Matt Smith on Atomic Spin

IoT

An Effective Healthcare IoT Project Requires a Different Approach.

Most healthcare IoT projects are productivity tools. They’re measured differently so they need a different set of rules for defining value.

Design Strategy

Going lower-fidelity is worth the fight, I promise. Below are ways I’ve experienced the benefits of fighting for low-fidelity work.

Design Strategy

Any product claiming to conduct valuable research for your software by interviewing a synthetic user or using generative AI is lying.

Product Development

It's important not to use the three-legged stool of innovation metaphor without a deeper understanding of how the process breaks down.

Growing as Makers

Curiosity is important, a concept that was reinforced as I finished a horticulture certification from the MSU Extension Gardening program.

Culture

A shift happening in software is steering teams away from acting with curiosity. Tools like AI and Figma have helped speed up the process.

Artificial Intelligence

Here, I’ll refer to an LLM (Large Language Model) rather than AI. Mainly, that's because I think AI oversells what we’re seeing right now.

Designing for Users

All processes have a core of complexity that can't be designed away. The mental burden must be assumed by either the system or the user.

Designing for Users

Simplicity means it takes less effort to interpret, and complicated means it takes advanced effort to interpret.

Designing for Users

We can’t talk about complexity and simplicity without first defining what we mean when we talk about "information."