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Bill Buxton argues that the market is about to become overwhelmed by the cumulative complexity of an ever expanding wave of individually delightful, simple, useful, affordable, desirable technologies. If we fail to rethink how we design software and how we think about applications, he suggests, our entire industry will stall. Filmed at qconsf.com.
Bill Buxton is Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research. He has had a 35 year involvement in research, practice and commentary around design, innovation and human aspects of technology. Bill has been awarded four honorary doctorates, is co-recipient of an Academy Award for Scientific and Technical Achievement, received an ACM/SIGCHI Lifetime Achievement Award, and is a Fellow of the ACM.
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Avoiding the Big Crash
1. Bill Buxton
Principal Researcher, MSR
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bill.buxton@Microsoft.com
www.billbuxton.com
Wile E. Coyote: Looney Tunes (Chuck Close)
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21. Of the collection of
devices
Of the individual device
Threshold of frustration
Complexity
22. 2Rules
1 Every new product and service must provide
great experience and excellent value—it
works, flows & has demand.
2 But each must also reduce the complexity
and increase the value of all of the others.
Things work together.
34. Do you know this guy?
Are you this guy?
Natural?
Fix on device?
Do you like this guy?
Do you like who makes you this guy?
35.
36. What if things just worked?
What if things just worked together?
What if things just worked together seamlessly?
What if in so doing, complexity went down, and value up,
for everything?
Questions of Aspiration
37. What if we created developer’s tools to
facilitate making this happen?
38. Now that we could do anything
What should we do? Photo: Marko Prezelj