Connecting

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8 Insights About The Coming Era Of Interactive Design (from FastCo)

• Our phones demand too much attention, detracting from our real experiences.
• Analog metaphors are making less sense on digital devices.
• We’re waiting for new paradigms in experiencing media like text on screens.
• UX is a living, somewhat unpredictable thing. All experiences need to be fluid and flexible now.
• You shouldn’t just try to understand a product. You should try to understand its connected network.
• An “Internet of things”--countless connected sensors--is coming (and here).
• All of our information feeds into something larger than ourselves, a “superorganism” or “colony” of digital information.
• The hive mind got so big that greater Internet thought is now manifesting locally (think Egypt’s uprising or Occupy Wall Street).