Peter Odum has written about design principles for converged devices. Here’s a summary of the principles he outlines:
- Our devices are an ecosystem.
- Design for reasonable consistency.
- For users, content drives convergence.
- Intelligent discovery encourages adoption.
- Don’t burden users with content formats, formatting and packaging of content.
- Context, not just content, is king.
- Redundancy is useful.
Link: Convergent Experiences, Diverse Devices (idlemode.com)
Related:
- Mobile Devices as Pervasive User Interfaces and Interaction Devices (PERMID 2005)
- Designing for Location-Based Services
- Designing for Flash on mobile devices
- Designing medical devices
- Motion sensing in mobile devices
Tags: content, context, convergence, design, ecosystem, principles, redundancy, rules
