Understanding the Connected Home, 2nd edition
The second edition of our book Understanding the Connected Home is out. Michelle Thorne and I fully revised, rewrote and updated this edition. It’s both broader and deeper…
Tag: design
Interaction 16 is a wrap
Interaction 16 kickoff. (Photo by MJ Broadbent) Headed back from co-chairing Interaction 16 in Helsinki, my head is still spinning with all the conversations, talks and experiences of…
Connected Products: Legibility & Failure Modes
Note: The following is not a review of The Dash, but a look at some deeper interface and interaction questions around connected products. A few days ago, I…
An easy guide to applying the #IOTmanifesto
The #IOTmanifesto is a great set of guidelines for designing connected products and services. (Read more about it on iotmanifesto.com.) Trying to make it more actionable (rather than…
The 1926 Frankurt kitchen and what connected kitchens can learn from it
In 1926, Austrian arthitect Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky designed the Frankfurt kitchen [Wikipedia], a kitchen concept aiming to be affordable and enable efficient work. Image: Frankfurt Kitchen (Wikimedia Commons) It…
Understanding the Connected Home: VUCA in the connected home
This blog post is an excerpt from Understanding the Connected Home, an ongoing exploration on the implications of connectivity on our living spaces. (Show all posts on this…
Understanding the Connected Home: Augmentation not Automation
This blog post is an excerpt from Understanding the Connected Home, an ongoing exploration on the implications of connectivity on our living spaces. (Show all posts on this…