The role of context on ambient technologies

Ambient technologies are very hard to design well. A blinking light for a new email is novel for a few minutes before quickly becoming a distraction. This essay provides a model for thinking about ambient technologies and how a designer may maximise their use.

Published: Tue, Jan 20th 2015

24 min (6.4k words)

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