Great points about design-oriented thinking. They all tend to gravitate toward the point about becoming comfortable with not knowing what the solution will up until the last moment...
Driving back from town today, I came across a trainee taxi driver, on his scooter with a clipboard attached to the windshield. He was clearly ‘doing the knowledge’, which entails driving around streets of London to learn where they are and how they relate to each other.
a complex but interesting proposition: connecting the idea of pre-experience design (iPhone TV ads) with ubicomp / urban computing design / communications
Questioning the assumed contexts, cultures and needs of users in ubiquitous computing contexts. Are they even users if they are unaware of how their presence is part of an interaction?
The answer could be that the mobile is simply a a friend telling you things (like the blackberry email push) rather than a data repository that you query from your desktop
let it behave more like real-world objects. You can normally pick up objects where you left them off. They don’t move when you are not watching, something digital objects often do. Since mobile screens are a part of our immediate surroundings, we should try to take advantage of this ability. It might sometimes make user interfaces a bit less confusing.”
A proposed axis for the development of LBS from a technical point of view.
My favorite point is that reactive LBS will turn into Proactive LBS - requiring less interaction and attention from the user AKA it's an interfaceless or glancable interface