Design for Sensors, not Screens

We’ve all heard the statement “Design Mobile First”. Maybe its time to say “Design for Sensors First”. Sensors are going to become more and more incorporated into what we design. From wearable devices to button sized low powered beacons that transmit signals. We need to think about how we can start capturing these signals to help create that perfect, just right, contextual experience for our users.

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1. Design for Sensor, not Screens It’s all about Context
2. JOE JOHNSTON Director of User Experience 
 and R&D Universal Mind
 universalmind.com
 joe.johnston@universalmind.com
 https://medium.com/@merhl
 @merhl
 I like candy.
3. CONFESSION
4. 1 NOT THAT JOE JOHNSTON
5. THE “JUST RIGHT” EXPERIENCE Just Right Satisfaction THE GOLDILOCKS PRINCIPLE • Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldilocks_principle
6. CONTEXTUAL DESIGN Broadly, context can be defined as ‘the interrelated conditions in which something exists or occurs’ WHAT THE HELL DOES THAT MEAN?
7. THE INVISIBLE INTERFACE "User interface started with the command prompt, moved to graphics, then touch, and then gestures" "It's now moving to invisible UI, where there is nothing to operate. “
8. THE INVISIBLE INTERFACE iOS 8 always on “Siri”
9. RUN - N - READ
10. IoT - Internet of Things
12. FiftyThree | Paper - Pencil A unique sensor lets you flip Pencil to erase when connected to Paper, without switching tools. http://www.fiftythree.com/sdk Palm Rejection, Erase, and Blend
13. Wearables
14. Misfit Shine
15. SOME STATS 51% of people reported that privacy is the main thing preventing them from using wearable technology - Rackspace According to research from Endeavour Partners, 1/3 of Americans who own a wearable device stop using it within the first 6 months. 1/2 of American adults who own fitness trackers specifically--like the FuelBand and Jawbone--have already stopped using those.
16. Sproutling
17. Sproutling
18. Google Glass During a week-long experiment, Active Ants found that giving Glass and a custom-built stock app to two of these warehouse workers reduced their error rate by 12% — and increased their speed at stock picking by 15%.
19. Google Glass - The Warehouse
20. HealthKit | HomeKit Now your activity tracker, heart rate monitor, and other health and fitness apps can talk to each other. HomeKit is a new framework for communicating with and controlling connected devices in a user’s home.
21. THE CHALLENGES Connectivity Environment - Extreme light, Extreme dark Battery Life Charging Voice - undo, talking to your device in public
22. iBeacons Lots of choices, none perfect. Apple will releases its own beacon soon. Proximity vs Geo Location. More then just notifications.
23. iBeacon - resources Makes your device transmit as a Proximity Beacon with iBeacon™ Technology and configurable identifiers. Finds nearby beacons with real-time distance estimates and displays all identifiers of each one discovered. Locate Beacon Lock Screen App Launcher for Bluetooth LE Beacons. Link apps of your choice to places using Bluetooth LE Beacons. As soon as you are near on of your Bluetooth LE Beacons a local notification will appear working as shortcut to your app - slide to launch. Launch Here
24. iBeacon - How I tracked my house movements Locate Beacon Launch Here tumblr://x-callback-url/text?title=kitchen Tumblr IFTTT Google Drive Spreadsheets + + +
25. iBeacon - How I tracked my house movements
26. iBeacon - How I tracked my house movements
27. iBeacon - Project Occupied
28. iBeacon - Project Occupied Urinal Toilet
29. THE CHALLENGES Battery Life - Signal decreases over time Support maintenance Environment - other sensors and interference Large variance of signal Delayed response Active Bluetooth Randomized iPhone MAC address
30. Drumpants
31. The Smart Wig “Wigs are useful to enhance a user’s appearance and change other’s impressions because different hairstyles give different impressions. Thus many people use wigs. Especially bald people that usually wear wigs in their daily life.” - Sony
32. IPAD TABLE
33. thank you. joe.johnston@universalmind.com
 http://medium.com/@merhl
 @merhl
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