It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.
-- Steve Jobs, 1998
Read the fascinating history of Wearable Computing, told by its father, Steve Mann
Read Steve's chapter !
Yang, Yeonsoo and Klemmer, Scott R. (2009): Aesthetics matter: leveraging design heuristics to synthesize visually satisfying handheld interfaces. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2009 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2009. pp. 4183-4188.
Hartmann, Björn, Yu, Loren, Allison, Abel, Yang, Yeonsoo and Klemmer, Scott R. (2008): Design as exploration: creating interface alternatives through parallel authoring and runtime tuning. In: Cousins, Steve B. and Beaudouin-Lafon, Michel (eds.) Proceedings of the 21st Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology October 19-22, 2008, Monterey, CA, USA. pp. 91-100.
It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.
-- Steve Jobs, 1998
Read the fascinating history of Wearable Computing, told by its father, Steve Mann
Read Steve's chapter !