O'Reilly Media · 2016 · Lead author and editor
Designing for Emerging Technologies
Lead author and editor Jon Follett brought together practitioners from the edges of the field to show how design shapes new technology.
Books · 4 · Essays · 53 · Talks · 4
Writing
We think in public.
Books, essays, and talks on where design is headed and how the work actually gets done. This is our portfolio as much as the case studies are.
Books
O'Reilly Media
The Future of Product Design
O'Reilly Media · Chapter by Jon Follett & Matt Holm
Beautiful Data: The Stories Behind Elegant Data Solutions
Their chapter, “The Beautiful People: Keeping Users in Mind When Designing Data Collection Methods,” uses a real survey campaign to show that well-designed forms gather better data. Live reporting revealed that half the mailing list had never received the survey.
Contributed chapter
UX Careers Handbook
Ideas, early
Themes we keep coming back to
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Interfaces beyond the screen.
In 2008 we argued that software's ability to recognize speech and images would reshape interaction more than the graphical interface had. Voice assistants and multimodal AI made that daily reality.
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Location as interface.
We wrote that the mobile web's real power was contextual, location-aware information, while carriers were still shrinking desktop pages onto phones.
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Data as design material.
We said designers would be on the front line of making data usable. Then we wrote a book chapter about it.
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Emerging technology.
Robotics, genomics, connected devices, and the design questions they raise. Then a whole book.
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Sustainable design.
In 2008 we asked why sustainability wasn't a baseline for digital products.
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Distributed teams.
We ran and wrote about remote teams long before it was the default.
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The craft.
Play, motion, icons, typography, and the language we use to talk about technology.
Essays
Published in UXmatters, Towards Data Science, O'Reilly Media, A List Apart, Digital Web, Vodafone Receiver, Medium and GoInvo. Early essays were translated into Russian, Chinese, Spanish, and Portuguese.
- Making Art with AI (opens in a new tab)Towards Data Science2020
- AI, Architecture, and Generative Design (opens in a new tab)Towards Data Science2020
- AI as Design Material (opens in a new tab)Towards Data Science2020
- AI and Our Complex Future (opens in a new tab)Towards Data Science2020
- Hey Human, Let’s Talk! (opens in a new tab)Towards Data Science2019
- A Story Told by a Machine (opens in a new tab)Towards Data Science2019
- Talking to Machines (opens in a new tab)Towards Data Science2019
- Could Machines Become Creative? (opens in a new tab)Towards Data Science2019
- What Is Lean UX? (opens in a new tab)O'Reilly Media2019
- Integrating Agile and UX Design (opens in a new tab)O'Reilly Media2019
- What Is Design Thinking? (opens in a new tab)O'Reilly Media2019
- Humans, Machines, and the Future of Education (opens in a new tab)Towards Data Science2019
- Playing Poker on Mars: How AI Mastered the Game (opens in a new tab)Towards Data Science2019
- How 22 Years of AI Superiority Changed Chess (opens in a new tab)Towards Data Science2019
- A Path Towards Standardized Health (opens in a new tab)GoInvo2018
- The Whiskey Algorithm (opens in a new tab)Medium2018
- The User Interface Vanishes: How Smartware Will Change the User Experience (opens in a new tab)UXmatters · Smartware column2018
- How Science Will Shape Smartware (opens in a new tab)UXmatters · Smartware column2018
- Connectedness: Virtual and Local (opens in a new tab)UXmatters · Smartware column2017
- Smartware, AI, and Magical Products (opens in a new tab)UXmatters · Smartware column2017
- The Smartware Transformation (opens in a new tab)UXmatters · Smartware column2017
- Smartware: The Evolution of Computing (opens in a new tab)UXmatters · Smartware column2017
- Collaboration and the Designer’s Mindset (opens in a new tab)O'Reilly Media2017
- The Trials and Tribulations of the Early Adopter (opens in a new tab)Medium2017
- The Designer’s Perspective on Prototyping (opens in a new tab)O'Reilly Media2017
- How to Apply Design Thinking in Your Organization (opens in a new tab)O'Reilly Media2017
- Why Emerging Technologies Are the Next Great Frontier for UX (opens in a new tab)UXmatters2016
- The Edge of the IoT (opens in a new tab)O'Reilly Media2016
- Ever Wonder How They Choose Animals for the Covers of O’Reilly Books? (opens in a new tab)Medium2015
- The Ever-Evolving Arrow: Universal Control Symbol (opens in a new tab)UXmatters2009
- A Practical Guide to Capturing Creativity for UX (opens in a new tab)UXmatters2009
- Using Web Software for Collaborative Work on Virtual UX Teams (opens in a new tab)UXmatters2009
- The UX Customer Experience: Communicating Effectively with Stakeholders and Clients (opens in a new tab)UXmatters2009
- The World as the Interface: Location Data and the Mobile WebVodafone Receiver2008
- Toward a More Human Interface Device: Integrating the Virtual and Physical (opens in a new tab)UXmatters2008
- Creating a Digital World: Data As Design Material (opens in a new tab)UXmatters2008
- The State of the UX Community (opens in a new tab)UXmatters2008
- Recycle These Pixels: Sustainability and the User Experience (opens in a new tab)UXmatters2008
- The Long Hallway (opens in a new tab)A List Apart2008
- The Rules of Digital Engagement (opens in a new tab)A List Apart2008
- Show and Tell: Imagining the User Experience Beyond Point, Click, and Type (opens in a new tab)UXmatters2008
- Engaging User Creativity: The Playful Experience (opens in a new tab)UXmatters2007
- Where Are You Now? Design for the Location Revolution (opens in a new tab)UXmatters2007
- An Audience of One: Creating Products for Very Small Workgroups (opens in a new tab)UXmatters2007
- Audio and the User Experience (opens in a new tab)UXmatters2007
- Interfaces That Flow: Transitions as Design Elements (opens in a new tab)UXmatters2007
- Envisioning the Whole Digital Person (opens in a new tab)UXmatters2007
- Seeing the World in Symbols: Icons and the Evolving Language of Digital Wayfinding (opens in a new tab)UXmatters2006
- Interfaces for People, Not Products (opens in a new tab)UXmatters2006
- Vision QuestDigital Web2006
- Display 2.0: A Look Forward to the High-Definition Web and Its Effect on Our Digital Experience (opens in a new tab)UXmatters2006
- Understanding the UnconferenceDigital Web2006
- Why the Tech Industry Needs to Change Its LanguageDigital Web2006
Talks & workshops
Visual Design for Web Sites and Web Applications
Half-day workshop, UPA Boston
Making Agile Work for Design
Jon Follett & Dan Pickett, Refresh Boston
Getting Back on Track: Saving Derailed Projects
Jon Follett & Dan Pickett, Ignite Boston 5. The audience's #1 most-wanted talk.
Using Web Tools to Build Virtual Teams
Jon Follett, New England Web Developers Association