This document discusses focal points for working in the Internet of Things ecosystem. It touches on improving consumer experiences through prototyping, building tools and practices for others, helping users become literate, and streamlining standardization efforts. The IoT ecosystem involves startups, incubators, corporations, governments, standards groups, and non-profits with sometimes competing interests and objectives. The author advocates for prototyping well, building transparent business processes, partnering broadly, helping users become literate, and actively engaging with the community.
4. Improved consumer-facing experiences
Prototyping well
Building tools for others to use
Building business practices others can learn from
Helping users become literate
Streamlined standardisation efforts
Community needs
6. What does it mean to be working in the internet of things now?
Contributing to a rich ecosystem of startups, incubators,
corporates, government strategies, standards groups, non-
profits.
14. What kind of environment has this ecosystem created?
A problem with definitions and principles.
What is #iot?
How secure does it have to be?
How transparent does it have to be?
19. Why are you prototyping?
Phonebloks, 2013-2016.
Fairphone, 2013-now.
20. Why are you prototyping?
Nivea Smartband 2014
Nivea Kinder Suchband 2016
21. Why are you researching?
Knowing your history.
Try not to make the outcomes internal only unless you are IP
driven.
Consider the power of spinning things off or working across
teams.
But be clear about what you expect to achieve by making it
public. Partners? Customers?
22. Improved consumer-facing experiences
Prototyping well
Building business practices others can learn from
Helping users become literate
Streamlined standardisation efforts
Community needs
23. Improved consumer-facing experiences
Give people an opportunity to experience before buying.
Pop-up shops, museums, consumer tradeshows (not tech)
are all easy mechanisms to test new ideas, not only market
them.
Innovation processes can also be used as marketing
activities.
25. Prototype well
Build a prototype expecting a non-technical person to
maintain them.
Try to bring in as much of the technical expertise as you can.
If you prototype with pen and paper, document each step.
Document conclusions well and make them understandable
to someone outside the organisation.
27. Build business processes as you go
Document your development and reporting process, the
rhetoric behind each prototyping activities.
Always return to this. You may be informing new stakeholders
or guests all the time.
Expect everyone to be able to describe what the whole
department is up to at any point.
28. Partner with unexpected collaborators, design students,
sociology departments, makerspaces, hackspaces.
Grow your circle of ‘care’.
Invite people to see your work often.
Develop funded collaboration streams.
Build business processes as you go
29. Help users become literate
Policy will come in place at some point. Don’t wait for that to
happen.
31. In conclusion.
Actively take part in the community.
Actively engage with partners.
Document everything.
Actively help your consumers make the next step whatever it
might be.