A lot of technology products annoy me as the designers are either concerned with aesthetics or hand-wavy futurism.
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Ironically I'm getting faved by 'futurists' and 'minimalists'. Says it all really.
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I have to remind myself it's not their fault. Most can't tell the difference between 'utility from novel tech leverage' and cargo-culting.
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And in all honesty, I think it's harder in a practical sense to get the former than it is in theory in my head.
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Even when you seemingly get it you often end up with platforms like
@IFTTT where the cost of exploitation is greater than the value gained.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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The aim is to let people access richer experiences or lift people's anxieties by reducing the humdrum of routine work they must do.
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My point is that the thinking you need to achieve goals like that isn't like 'turn down the heating when I'm not in the house'.
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It's wake me up for work with some music I'm nostalgic about, heating the radiator I draped my clothes and slippers on, and a cinnamon bun.
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It's about carefully choosing a guiding metaphor for your technology that best provides for people's desires.
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Hotel Service for your Home. Not interoperability and control - see: http://www.apple.com/uk/ios/homekit/ .
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Value human meaning over the details of implementation.
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