Join Jared Ficklin - Chief Creative Technologist of argodesign for his Smart Dumb Things Presentation form MIXX Canada 2015. Function led to the art of Industrial Design. Emotion led to the practice of User Experience. We are now in an era of Quantification & Automation. Machines & services are now built to serve us and build data representing the ME. What does that lead to in the worlds of Product & Experience Design? Let’s explore the impacts of Ubiquitous Computing, the High Availability of Low Cost Technology & Emergence of Machine Thinking on our Lifestyles & our Digital Lifestyles. Let’s share a little bit of energetic futurism. What happens when Form Follows Me? For more from Jared head to: http://argodesign.com

1. SMART dumb THINGS
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2. Things I do in my spare time
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3. PLAY WITH FIRE
MY GEEKY CONCERT LIGHTER

4. PLAY WITH INTERACTIONS

5. PLAY WITH BOTH

6. WITH CROWDS

7. WITH NO PEOPLE

8. WITH BIG THINGS

9. WITH TINY THINGS

10. WITH IMAGINARY THINGS

11. WITH ACTUAL THINGS

13. The Digital Lifestyle…
How we think about the computing experience

14. Intelligence as a Product…
How things are thinking about us
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15. The Other Singularity…
How things are created
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16. The Singularity
When machine intelligence becomes greater than human intelligence.

17. Visions of humans
after the singularity
are lofty:
Economies that involve no money.
Super human capability.
Eternal Life.

22. Then there is The Other Singularity…
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24. Skymall Catalog

29. TECHNOLOGY CREATING NEW EXPERIENCES.

30. TECHNOLOGY CREATING NEW EXPERIENCES.

31. CHANGING FAMILIAR EXPERIENCES

32. CHANGING FAMILIAR EXPERIENCES

33. SKEUREALISM

34. REPLACING EXPERIENCES

35. TECHNOLOGY IN UNEXPECTED PLACES

37. GEN.1 FOUR YEARS AGO
Projector $1,800 Phidgets $420 Wiring $100 Laptop $3,000 DVI & Synchro $300 Projector Stand $600
$6620 / 8 = $777.50
GEN.3 1 YEAR AGO
EL Sequencer $34 Battery $24 Wiring $20 EZ 0 $49.99 EL Wire $36 LED $1 Perfboard $2 EL Inverter $10 Picture frame $4 straps $9
$189

38. The new class: Maker

39. Cory Doctorow: read Down & Out in the Magic Kingdom
The rise of the adhocracies

41. =
YOUR OWN NEST

42. GPS SHOES

43. A CAR FOR A PET FISH

44. A REAL CAR

46. The makers create a new class of products

48. THINK BY MAKING, DELIVER BY DEMO

49. The Digital Lifestyle…
Our computing experience is changing

50. THE PROGRESSION OF FORM & EXPERIENCES
PRODUCTIVITY NETWORKING COMMUNICATION
PERSONAL PORTABLE TOUCHABLE

51. PERSONAL COMPUTING PATTERN
HEADS DOWN & FOCUSED
EXPERIENCES + INTERACTION + FORM = PATTERN

53. We use them to live two lives

55. We stare into them and
immerse ourselves completely

58. People are choosing digital immersion
over the physical world or even safety.

60. QUANTIFIED LIFE

61. SELF SURVELIENCE

62. Intelligence as a Product…
How things are thinking about us is changing
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63. cognitive systems

64. cognitive
systems
learn
solve
evolve

65. plan under
uncertainty
learn over
time
adapt to
context
make
assumptions

66. Watson

67. Google Now

68. Decision Support
what to do today/tonight
where to shop
which product to buy
what is the best price
how to get there
what to listen to
what to watch
whom to meet/date
where to live
where to eat
how to treat a symptom
what to wear
what goes well with…
what to say
what job to take
which is better…

69. every decision that can be
supported by computing will be

70. selective hearing
Lalala

71. These things are changing the computing experience…
RISE OF INTELLIGENCE OTHER SINGULARITY PRODUCTS THE DIGITAL LIFESTYLE

72. THE INTERFACE
IS MOVING OUT INTO THE OPEN

73. Moving out of the app

74. wrap.co
Narrative without an install

76. a tap on the shoulder
extensions to your muscles
Kineseowear

77. What used to be apps will be out in the world
Snapchat IRL

79. the interface will be in the open

80. the room is the new computer

81. From the article “the slow traffic movement” on fastcodesign.com

82. HEADS UP & PRESENT

83. COOPERATIVE

84. MARK UP THE PHYSICAL WORLD

85. THE ROOM WILL SEE YOU,
HEAR YOU, TALK TO YOU

86. Interact with it like a housemate

88. Computers will gain social intelligence

90. Computers will use social intelligence

92. We can add algorithmic intelligence

94. It will begin to look like magic.

96. smart dumb things

97. We will be the magicians,
the machines will learn our tricks

99. How soon?

101. So if you thought authenticity
mattered before…

102. QUANTIFIED LIFE BECOMES
QUANTIFIED COACHING

103. Decision
Support

104. Cognitive
Dependence

105. Fear Of Missing Out
Becomes
Fear of Making Decisions

106. So if you thought responsibility
mattered before…

107. dumb smart personal assistant cognitive a.i.
sentient
machines

109. 4.75
4.75
4.75
Alexa, what should I have for lunch?

110. the uncanny
valley

112. the uncanny
valley

113. Sometimes technology should
answer as technology

114. RISE OF INTELLIGENCE OTHER SINGULARITY PRODUCTS THE DIGITAL LIFESTYLE
For a long time we have been creating big systems.
Now is a great time to find in those systems gaps.
Great value will come from closing small gaps.

116. Thank You!
@jaredrawk
@argodesigned
argodesign.com