Thoughts around default setup impact in os interaction design, from an article by Kevin Kelly.
During my traditional Saturday lazy breakfast I ran into Kevin Kelly’s post on "Triumph of default". Coincidently we are in this phase of the project, where we are beginning to face all the issues related to personalization, system automatic behaviours, and OS pro-activity versus user intentional profiling.
As KK says,
"the privilege of establishing what value the default is set at, is an act of power and influence",
so we are feeling a bit under pressure now.
There are two main issues emerging from this consideration. On one hand,...
I would like to share with you these articles about innovation in user interaction http://jasonkolb.com/weblog/2008/08/user-interactio.html , and in particular one about a concept by Adaptive Labs called "Aurora" (look at the video clip – also embedded below the post).
I do not know if you already know about, but since I have seen you are refining your design solutions, and I am thinking and working on solutions to provide more tangibility for our virtual data (for my thesis), I think these articles could be somehow inspiring for you too. Ciao
Aurora (Part 1) from Adaptive Path on...
