March 2023
Intermediate to advanced
224 pages
5h 9m
English
Content preview from Universal Principles of UX
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Design for passive attention.
Most digital products require interaction to be useful. Twitter, for example, is valuable only if people tweet, like, comment, follow, and keep up with their feed. Otherwise, it’s not. This is true for all interfaces, with the exception of smartwatches, activity trackers, or smart home devices like lightbulbs, switches, doorbells, or thermostats. Smart devices don’t require any interaction from the user to provide value or be functional.
Smart devices are part of the “Internet of Things,” a term coined by Peter T. Lewis in 1985. According to Lewis, the “Internet of Things, or IoT, is the integration of people, processes and technology with connectable devices and sensors to enable remote monitoring, status, manipulation ...