On the Future of Convenience and Design
posted on 12 April 2011 | posted in
Technology
Having studied electronics - from pin diodes to memory storage devices - I can tell you that the future is only going to bring us more electronic gadgets as manufacturing costs plummet. However, while the future may give us fridges that tell us when the milk's gone off, or spew out a shopping list from an on-board printer (for example), developers will need to remember that convenience is all about reducing the decision process down to simple steps for the end-user. An electronic dystopia is one in which we're overwhelmed with devices that demand our time - to type something, press buttons, swipe, whatever. An electronic utopia is one in which devices can make decisions for us, work in the background, not demand our time unless we change their settings - they SAVE us time. Electronics for electronics sake is something I've seen many companies embrace thinking that this is somehow indicating they are progressing - but it's all about design.
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