Week 13.8 - Recommended Reading (10)

 DNH603 Recommended Reading - Emerging Trend

The next reading to be is Berg’s CEO on the experience of connected devices & avoiding the creep factor by Katie Fehrenbacher (September, 2013) (https://gigaom.com/2013/09/02/bergs-ceo-on-the-experience-of-connected-devices-avoiding-the-creep-factor/).

Notes from Webpage;

• product making and design consultancy combining into one - similar use with 3D printers with how you can easily buy your own printer etc
• Berg has created a product ecosystem with the Berg Cloud
• connected devices - using social media and a physical sound to replicate sounds...the flock is a metaphor...changes how you would interact when you get a notification...would you find it more annoying or become more exciting about receiving a notification like that? 
• I guess in regards to my A3 design and how I went for a subtle notification, I feel like it was the right choice especially in regards to the context which is more delicate. Though the alarm on the 4th is a bit obtrusive
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• 'the future of connected devices, the term “Internet of Things,” ' - the internet of things is an interesting term...my immediate thought is that internet is old, it should be chrome...
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• Fehrenbacher: How’s the pivot going?
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• Webb:The short answer is exciting and in progress. Watch this space.
• The little Printer uses the open web to connect devies. - an ecosystem that runs purely on the idea of using the internet to communicate something...
• "if this makes it easier for us to invent connected devices, maybe it’ll do the same thing for other people..."
• Things to consider - a password reminder button? feel like i went to simple for my design now after reading that...the more Matt begins to explain what they can do, the more it seems it will never end cause the internet of things is always changing, updating, bringing in new things.
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•  "A trusted experience that lets you interact with your products" 
•  "We need interface elements that are native to making connected things."
• The above quotes are very profound, especially that trusted experience one...it makes me reflect on my design that if they were to use the ostomy monitoring device and it failed to notify them at least once that would be enough to ruin the experience for life.   
• The watch the designed to get with the monitoring is a more up to date way to connect with things easier, like the apple watch connecting to your phone etc
• It's interesting that Matt poitns out that user experience is missing, I would that these days there is more thought into the user experience (though this was published in 2013 so it could have changed already...)
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• Ha! Nice to know I'm not the only one who didn't like the term. "Next generation of Electricity" i think is a better more fitting term due to its massive and rapid changes
• ELECTRICAL PRODUCTS - NETWORK PRODUCTS
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• I agree with Matt that devices won't always get better when connected. I also don't want to have all my devices connected, seomtimes I want soemthing that only does this or that. I don't want to be getting notifications from something
• I read a lot of books, so i get wanting to buy solitude...
• The phone, for example, in my opinion when you can connect it to the TV to play stuff can be alright but not when everyone can do the same thing at the same time..its ruins the experience and creates negative emotions...

• washing mahines - home utilities are definitly something that hasn't been explored and when you look at disability there is almost nothing there.
• Office equipment - Matt brings up good areas that would be good to consider for future
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•  Englishman’s home is his castle, and once you start connecting devices in the front room to the web, then things become more permeable. 
• the creepy line I think these days are being crossed a lot more than it should. It's an interesting thing to associate creepy to the connected devices - though true in some ways, its a good way to warn people boundaries that are there and that you may accidentally cross one day