Designing for Ubiquitous ComputingBill BuxtonPrincipal ResearcherMicrosoft Research
The only true voyage of discovery is not to go to new places, but to have other eyes.
Marcel Proust
The future is already here. It is just not uniformly distributed.
William Gibson
Weiser, M. (1991). The computer for the 21st century. Scientific American, 265(3), 94-104.
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Ubiquitous Computing
Boards, Pads & Tabs
What is this?
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37 Years of Smart Watches
3 Phases 3 Miracles
It Works!
It Flows!
They Work Together!
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Complexity
Of the individual device
Of the collection of devices
threshold of frustration
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Every new product and service must provide great experience and excellent value – It works and flows.
But each must also reduce the complexity and increase the value of all of the others. Things work together.
Seamless:
Graceful:
Aggregation & Disaggregation
Augmentation & Degradation
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Seamless:
Graceful:
Aggregation & Disaggregation
Augmentation & Degradation
Tech
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Microsoft SmartGlass
In the future, quality of experience will be determined by how products work together, in concert, with the rest of the eco-system, not just by the quality of experience of any product on its own – no matter how good that individual experience will be.
Connecting the Dots
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