Anti-Social App Design
AI DWIM near future usability · 1 comment · 600 words · read ~686 times.
My good friend Dan Appelquist recent wrote a fascinating blog post on solipsism as a design decision. He has a set of Lifx Internet Controlled Lightbulbs. They're great fun, but have some seriously screwy ideas about how people live. One key design of the app is to allow you to automatically switch off all your lights when you exit your house. That's pretty nifty, right? I am still chuckling at the mental image of all the lightbulbs in my house shutting down when I leave the house leaving …
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