Wednesday, August 10, 2016

How can Internet of Things affects the Job of Web Designer

The ability of control is what the designers want in the print medium and also in web medium, it is simply a function of the disadvantage of the printed page. It’s time that we accept the fact that web doesn’t have the same restraints and design for the flexibility. But above all, the decline and flow of the things should be accepted.


The concerns of web designer and of the developers today are same as it were 15 years earlier, aiming for what design and built up should be on screen and how it appears and most importantly how the users interact with it.

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The surface of the design and build is crucial. But the more it is used; we will discover it as a small area for experiencing with the web and what it enables. The device below the screen is possessed with capabilities the developers have access to.

Like the gyroscopes, geo locations and accelerometers are used to have a sense of where a user is in space and what they are doing in physical form like standing, running, travelling or sitting. Are they stressed or relaxed?

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Our mobile devices and tabs have sensors in the cameras and microphones which tracks temperature and quality and air pressure. Specialized gadgets like fire alarms are capable of detecting carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and other gases as well in the atmosphere.

There exists a network of services from which the information can be sent to, received from and can be interacted with in real time from anywhere and at anytime.

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How the future will be?

The web future with Internet of Things will not be only screens controlled by humans for entertainment and information but a wide assortment of devices constantly sensing all the things in the world like at what speed the car is travelling right now, how many calories have I consumed today or what is the current temperature of my house, etc.

What lies the biggest challenge in front of developers and designers is that how the web augments the life of humans both actively and passively and much less about pixels and buttons and screens. It is about knowing ourselves, our homes and our environment better.

If this sounds a bit confusing, it is. Bit necessarily and a bit on purpose. The future can’t be predicted for how interesting it can be except by inventing it.

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What can be learnt?

What the young designers should be reading in order to learn longevity on web is JavaScript. It is the browser language and with Node.js, the server language, it can be located easily & directly on devices. The bewildering assortment of low cost network-enabled devices and sensors such as Twine and NinjaBlocks, and several others can be explored.

Node.js can be further probed into finding the link to connect these devices which are of wide assortment to one another and also to the services which can collect and make sense of the wide data generated by them, enlighten the users regarding the habits, practices, health and lives.

This all seems a bit gloomy- new device, languages and services except knowledge and skills but with web, these all will be present and loosely connected.

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 Not to get disheartened!

The screen is and will remain the most important part of the web or any other system which human use for interaction but designing and developing only for screen based system has become a legacy activity and it goes similarly for desktop browsers.

But, whatever you may do, a broad range of knowledge and skills can be acquired. Be ready for something exciting and amazing for the future.

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