Chapter 7. Smart Applications and Clever Devices


Interaction designers are used to focusing on the task at hand, what users want to do at that momentperhaps focusing too much. This has led to the creation of digital tools for small, discrete tasks (sell a stock, crop a photo, send an e-mail message, send a text message). While these tools are very useful, they are not so helpful for designing for the long view: designing for what happens over time.

When interaction designers step back from the task at hand, it's obvious that the devices and applications we currently design and use are, for the most part, dumb. They don't know where they are; they have no context. They don't know who we are. They don't know how we engage with them or what we use them for. They can't remember what we did with them a few minutes ago, much less yesterday or over the sometimes years that we use them. They are dumb.

This needs to change.

As our world grows ever more complex, our tools need to manage more of that complexity. We need smart applications and clever devices.




Designing for Interaction(c) Creating Smart Applications and Clever Devices
Designing for Interaction: Creating Smart Applications and Clever Devices
ISBN: 0321432061
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 110
Authors: Dan Saffer

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