof technology.

It’s a challengeof imagination.

There is

magicin the gaps

between devices

Myo Armbandbitly.com/myo-armband

Ringlogbar.jp/ring

LEAP MOTION

New york timesbitly.com/nyt-leapmotion

Never ever ever evertry to out-mousethe mouse.

Physical& Digital

Apartment finderbitly.com/rom-leapmotion

Internet of Things

Physical& Digital

Digital becomes physical.

Digital becomes physical.

Physical becomes digital.

Anything thatcan be connectedwill be connected.

Everyday objectsare digital gadgets.

“Software is eating the world.”

—MARC ANDREESSEN

The Web is eating the world.

Physical thingshave digital avatars.

Internet of Things

Physical& Digital

Social Machines

http://thecomedycouple.com/2011/11/17/peta-hates-our-childhood/

TOYMAILtoymail.co

Software makes hardware scale.

DangerConnected devices won’t alwayssay nice things.

DangerAnything thatcan be hackedwill be hacked.

Software is ideology, embedded with values.

AwesomenessPlan for gadget hopping

Share action

Peer-to-peer sharing

Design for sensors

Offscreen interactions

Avatars for objects

Managing transitions between computing devices could very well bethe primary software problemof the next 5 to 10 years.—FARHAD MANJOO, NEW YORK TIMES

It’s not a challengeof technology.

It’s a challengeof imagination.

THANK YOU JOSH CLARK@globalmoxie