Talk given at the Design In Action event on February 6th 2014 in Edinburgh http://www.designinaction.com/event/alexandra-deschamps-sonsino-5-years-internet/

1. Making
the internet of
things.
@iotwatch
designswarm.com
goodnightlamp.com

2. This talk in 2 points.
“Making” is challenging
traditional design processes.
Design can learn and use this.

3. PS:
This is not a neo-liberal idea.
http://adrianshort.org/2014/02/06/
year-of-code-neoliberal-agenda/

4. Interaction Design
Institute Ivrea
2004-2006
Tinker London
2007-2010
Good Night Lamp
March 2012

5. What is #iot?
When we embed connectivity
in everyday objects.
What happens when those objects
are designed with an understanding
of the affordances of the web.

7. Design to extend.
Your product extends the
capabilities of an existing device.
It’s tethered to a mobile phone.
If connectivity is lost, the object
becomes unusable because
its control interface is inaccessible.
Non-objects, more like accessories.

9. Design to comfort.
Piggy-back on an existing product
and augment it with connectivity.
Technology is invisible so everything
looks normal.
You may be redefining a user’s
assumptions about a product.

11. Design to disrupt.
Develop a design language that is
unique to users’ interaction with
a new technology.
Developing a new visual
language consumers.
Develop a new space in retail.

13. 2 communities
vs

14. Who are makers?
Computer Scientists
with an interest in hardware.
Hardware engineers interested
in developing new products.
Artists.

15. Arduino.
Raspberry Pi.

16. Invention.

18. Design.

20. Design.
CAD, Workshops, Rapid prototyping,
sketching, user reseach.

22. Making.

23. A maker process

24. Making.
Make magazine, Arduino
Sparkfun / LadyAda, Wired
TechShops, FabLab, Hackspaces
RaspberryPi

26. Making.

27. Plants.
Botanicalls. 2007, ITP

28. Plants.
EasyBloom
Moistly
Parrot
Koubachi
Plantlink

29. IOT’s future.
Some ideas just keep being
repeated until a larger
player gets involved.

31. A maker’s USP.
The value is in the doing.
There’s an eagerness to
build even if no problem is
solved.

32. A designers USP.
Empathy
Instinct
Craftmanship

33. The potential.
Understand the limits of the
network
“There are just certain things
you just can’t get electrons
to do”
- Steve Jobs

34. The potential.
Embracing open processes with
the maker community.

35. Thank you.
@iotwatch
designswarm.com
goodnightlamp.com