New IT skill: How to design Intelligent Things

[Intelligent Things]

Now the world is mature enough to design devices and connect them with some intelligence and should give some benefit to users. The basics about Intelligent things is - Design the appliances with some kind of software, and that in turn should give benefit to users. So this is broadly called as Intelligent things. That means the things now become with some sort of intelligence.

Smart Things presents a problem-solving approach to addressing designers' needs and concentrates on process, rather than technological detail, to keep from being quickly outdated. It pays close attention to the capabilities and limitations of the medium in question and discusses the trade offs and challenges of design in a commercial environment. 

Here a detailed approach you can read from - SMART Things - In short, Smart Things gives its readers both the "why" of this kind of design and the "how," in well-defined chunks. The world of smart shoes, appliances, and phones is already here, but the practice of user experience (UX) design for ubiquitous computing is still relatively new. 

Design companies like IDEO and frogdesign are regularly asked to design products that unify software interaction, device design and service design -- which are all the key components of ubiquitous computing UX -- and practicing designers need a way to tackle practical challenges of design. Theory is not enough for them -- luckily the industry is now mature enough to have tried and tested best practices and case studies from the field.

• Tackles design of products in the post-Web world where computers no longer have to be monolithic, expensive general-purpose devices
• Features broad frameworks and processes, practical advice to help approach specifics, and techniques for the unique design challenges
• Presents case studies that describe, in detail, how others have solved problems, managed trade-offs, and met successes