Lecture from July 2015

1. Christopher Azar
Product Designer / Dreamer / Maker
FUTURE OF UX

2. FUTURE OF UX
AGENDA
‣ I’ll talk quickly about interface history
‣ A bit about the present in cutting edge UX
‣ Activity
‣ “Internet of things” background and demo
‣ A bit about wearables
‣ Another activity

3. FUTURE OF UX
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
‣ Describe the future of technology and User Experience
‣ Cover why it’s important
‣ Learn to make the future awesome

4. FUTURE OF UX
SHORT HISTORY OF THE
USER INTERFACE

5. FUTURE OF UX
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6. FUTURE OF UX
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DIGITAL INTERFACES

7. HISTORY OF THE DIGITAL INTERFACE: COMMAND LINE
What You Type is What You Get
War Games, 1983

8. THE GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE
http://history-computer.com/ModernComputer/Software/MacOS.html
What You See Is What You Get

9. FUTURE OF UX
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NATURAL INTERFACES

10. THE NATURAL USER INTERFACE
What You Do Is What You Get
- Microsoft Surface Table

11. FUTURE OF UX
DENNIS WIXON: NUI PRINCIPLES
‣ Joy of Doing: make the actions fun
‣ Direct Manipulation: manipulate content, not buttons
‣ Intuitive and Joyful: as close to “natural” as you can get
‣ Responsive to Environment: can adapt as necessary
‣ Hyperreal/Magic: beyond expectations
‣ Social: open to multiple users
‣ Spatial: uses physical space

12. FUTURE OF UX: NATURAL INTERFACES
VOICE INTERFACES

17. FUTURE OF UX
OPPORTUNITIES
‣ Voice inputs solve for environments that necessitate full attention
(driving a car)
‣ Voice interfaces can make complicated interactions easier (e.g.,
complex searches)
‣ Also works for simple interactions like setting reminders, checking
the weather, etc.
‣ Can allow for better multitasking

19. FUTURE OF UX
DRAWBACKS
‣ Voice recognition technology is still not advanced enough to make it
practical
‣ Many inputs are private (dictating personal emails)
‣ Social norms around talking to your phone are still unclear

20. FUTURE OF UX
GESTURE INTERFACES

25. FUTURE OF UX
OPPORTUNITIES
‣ Touch devices have introduced gestures into the mainstream
‣ Great for games, Virtual Reality
‣ Decreases the amount of mediation between user and content

26. FUTURE OF UX
DRAWBACKS
‣ Practical applications are not apparent for much of the technology
‣ Many current conceptions of gestural interfaces are driven by
Hollywood (Ironman, Minority Report), which depicts impractical
situations
‣ It has not yet been demonstrated that gesture interfaces beyond touch
screens have real world use cases

27. FUTURE OF UX
INTERNET OF THINGS

28. IOT & WEARABLES: WHY DOES IT MATTER?
DEFINING IOT

29. FUTURE OF UX
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NATURAL INTERFACES

30. Web Thing
INTERNET OF THINGS
ScreenWeb
FURTHER FROM SCREENS

31. IOT & WEARABLES: WHY DOES IT MATTER?
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a
technological revolution that
represents the future of computing
and communications.
—MIT Auto-ID Lab, RFID Inventors

32. IOT & WEARABLES: WHY DOES IT MATTER?
We are already churning out more
than a billion new smartphones
every year and in all likelihood we
will soon be faced with the task of
managing more than 100 billion
connected devices sometime in the
next decade or so.
—Paul Brody, IBM IoT Architect

33. NEW PROTOCOLS!
There are slightly less than 4.3 billion
IPv4 addresses, while IPv6 provides
2^128 (≈3.4 e+38) Basically infinite IPs
For the number of square
feet on the earth
0.000000783
IPv4
6.192 e+22
IPv6

34. IOT & WEARABLES: WHY DOES IT MATTER?
IOT TODAY

35. IOT & WEARABLES: WHY DOES IT MATTER?

36. IOT & WEARABLES: WHY DOES IT MATTER?

37. Apple WWDC - June 2, 2015 More at: https://developer.apple.com/homekit/

38. IOT & WEARABLES: WHY DOES IT MATTER?

40. Google I/O - May 28, 2015 More at: https://developers.google.com/brillo/

42. Star Wars and or movie credit scrolling
HACK THE PLANET, A LISTICLE
13 Times Common Items Got the Internet And
It Was Badass For Everyone

44. fix the ____________
just add internet

45. EXERCISE
TIMING
DELIVERABLE
KEY OBJECTIVE(S)
IOT ACTIVITY
Design an experience that dramatically improves the experience with
the addition of the internet to that product for good
None.
10 min
10 min
1. Brainstorm/Sketch
2. Share

47. “we have become tools of their tools…”
(oh brother)

48. IOT & WEARABLES: WHY DOES IT MATTER?
LITTLE TINKER, A PROOF OF CONCEPT
Possible to connect the digital and the
physical world in a delightful way?
Possible to leverage the connected power of the
web to enhance a natural physical experience?

53. Pink Blob Prototype
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vryqxVCJESQ

54. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0mObbVCbNg

55. IOT & WEARABLES: WHY DOES IT MATTER?
LITTLE TINKER, A PROOF OF CONCEPT
Possible to connect the digital and the
physical world in a delightful way?
Possible to leverage the connected power of the
web to enhance a natural physical experience?
💯

56. gonna shift gears

57. FUTURE OF UX
WEARABLES

60. FUTURE OF UX
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WEARABLES

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62. IOT & WEARABLES: WHY DOES IT MATTER?
WEARABLES, NEW TO THE WORLD

64. “the medium is the message”

65. The watch is most personal product
that Apple has ever made…
—Jonathan Ive, Chief Design Officer

67. Well maybe not quite…
—me

69. WEARABLESbut why are they wicked important??

70. IOT & WEARABLES: WHY DOES IT MATTER?
Source: http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1943

71. IOT & WEARABLES: WHY DOES IT MATTER?
WEARABLES
Source: http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1943

72. 6,352 APPLE WATCH APPS
The watch launched with around 3,000 apps, making for
a growth rate of 108% in total apps since launch
Cult of Mac -June 8, 2015

73. 5 MILLION WATCHES SOLD
… since it went on the market 8 weeks ago

74. eQ: WHY ARE THEY IMPORTANT?

75. A: BECAUSE THEY’RE HERE (TO STAY)

76. WEARABLES & IOT: WHY DOES IT MATTER?
WEARABLES, BIG AND WILL GET HUGE
4,700,000!
Red quarters are straight bananas.
4,700,000
Green quarters designates first
quarter sales (1 Oct – 31 Dec).
http://aaplinvestors.net/stats/iphonevsipod/

77. FUTURE OF UX
OPPORTUNITIES
‣ Lots of low hanging fruit for Applications/Complications (Release to
developers coming “Fall” of this year)
‣ Growing user base of wealthy consumers/early adopters. Sales sticking
at about 20,000 watches per day
‣ Might be the first step in computer augmented humanity
‣ Applications and implications widely unknown

78. FUTURE OF UX
DRAWBACKS
‣ Pricy - Still too expensive and many of the features are simply a luxury
and not an indispensable tool like a phone
‣ A few sweet APIs are still closed and likely will be for a while (including
heart monitor) means Apple will keep stay top apps available for a bit
‣ Text input is not exactly discreet
‣ Need an iPhone to use it

79. EXERCISE
TIMING
DELIVERABLE
KEY OBJECTIVE(S)
WEARABLES ACTIVITY
Take a look at your phone and design that involves connecting a human
to the internet that you could prototype
None.
10 min
10 min
1. Brainstorm/Sketch
2. Share

80. Q&A
INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE

81. HOMEWORK
INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE

82. HOMEWORK
TITLE OF HOMEWORK
Exercise caption

83. EXIT TICKETS
INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE
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