Any device category creates a its own design space.
“Smartwatch apps should rely on gestures more than on navigation elements, prioritize the essential, support handoff, and create tailored, standalone content.”
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Wearable technology: Designing the fashion of the future
Fashion gets enriched by information technology, therefore information design must be incorporated.
“A lot of people in the mobile industry were surprised that mobile happened as fast as it did. Once the iPhone was released, within two years we saw companies like Motorola and Nokia go from top of the mobile phone world into basically junk stock. And I think a lot of people see wearables as sort of that next big tidal wave. People don’t want what happened in mobile to happen again, so they’re interested in wearables.”
(Laura Kudia a.k.a. @laurakudia ~ Why this way)
Smartwatches are the future, but Samsung Galaxy Gear only partway there
Just figured out design for smartphones and tablets. Next up for design challenges, wearable glasses and watches.
“The Samsung Galaxy Gear smartwatch poses unique problems due to the tiny touchscreen. The use of gestures and streamlining content are reasonable solutions, but need to be implemented in a more usable manner.”
Google Glass and the experience of experience
Wearables as the new hunting grounds for designers dealing with perception, cognition and emotion.
“In this article, experience is described as interpretation, and semiotics are applied to analyze the new wearable augmented reality product, Google Glass. Various readings of Google Glass are offered, and a prediction is generated which implies that through drawing on the traditional syntax of spectacles (eye glasses) a greater user group will be reached including not just technology leaders or adventurers, but also technology laggards. Experience takes place before, during, and after technology usage, and by making new devices more familiar to the target market, there is increased likelihood that user experience will be positive.”
(Rebekah Rousi ~ UX magazine)
The paradox of wearable technologies
Still lots of design territories to discover in the ‘wearable sphere’.
“Welcome to the new world of wearable computers, where we will tread uneasily as we risk continual distraction, continual diversion of attention, and continual blank stares in hopes of achieving focused attention, continual enhancement, and better interaction, understanding, and retention. Google’s latest hardware toy, Glass, which has received a lot of attention, is only the beginning of this challenge.”
Forget Google Glass. These are the interfaces of the future
Getting lured by the latest gadgets is indeed not the way to go.
“Future civilizations will know we were crazy when they see clips of us talking into our screens.”
(David Gelernter ~ WIRED)
