This is the thing, technology is growing and will keep on growing, that is a given, and that is good, it allows us to create new things, to make new solutions, to explore new behaviors, it's truly amazing.
Now, for us designers, it is also a challenge. We need to understand the limits and potential of that technology and choose how to use it.... and that is the key... how to use it.
Repetition of the same solution with a small variation is part of what we do... I get it, but... isn't it annoying?, and I understand, market share makes it possible for those products to exists, that is also truth, and that is fine, but what worries me the most is the fact that we call "smart" to objects that can hear or see or speak.... we well know that having that abilities does not make you smart, at all.
We don't need smart objects, we need relevant objects. Objects that respond to a particular context in a unique and relevant way, we need objects and ecosystem that compliment our habits and explote our capacities. We don't need objects that can hear us, we need objects that can interpret. We don't need object that can search, we need objects that have opinion.
We still have time till we see relevant things all around us, and we still have time until we don't see irrelevant things all around us, but wouldn't it be more fluid to only have relevant things?.
Now, for us designers, it is also a challenge. We need to understand the limits and potential of that technology and choose how to use it.... and that is the key... how to use it.
Repetition of the same solution with a small variation is part of what we do... I get it, but... isn't it annoying?, and I understand, market share makes it possible for those products to exists, that is also truth, and that is fine, but what worries me the most is the fact that we call "smart" to objects that can hear or see or speak.... we well know that having that abilities does not make you smart, at all.
We don't need smart objects, we need relevant objects. Objects that respond to a particular context in a unique and relevant way, we need objects and ecosystem that compliment our habits and explote our capacities. We don't need objects that can hear us, we need objects that can interpret. We don't need object that can search, we need objects that have opinion.
We still have time till we see relevant things all around us, and we still have time until we don't see irrelevant things all around us, but wouldn't it be more fluid to only have relevant things?.
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