Pattern Language

• Relevant points made in article: Digital Simplicity
• This article tells us due to the complex technology, people are not using or fully utilizing digtial devices.
• Solution: Digital Simplicty
• Trying to create a common underlying interaction language among the various devices so that once you learned it for one device, you could use them all. Eg. pattern language for hp, PDA, mp3player, camera similar or same
• Bcos of pattern language, can use applications without or minimal learning. --> more to intuition
• Pattern language should help users to embrace new devices faster, instead of hinder their embracement of pdt, or take an extremly long time to learn. eg, ppl take extremly long time to use computer when it was first out.
• If you want ur digital pdt to take off well, should use digital simplicity eg. use friendly Interfaces should be built to make our digital devices easier to use and our lives simplier

2)Ubiquitous Computing

• When designing user interfaces, have to understand user's needs and devices' capabilities
• Acknowledges a problem that identical data stored on computers and different devices are weakly connected. Users needs: Hope can be connected. Eg. central database
• I dont know how relevant is that. But may be useful ?
• Rest of the article talks about the context and forces driving this need. The solution. The consequences

# posted by ~Z~ @ 6:39 AM