Designing for Wearables

Appendix A. O’Reilly^®: Designing for Wearables

Now may be the perfect time to enter the wearables industry. With the range of products that have appeared in recent with users and which don’t before leaping into the market. In this practical guide, author Scott Sullivan examines the current wearbles ecosystem and then demonstrates impact that service design. in particular, will have on these types of devices going forward.

You’ll learn about the history and influence of activity trackers. smartwatches, wearable cameras, the controversial Google Glass experiment, and other devices that have come out of the recent Wild West period. This book also dives into many other aspects of wearables design, including tools for creating new products and methodologies for measuring their usefulness.

You’ll explore:

• Emerging types of wearable technologies

• How to design services around wearable devices

• Key concepts that govern service design

• Prototyping processes and tools such as Arduino and Processing

• The importance of storytelling for introducing new wearable

• How wearables will change our relationship with computers

“An excellent guide on how different forms of wearables developed, specific examples of what is happening now and how it works, and how people can practically frame their own ideas for product development. Use it to understand the different types of hardware and the user needs that are being met now and could be met in the future.”

—Alastair Somerville Sensory Design Consultant at Acuity Design ...