Tag: design
7 Challenges of IoT Software Development
IoT software development is an explosive minefield with more than a few issues along the road. The market requires high-quality solutions, scalable, robust, secure and user-friendly, and IoT develo...
How IoT and AR Can Amplify Marketing Initiatives
Augmented reality (AR) is a way of superimposing helpful information onto a video feed of the real world. The potential for AR innovations to improve marketing outcomes is staggering. IoT and AR ca...
Plug & Play Best Practices for Wireless IoT Deployments
Apple provides IoT solutions providers with a blueprint for creating truly plug-and-play products and services. They would do well to learn Apple's lessons.
Microservices Patterns Part I : Event Processing
"Event processing" is a model that allows you to decouple your microservices by using a message queue. Rather than connecting directly to a service, which may or may not be at a known lo...
Why Interdisciplinary IoT Battery Optimization Is Crucial
There are millions of IoT devices in the world, which means many, many thousands of failing (or soon to fail) batteries. Why is it that batteries still suck despite our dependence on them?
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How IoT Is Changing Web Development
IoT brings changes to software development on many levels, including on the web. Let’s discuss the main peculiarities and nuances of IoT web development.
What User Experience Design Means in the Age of Smart Cities
From parking lots that tell us how many spots are available in a parking garage to stop light sensors that allow for better flow of traffic, cities all over the world are making use of IoT in orde...
Why Design by Contract is Even More Important in IoT
Design by contract is nothing new. The term was first coined by Bertrand Meyer in the 1980s, and was influenced by his work on the Eiffel programming language. For those of you who haven’t been att...
How Gesture Control Could Transform Our Devices and Applications
Touch-less Natural User Interface
Natural User Interface (NUI) let users quickly immerse in applications and master control with minimum learning. It is critically important for AR/VR applicati...
4 Steps to Designing the Most Valuable Dashboard For Your IoT Project
Working as a product designer at an IoT company has taught me a lot about the basic requirements of designing an IoT product dashboard. With each project, I have gained a better understanding of w...