Designing for Emerging Technologies: UX for Genomics, Robotics, and the Internet of Things - Softcover

Follett, Jonathan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1449370519 ISBN 13: 9781449370510

Publisher: O'Reilly Media, 2014

Synopsis

The recent digital and mobile revolutions are a minor blip compared to the next wave of technological change, as everything from robot swarms to skin-top embeddable computers and bio printable organs start appearing in coming years. In this collection of inspiring essays, designers, engineers, and researchers discuss their approaches to experience design for groundbreaking technologies.

Design not only provides the framework for how technology works and how it’s used, but also places it in a broader context that includes the total ecosystem with which it interacts and the possibility of unintended consequences. If you’re a UX designer or engineer open to complexity and dissonant ideas, this book is a revelation.

Contributors include:

• Stephen Anderson, PoetPainter, LLC
• Lisa Caldwell, Brazen UX
• Martin Charlier, Independent Design Consultant
• Jeff Faneuff, Carbonite
• Andy Goodman, Fjord US
• Camille Goudeseune, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Bill Hartman, Essential Design
• Steven Keating, MIT Media Lab, Mediated Matter Group
• Brook Kennedy, Virginia Tech
• Dirk Knemeyer, Involution Studios
• Barry Kudrowitz, University of Minnesota
• Gershom Kutliroff, Omek Studio at Intel
• Michal Levin, Google
• Matt Nish-Lapidus, Normative
• Erin Rae Hoffer, Autodesk
• Marco Righetto, SumAll
• Juhan Sonin, Involution Studios
• Scott Stropkay, Essential Design
• Scott Sullivan, Adaptive Path
• Hunter Whitney, Hunter Whitney and Associates, Inc.
• Yaron Yanai, Omek Studio at Intel

About this title

From the Back Cover

"If you're looking for insights into how to design the future today, look no further."
- Dan Saffer, Author of Microinteractions 
"This book is a must-read for anyone involved in innovative product design, new business creation, or technology research for near future applications. The wide collection of essays offers a wild ride across multiple disciplines." 
- Carla Diana, Creative Technologist and Author

About the Author

Jonathan Follett is a principal at Involution Studios where he is a designer, business lead, and internationally published author on the topics of user experience and information design. He has contributed to online and print publications including A List Apart, UX Matters, and Beautiful Data: The Stories Behind Elegant Data Solutions, published by O'Reilly Media. Over his 15-year design career, he has contributed to beautiful, usable software for enterprise, healthcare, and emerging technology clients, from the Fortune 500 to the market leaders of the future including AstraZeneca, 3M, Partners HealthCare, and the Personal Genome Project.

Edition details

• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1449370519
• ISBN 13: 9781449370510
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 501