Designing chocolate, not aspirin

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Designing chocolate, not aspirin. Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino @iotwatch [email protected]

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Talk given at the Ideo Make-a-thon in Munich on July 6th 2013.

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Designing    chocolate,  not  aspirin.  

Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino @iotwatch

[email protected]

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Tinker London 2007-2010

Good Night Lamp March 2012

First UK distributor of the Arduino

R&D projects for corporates

A family of internet-connected

lamps.

IDII 2004-2006

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#iot    The internet of things can be loosely

defined as:

1. what happens when we embed connectivity in everyday objects.

2. what happens when those objects are designed with an understanding

of the affordances of the web.

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the  shape  of  the  conversation  

Hardware (open/closed)

Connectivity

(wifi, zigbee/radio, GSM)

Battery life

Standards

Privacy

Security

What things?

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What things?

Smart cities

Smart cars

Home automation

Products  as  part  of  an  ecology.  

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3  approaches.  

1. Design to extend. 2. Design to comfort. 3. Design to disrupt.

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Your product extends the capabilities of an existing device. It’s tethered to a screen. If connectivity is lost, the object becomes unusable because its control interface is inaccessible. Non-objects, more like accessories.

Design  to  extend.  

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Nike +

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Green Goose

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CubeSensors

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Olly & Molly

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Piggy-back on an existing product and augment it with connectivity. Technology is invisible so everything looks normal. This is Big Brother territory. You may be redefining a user’s assumptions about a product.

Design  to  comfort  (or  trouble).  

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Ambiant Umbrella

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Calypso Key

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Develop a design language that is unique to users’ interaction with a new technology. Developing a new visual language consumers. Develop a new space in retail.

Design  to  disrupt.  

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Google Glass

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Nabaztag

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Fitbit

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Points

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Good Night Lamp

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BleepBleeps

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Little Printer

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Uncanny  valley  of  products.  

gadget object

iot

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Delight  sells.  

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Retail  &  invention  is  changing.  

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Sometimes  about  hockey  sticks  or  watches.  

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Delight  is  harder  

Retail spaces will change to accommodate story-telling. Consumers love it if it’s clearly useful or clearly beautiful. Delight might not get you funded but it will get people talking.

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Danke.    @iotwatch

Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino [email protected]