2014 Hardware Design 10 trends

With the development of mobile internet in full swing, a large number of high-quality mobile end of the app, to provide users with a lot of valuable services. And the traditional hardware industry by this impact, began to consider the combination of soft and hard transformation, hardware began to become more and more soft, more and more intelligent, internet giants and traditional companies are looking for new smart hardware in the field of opportunity. A large number of intelligent hardware also from last year began to flood our view, although the good and bad, but no lack of excellent master of the work. These designs combine hardware and software experiences from a problem-solving perspective, avoiding the shackles of screen pixels, and more possibilities arise.

Baidu MUX students from the hardware products of the "Interactive Design" and "Product design" two dimensions of some trends in the analysis and excavation, from the two design dimensions to predict the next year in the hardware field of the five major trends, I believe that these designs will form a trend to bring users a better experience.

　　One, hardware gesture interaction

With more and more intelligent hardware appearing, the machine can read more human language, and gesture interaction arises. Unlike the traditional screen, the equipment has a richer sensor and camera, multi-directional sense of operation instructions, the device turned off, left to right, voice size control, can be defined by the specific gestures to achieve, there is no need to operate in a certain interface, really realize the natural interaction between people and machines.

Google Glass

Nest

Glass's percussion is as dreamy as Morse code, and Nest beckons to cancel the alarm, these are the primary gestures of the interaction, if gestures can express complex language, then you want to let the device how to operate by us to design the definition.

　　Second, camera interaction

At present, the camera has become the standard of all kinds of electronic products. In addition to photographing, the camera can also achieve many other functions, such as by capturing the user's trajectory to replace the touch screen operation, enrich the interactive form, greatly enhance the convenience of users and fun.

Flutter

Flutter, the palm to the camera a press, control MAC/PC Music Stop, and then continue to play, can be used for emergencies, need to turn off the music scene, more easily control the music progress.

CamMe

CamMe and Baidu Magic Map, respectively, through the front camera to capture the palm of the hand or blink of an eye to achieve the function of the shutter, so that the girls like to take a more free easy pose, is not a self-portrait artifact.

Goccia

In addition to capturing the trajectory, the camera can also obtain light signals and transmit data to the mobile phone. Take Goccia as an example, will goccia turned over the phone in front of the camera, open the App,goccia will send a piece of data with the color of light, from the mobile phone camera capture converted to electrical signal data stored to mobile phone or cloud. The mechanism's energy conversion efficiency is higher than Wifi or Bluetooth, greatly reducing the volume of equipment.

　Three, circular interaction

For a growing number of smart devices, the box screen is no longer the only option, and different devices will choose the screen based on their own scene and device profile. Round screen in the field of wearable and so on, will be more to favor, it and body contact is softer, the shape itself is also easy to be accepted by the public, at the same time derived from the circular design of the new interactive mode is very consistent with our operating habits, very natural.

Nest

Moto360

Smartwatch Concept by Gabor Balogh Shine

Nest does not use a square touch screen to cope with the situation, but the interface and operation of the integration in the round screen, the entire screen can rotate around, and as the rotating screen shows the change in numbers or options, the screen is "OK", the entire interface around the "circle" is exemplary.

　Four, silent interaction

Not all wearable devices have an interactive process that is operational. For infants, pets wear equipment, the interactive process is silent, wearable equipment is responsible for information collection, interactive process in the background can be completed intelligently. All the information collected is transmitted to the mobile app, allowing parents to view the relevant data.

FitBark

Owlet

FitBark and Owlet are pet wear equipment fitbark and neonatal wear equipment owlet for tracking physiological information such as sleep and respiration. The whole process is silent, just do the positioning and monitoring, intelligently in the background to help you complete all the information you are concerned about.

　　Five, intelligent voice interaction

Speech plays an important role in the interaction of wearable devices. The use of the voice of the scene there are infinitely many possibilities, but also let people produce infinite reverie.

Common is voice in mode. For example, Google Glass, the user through OK Glass Voice wake-up glasses, you can use the voice of the glasses to make a variety of instructions to achieve interaction.

And the other more advanced is the voice out Intelligent interactive mode. Let the voice become wearable equipment of the feedback extension, with the user generated interaction and communication, giving voice to human nature color.

Moov

This fall will be listed in the sports equipment Moov, has a personal fitness trainer function, record the user all the amount of exercise, and give the corresponding guidance. Like many information-tracking devices, it also needs to be matched with a mobile phone. But the special point is that Moov has fully played the advantage of the mobile phone Siri, making it part of the wearable device. In the course of motion, Siri gives the corresponding voice feedback, prompting and stimulation according to the actual motion of the user. Just think of Siri as a personal trainer to correct your actions and shout passwords for you.

VI. Care Design

"Gee, Grandpa fell down at home, call 120." "Sensefloor can inform loved ones that an old man falls in danger. Hardware product design more intelligent and closer to life, care for vulnerable groups (old and Young and sick), so that the life of the younger generation easier. From universal design to care design development, that is, to the special population, the high degree of social gradient, and the young people want to care for parents and elders, children's heart, make smart hardware development more tend to equip the elderly children with intelligent hardware, and information to the familiar with the Internet knowledge of young people, forming care and monitoring closed loop. Love and be Loved, more care, make people's lives easier, design is more intimate.

Smart PJ ' s

No time to tell a bedtime story to a child? With Smart PJ's can somehow reduce some of this guilt, even if not around, Smart PJ's can also replace their own children to tell stories, soothing children to sleep early.

Quick Trainer Tweet Pee

Tweetpee urine not wet change notice, when the urine is not wet load capacity has reached the limit will be through the form of tweets notify parents to change the baby urine is not wet. and quick trainer through the sensor to perceive whether the human body to pee, and issued an alert, so that children or people with disabilities can be brought to the urinal in advance, eliminating unnecessary trouble.

The ultimate goal of caring design is to make life easier for young people who are under social pressure, to care for their families in advance to prevent, to monitor the living environment of their loved ones and to make timely responses in the first time, hardware design will gradually affect the way people love their loved ones.

　Seven, smart phone peripherals

Mobile phones have become an integral part of life, and it is becoming more powerful, a trend that can be expanded by the ability to connect with smart peripherals that can be used to improve efficiency for specific tasks in different scenarios. These "accessories" in the form of hardware is strengthening the function of mobile phones, using audio ports and Bluetooth and other data transmission, so that the phone one second to change the wallet universal pen game equipment, sounds exciting.

Square

O-click

such as the use of headphone hole peripherals, and mobile phone camera interaction peripherals, and screen interaction with the smart pen, etc., to solve the screen software control defects. Square's mobile payment equipment, O-click's remote camera, these peripherals for our lives to bring a lot of convenience, but also for mobile phones add a lot of fun to use the scene.

　Eight, medium control visualization

The interaction between people and cars, as the impact of smartphones is also gradually changing, the traditional mechanical control of automobiles is gradually being replaced by the interface of the middle control, not only because these functions can have more intelligent correlation, but also allow the driver to interact with the car through voice, gesture and other operation to bring more convenient and intelligent operation experience. This year, the screen in this car is also a big battleground.

Telsa in control

Telsa a big step forward in this area, and most of the car's functions can be achieved through this screen. Among them, such as the lamp control function also realizes the visualization operation, solves many traditional operation the malpractice, has brought the new experience.

　　Nine, modular design

Electronic products Full Street Now, the face of the market on the main different functions of a variety of products, users often face the choice of confusion, even to meet more demand to buy a bunch of electronic products. The same problems exist in the home of the major manufacturers, in order to change less should be changeable, with as little input as possible to produce as many products as possible, "modular design" more used, with the same interface, the combination of different functional modules, can be configured to generate a variety of products to meet user needs.

Baidu Cloud Intelligent Hand ring--matrix

Baidu Cloud UE Design team will be modular applied to the design of intelligent hand ring, modular processing, separation of components, packaged in different modules, such as chips, batteries, motors, various sensors, and equipped with a standardized interface, manufacturers and users can be based on the free combination of requirements to provide a variety of services, Users who need to raise the battery life of the hand ring can install more than one battery ring section, and the normal living and working only need to record the calorie consumption of the ring, and exercise fitness can be removed from the ring section to monitor the heart rate of the ring. In this way, not only the function of the smart hand ring can be expanded, opponents ring users is also the cost savings.

Nex Band

"No one can see that I'm wearing a sensor"-Nex band is also chasing the trend of modular customization, users can use at the same time the module is up to 5, each module has a colorful LED, through different symbols to indicate different functions, and the corresponding APP (third party cooperation) module for tracking, parsing data, or any other interaction, you don't want to use which module you can remove it and replace it with something else.

X. Integration of soft and hard

FuelBand

The development of hardware products is combined with software to embody its intelligence. Simplify the design of hardware to make it easier to carry, the function of the hardware extended to the software, highlighting its intelligent side. For example, Nike+ 's FuelBand, the user knows the information and the data is very few through the hand ring, but through the matching app may mark the running line, the track progress, stimulates the user to run farther, rewards the user to achieve each achievement, and lets the user share with the friend. The integration of soft and hard is the inevitable trend of the development of intelligent hardware at present and also a necessary stage.

WeMo

Software to simplify the display screen on the hardware, to simplify the design of hardware, lightweight, and simpler security. It also makes it possible for hardware and software to be separated. As a monitoring device is the best practice, such as the smart home company Belkin's Children's monitor, parents through the intelligent monitoring system to understand whether the child is crying, or a good dream wings, this information will be accurate to send to the parents carry the iOS device. The development trend of hard software integration also makes the hardware development have flexible and diverse characteristics.