Making digital human

1 year ago

If You Need to Explain It, We Should All Agree, Then the Design Isn’t Doing Its Job

“Placelessness is a huge problem. With a paper magazine, newspaper, or book, you know where you are and how much remains based on the pages in your hands.” - Daring Fireball

Completely agreed with Gruber on this one. This is something that continues to show up in digital interactions. If the user doesn’t have a mental picture of the dimensions of the thing they’re trying to interact with - the number of products, extent of the feature set, or whatever - then it’s that much harder to engage with the experience.

That’s one of the biggest differences between the philosophies behind the iPhone and Android interfaces: the iPhone typically exposes most of the features available on a particular screen; the Android requires that you long-tap or use the menu.

1 year ago

“I’ve come to a disconcerting conclusion: Design research is great when it comes to improving existing product categories, but essentially useless when it comes to breakthroughs.” Don Norman in Interactions Magazine: Technology First, Needs Last: The Research-Product Gulf

1 year ago

SXSW: Design for Awareness: Mobile Technologies & Health

Live from SXSW in Austin TX, Saturday March 13, 2010

Presenting: Robert Fabricant, frogdesign

Growing appreciation of the need for awareness of health issues; people don’t work very logically. Mobile technologies can provide awareness around our own understanding of situations and decisions of health considerations.

Four people in frog talking about this: Robert, Fabio (“Design for awareness”), Clay, Josh Musick (“Augmented mindfulness”)

Augmented mindfulness: ‘A growing field of UX design that brings together methods for recording, processing, and feeding back to the individual or group so that they can better understand what they are doing.’

“It would be a great tool for people who have a harder time feeling what’s going on in their body. It gives people a way to ‘see’ the result of an exercise or activity in their body.” - Chiropractor reacting to early product design from Robert

Some stats on iPhone and Android users

Android 73% male, iPod touch 65% 17-and-under, 50% of iPhone users don’t pay for apps in a given month

1 year ago

What does the red light mean? Power indicator on a DVD player shines red - but does that mean it’s in “standby”, or that it’s currently turned on?

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If You Need to Explain It, We Should All Agree, Then the Design Isn’t Doing Its Job

SXSW: Design for Awareness: Mobile Technologies & Health

Some stats on iPhone and Android users