SF Design Week 2013: The Walls are Listening - Designing for the Internet of Things

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The walls are listeningDesigning for the Internet of Things

San Francisco Design Week June 24, 2013

Why are we talking about IoT?

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IoTInternet of Things

aka. Smart Devicesaka. Ambient Computing

aka. Ubiquitous Computing

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IoT

Internet of Things is a network of uniquely identifiable and interoperable objects

connected by services over the Internet.

‘Adjacent possible’

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C

WYSIWYG LaserWriter

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WYSIWYG LaserWriter

DesktopPublishing

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Low-Powered,Cheap CPUs

Open APIs+

Cloud Services

Data Network Everywhere

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Low-Powered,Cheap CPUs

Open APIs+

Cloud Services

Smart Devices Everywhere

Data Network Everywhere

Experiments & successes

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Industrial solutions

http://blogs.kqed.org/injofellow/files/2010/05/4-1024x682.jpg

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Consumer solutions

https://angel.co/good-night-lamp

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Artists’ and hobbyists’experiments

http://www.dominicwilcox.com/gpsshoes.htm

What does IoT mean to designers?

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The Fourth generation of computing

Time

Place

Purpose

Person

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Challenges• UX will be distributed• UIs will be the new source of noise• User is the new OS

New areas of opportunities

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Designing system of devices

Composition ContinuityConsistencyComposition

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Composition

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Composition

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Consistency

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Consistency

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Current Limitations of RunKeeper and Pebble1. iPhone and Android users - Average speed is not available.

Therefore, you will  only see average pace. Again, we're looking to add this option to a future build

2. International version users on metric system - Instead of a decimal or comma when displaying total distance or average pace, you will see a rectangle with a large X in the middle. It looks weird, we know, but should be fixed in a future release.

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Continuity

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Continuity

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Identity

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Thank you.

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@connection76Alfred LuiDesigner of Digital Service & Internet of ThingsFounder & Organizer of San Francisco Internet of Things Meetup (@SFIoTMeetup)