Table of Contents
Foreword xi
Preface xiii
Chapter 1 Design Follows Technology 1
Digital Maturity 1
The Human Problem 3
The "Us" Part of Maturity 8
Chapter 2 Activity Trackers 9
Early Step Tracking 9
Connected Fitness Trackers 12
Not All Steps Are Equal 14
More of the Same 16
More Sensors and Machine Learning 18
Telling the Rest of the Health Story 21
Designing Fitness Trackers 25
Pulling It All Together 28
Chapter 3 Smartwatches 29
The First Calculator Watch 29
The Microchip Explosion 31
Early Wrist Computers 34
Ecosystem Integration 35
Cell Phones and The Modern Era 38
Frameworks for Smartwatch Interaction 41
Designing for Smartwatches 42
Designing Smartwatches Themselves 45
Pulling This All Together 46
Chapter 4 The Glass Experiment 47
A Truly Wearable Computer 47
The Development of Google Glass 50
One Day 53
Pulling This All Together 59
Chapter 5 Wearable Cameras 61
Narrative: Design for the Photographed 62
GoPros for Everyone! 63
Handling the Data 68
Computer-Mediated Reality 70
Pulling It All Together 78
Chapter 6 Cognitive Wearables 79
Fitness Trackers for Your Mind 79
Stress and Focus 81
Altering Consciousness 86
Learning to Learn 88
Pulling It All Together 91
Chapter 7 Service Design 93
Service Design 93
The Double Diamond 96
Communication Tools 99
Service Design and Machine Learning 102
What Machine Learning Looks Like 104
Pulling It All Together 107
Chapter 8 Embodiment and Perception 109
How We Think 109
What Is Embodiment? 112
Cognition and Tools 114
Embodied Wearable Devices 115
Perception 118
Breaking Down Perception 120
Sensory Substitution, Addition, and Augmentation 122
Gaining Physical Awareness 125
Pulling It All Together 130
Chapter 9 Prototyping 131
Why Prototype? 131
Foundational Tools 132
More Prototyping Tools 148
Pulling It All Together 151
Chapter 10 Selling the Invisible 153
Hammers and Memories 153
Retail 156
Pulling It All Together 159
Chapter 11 Moving Forward 161
We Can 161
Still in the Wild West 162
Go Forth! 164
Index 165
