My new apartment has a Nest so this is the first time I’m using my phone as a primary magic-wand type controller.
Why has phone-as-magic-wand been a slow design pattern to catch on? Cost? Bad UX psychology? Bad design pattern for most applications? Engineering difficulty?
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Nah, it’s real. Just early days yet. You are falling prey to the skills=vision fallacy. Learning how to work hands-on on a technology does not necessarily mean you’ll have the vision to see what it’s good for. Many good engineers fall into this trap and get blindsided later.
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Excellent idea! if I’m ever writing a smart home app, which is likely, I’ll make sure you can use the magic wand 🔮✨
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We use Alexa powered lamp switches and that works great. Maybe voice is the magic protocol.
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Yet I use my nest app far more than I ever did my old manual thermostat
You underestimate value of staying on couch or in bed!
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Kinda weird but always felt like I was dual-wielding wands whenever holding iphone in one and hand and a kindle in the other.



