I got the opportunity to write an opinion piece for IBM Developer Works on what lessons from other aspects of technology could be applied to IoT. I drew from my own experience in mobile, looking at:
- how decoupling services from avatars create more natural interaction methods
- assuming connectivity issues and adopting an offline first approach
- How the hardware & software design process unfolds as a result of interaction
refinement.
This challenge is magnified when you consider the numerous contexts in which
your IoT product might be used. It might just be a sensor, but how do you interact with it? Is it by using a mobile or web application? Is configuration different than reporting? How usable are these interfaces? The list of questions can seem endless.
Full article at IBM Developer Works: Best practices for IoT development
About this post
- Title
- "Applying the lessons of mobile dev to IoT"
- Published on
- Wednesday, September 2nd 2015
- Tags
- physical computing development ubicomp IoT mobile
- Author
- ajfisher
- License
- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 International License
- Permanent source
- https://www.ajfisher.me/2015/09/02/iot-mobile-practices/