Comments for Designing Devices http://www.designingdevices.com Articles on Device Design Fri, 28 Oct 2011 22:37:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Comment on What is a Device? by Dan http://www.designingdevices.com/what-is-a-device/comment-page-1/#comment-109 Dan Fri, 28 Oct 2011 22:37:18 +0000 http://www.designingdevices.com/what-is-a-device/#comment-109 Yeah, I said "generally not a fixed location" but I think you're right: a dishwasher is a device, and it's fixed because it has to be to work. Yeah, I said “generally not a fixed location” but I think you’re right: a dishwasher is a device, and it’s fixed because it has to be to work.

]]> Comment on What is a Device? by Jeanine Harriman http://www.designingdevices.com/what-is-a-device/comment-page-1/#comment-108 Jeanine Harriman Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:29:43 +0000 http://www.designingdevices.com/what-is-a-device/#comment-108 Hi Dan, This is great work, and very relevant to me right now. Thanks for putting it out there. One question: is it really true that all devices have no fixed location? I think this is true for portable or mobile devices, but what about things like stoves, thermostats, etc.? What about an GPS system in a car? A vibration analyzer attached to a processing unit in a factory? Do these not count as devices? Is Nest not a device? Would love to hear your thoughts. Thanks, Jeanine Hi Dan,

This is great work, and very relevant to me right now. Thanks for putting it out there. One question: is it really true that all devices have no fixed location? I think this is true for portable or mobile devices, but what about things like stoves, thermostats, etc.? What about an GPS system in a car? A vibration analyzer attached to a processing unit in a factory? Do these not count as devices? Is Nest not a device?

Would love to hear your thoughts.

Thanks,
Jeanine

]]> Comment on To Screen or Not to Screen by Dan http://www.designingdevices.com/to-screen-or-not-to-screen/comment-page-1/#comment-93 Dan Thu, 01 Sep 2011 14:03:16 +0000 http://www.designingdevices.com/to-screen-or-not-to-screen/#comment-93 Unfortunately, I don't have any other LED resources. There is a whole conference called "Designing with LEDs" that might be a source of further info. If you find something, let me know! Unfortunately, I don’t have any other LED resources. There is a whole conference called “Designing with LEDs” that might be a source of further info. If you find something, let me know!

]]> Comment on To Screen or Not to Screen by vilandra003 http://www.designingdevices.com/to-screen-or-not-to-screen/comment-page-1/#comment-92 vilandra003 Thu, 01 Sep 2011 10:32:06 +0000 http://www.designingdevices.com/to-screen-or-not-to-screen/#comment-92 Great articles about designing devices. I am designing a terminal for payment and wanted to aks if you have any futher information or tipps for literature for the design of LEDs and light interaction. Thank you in advance. Great articles about designing devices. I am designing a terminal for payment and wanted to aks if you have any futher information or tipps for literature for the design of LEDs and light interaction. Thank you in advance.

]]> Comment on To Screen or Not to Screen by Paul May http://www.designingdevices.com/to-screen-or-not-to-screen/comment-page-1/#comment-90 Paul May Thu, 09 Jun 2011 20:40:47 +0000 http://www.designingdevices.com/to-screen-or-not-to-screen/#comment-90 This is exactly the article I needed today; thinking about a thing I'd like to take from my brain and into the world. In my brain it had a screen, now it doesn't. This is exactly the article I needed today; thinking about a thing I’d like to take from my brain and into the world. In my brain it had a screen, now it doesn’t.

]]> Comment on Controls are Choices by Kicker Studio: Essential Interaction Design Essays and Articles http://www.designingdevices.com/controls-are-choices/comment-page-1/#comment-77 Kicker Studio: Essential Interaction Design Essays and Articles Fri, 24 Sep 2010 18:28:09 +0000 http://www.designingdevices.com/controls-are-choices/#comment-77 [...] Saffer, “Controls are Choices” [...] [...] Saffer, “Controls are Choices” [...]

]]> Comment on A Taxonomy of Device Forms by Daniel http://www.designingdevices.com/a-taxonomy-of-device-forms/comment-page-1/#comment-73 Daniel Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:05:14 +0000 http://www.designingdevices.com/a-taxonomy-of-device-forms/#comment-73 Dan, This is a very interesting framework, especially if we see it as a continuum, not a discrete scale. Apple's announcements this week really show that: The apple TV was a "box" but it's getting closer to a Tab. The iPod line got as "dotty" as it could with the shuffle. But the nano fits more closely into their continuum now. Choosing the right form factor for a device has to do with the whole product ecosystem: Some products are disappearing, some are being swallowed by others...but some are stubbornly persistent. The iPod touch still has a reason to exist, it would seem. The same holds true (for now) for dedicated e-readers, even though the Kindle functionality has been subsumed by any number of other mobile devices. Dan, This is a very interesting framework, especially if we see it as a continuum, not a discrete scale. Apple’s announcements this week really show that: The apple TV was a “box” but it’s getting closer to a Tab. The iPod line got as “dotty” as it could with the shuffle. But the nano fits more closely into their continuum now.
Choosing the right form factor for a device has to do with the whole product ecosystem: Some products are disappearing, some are being swallowed by others…but some are stubbornly persistent. The iPod touch still has a reason to exist, it would seem.
The same holds true (for now) for dedicated e-readers, even though the Kindle functionality has been subsumed by any number of other mobile devices.

]]> Comment on Where The Controls Are by Kicker Studio: Kicker Tea Project: Selecting a Direction, Functional Cartography http://www.designingdevices.com/where-the-controls-are/comment-page-1/#comment-55 Kicker Studio: Kicker Tea Project: Selecting a Direction, Functional Cartography Thu, 01 Jul 2010 21:11:09 +0000 http://www.designingdevices.com/where-the-controls-are/#comment-55 [...] Setting brewing time, for instance. We’ve had to do a complicated functional cartography to distribute the functionality and feedback onto the several pieces of the product, and even, in some rare cases, move them to an [...] [...] Setting brewing time, for instance. We’ve had to do a complicated functional cartography to distribute the functionality and feedback onto the several pieces of the product, and even, in some rare cases, move them to an [...]

]]> Comment on Controls are Choices by Designing Devices | Where The Controls Are http://www.designingdevices.com/controls-are-choices/comment-page-1/#comment-52 Designing Devices | Where The Controls Are Thu, 03 Jun 2010 18:33:18 +0000 http://www.designingdevices.com/controls-are-choices/#comment-52 [...] another choice then, for designers, is not just which controls to have, but where to put them: on, near, or [...] [...] another choice then, for designers, is not just which controls to have, but where to put them: on, near, or [...]

]]> Comment on A Taxonomy of Device Forms by Table Dreams « Josh On Design http://www.designingdevices.com/a-taxonomy-of-device-forms/comment-page-1/#comment-28 Table Dreams « Josh On Design Wed, 27 Jan 2010 02:39:42 +0000 http://www.designingdevices.com/a-taxonomy-of-device-forms/#comment-28 [...] A Taxonomy of Device Forms [...] [...] A Taxonomy of Device Forms [...]

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