Designing Connected Products

Designing Connected Products

Someday, you’ll be sitting at your desk, minding your own business.
Your boss, or a client, will come in and start explaining this cool new IoT project you’ll be working on. As you listen, the timeline splits:
In the Darkest Timeline, no one on your team knows about what’s discussed in this book. Your boss/client starts specifying requirements that sound cool to them, but are really bad ideas in ways that aren’t immediately evident. Your team builds the project as it was specified, and it fails in the marketplace because of mistakes that could have been avoided.
In the Prime Timeline, you’ve read this book.

The “UX” in “UI/UX”

The “UX” in “UI/UX”

If you read the range of articles out there written on the subject of User Experience Design (UXD), you’ll find varied opinions about what it is in practice. Some say UXD is just about user studies and research to gather actual user data that will inform the...