making the internet of things
DESCRIPTION
Talk given at the Design In Action event on February 6th 2014 in Edinburgh http://www.designinaction.com/event/alexandra-deschamps-sonsino-5-years-internet/TRANSCRIPT
Making the internet of
things. @iotwatch
designswarm.com goodnightlamp.com
This talk in 2 points.
“Making” is challenging traditional design processes.
Design can learn and use this.
PS: This is not a neo-liberal idea. http://adrianshort.org/2014/02/06/year-of-code-neoliberal-agenda/
Tinker London 2007-2010
Good Night Lamp March 2012
Interaction Design Institute Ivrea 2004-2006
When we embed connectivity in everyday objects. What happens when those objects are designed with an understanding of the affordances of the web.
What is #iot?
Your product extends the capabilities of an existing device. It’s tethered to a mobile phone. If connectivity is lost, the object becomes unusable because its control interface is inaccessible. Non-objects, more like accessories.
Design to extend.
Piggy-back on an existing product and augment it with connectivity. Technology is invisible so everything looks normal. You may be redefining a user’s assumptions about a product.
Design to comfort.
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.
2 communities
vs
Who are makers? Computer Scientists with an interest in hardware. Hardware engineers interested in developing new products. Artists.
Arduino. Raspberry Pi.
Invention.
Design.
Design. CAD, Workshops, Rapid prototyping, sketching, user reseach.
Making.
A maker process
Making. Make magazine, Arduino Sparkfun / LadyAda, Wired TechShops, FabLab, Hackspaces RaspberryPi
Making.
Plants. Botanicalls. 2007, ITP
Plants. EasyBloom Moistly Parrot Koubachi Plantlink
IOT’s future. Some ideas just keep being repeated until a larger player gets involved.
A maker’s USP. The value is in the doing. There’s an eagerness to build even if no problem is solved.
A designers USP. Empathy Instinct Craftmanship
The potential. Understand the limits of the network “There are just certain things you just can’t get electrons to do”
- Steve Jobs
The potential. Embracing open processes with the maker community.
Thank you. @iotwatch designswarm.com goodnightlamp.com