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Desktop Summit: Claire Rowland on service designDesktop Summit: Claire Rowland on service designPosted Aug 18, 2011 12:20 UTC (Thu) by nye (guest, #51576)Parent article: Desktop Summit: Claire Rowland on service design
Anyone know if there's a video of this?
From the beginning of this article I was expecting the usual buzzword-laden wild hyperbolic claims, but then I was pleasantly surprised to find something so sensible and meaningful.
In particular, the 'continuity' and 'connectivity' aspects are problems which are immediately relevant to the things we have now and use every day - and they're both areas in which software is universally bad, but could be substantially improved with a relatively low investment of effort if people cared enough to prioritise them. Especially connectivity seems to be getting even worse - more and more software nowadays expects that it will have a permanent, 100% reliable internet connection and gets unhappy when that isn't the case.
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Desktop Summit: Claire Rowland on service design Posted Aug 18, 2011 21:53 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] Completely agreed. A couple of things that jumped out, though:For example, an app could tag the Twitter tweets that you have seen on a particular device, so that they don't have to be downloaded on a different device.We had this 25 years ago, with messages longer than 140 characters and with so very much less buzzwordiness, and we called it '.newsrc'. Everything old is new again... Things in the real world that have not been connected to the internet, like toilets, pets, or bathroom scales, are headed in that direction.Perhaps I'm just a Luddite throwback, but these seem like perfect examples of the sorts of things one would never ever want to be Internet-connected. (But perhaps I am just a throwback: I don't use the 'cloud' at all.) Continuity is another important element, so that users get the same experience on different devices.This is... not something the free software community is good at, at least not if different pieces of software are involved.
Desktop Summit: Claire Rowland on service design Posted Aug 23, 2011 9:17 UTC (Tue) by jospoortvliet (subscriber, #33164) [Link]
Plasma Active? 95% same code on desktop/netbook/tablet/mobile/settop; write one widget which works on all those; etc... Actually way more ambitious than the most ambitious commercial projects around and actually very successful in *delivering*.
Desktop Summit: Claire Rowland on service design Posted Aug 29, 2011 16:06 UTC (Mon) by dneary (subscriber, #55185) [Link]
>> Things in the real world that have not been connected to the internet,
>> like toilets, pets, or bathroom scales, are headed in that direction.
> Perhaps I'm just a Luddite throwback, but these seem like perfect examples
<a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Withings-WBS01-Bathroom-Scale-Bla...">Wifi connected bathroom scales</a> that allow you to track weight over time are all the rage. I can see an embedded "pet passport" tracking vaccinations and owner tag information being really useful. As to toilets: I have seen water monitoring systems that measure water usage for the household to prevent leaks that can reduce water usage by up to 30%. Doesn't' sound that unreasonable...
Dave.
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