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