Tag: design
6 Mistakes to Avoid When Designing Maps for Your Apps
Have you wondered why every app you try to open today asks you to enable location access? Everyone out there wants to know where you are, though not in a creepy way – we hope. Similarly, gone are t...
Why Do IoT Devices Die?
We called it the blue ring of death. The Ubi would power on and then be lit up with a blue LED ring, then power cycle again after two minutes. It would repeat the process endlessly or until the us...
What We Get Wrong About Artificial Intelligence
The Challenge is Human-Computer Interaction Design, Not Technology
Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most hyped terms in the 21st century, and yet one of the most misunderstood.
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5 IoT Product Design Tips to Attract and Retain Millennial Consumers
Millennials are a new type of consumer, yet IoT products (things like smart TVs, wearable devices, and connected pet trackers) designed for millennials don’t always reflect this.
Millennials ar...
Design tools are running out of track. Here’s how we can fix them.
Rarely a day goes by where I don’t spend at least some time thinking about design tools. A few years ago, I built a design tool which was acquired by Marvel. That was over two years ago but si...
Human-Centered Design for Machine Learning
Machine learning (ML) is the science of helping computers discover patterns and relationships in data instead of being manually programmed. It’s a powerful tool for creating personalized and ...
UX Design for IoT – 5 Important UX Design Decisions
The Internet of Things offers exciting, new frontiers that go way beyond weighing the pros and cons of a hamburger menu icon. IoT is a three-dimensional world with new problems and solutions awaiti...