As companies like Apple continue to to design systems rather than standalone products, the concept of convergence is front and center and presents fascinating challenges to UX designers who have the opportunity to work on such a project.
The challenge is always about figuring out how to have be clever about layering complementary features rather than cramming as many features as possible into each individual device/service/etc.
The folks at Idlemode have a great list of considerations to think about when designing for a convergent system.
Here’s a sneak peek at the list:
- Our devices are an ecosystem.
- Design for reasonable consistency.
- For users, content drives convergence.
- Intelligent discovery encourages adoption.
- Don’t burden users with content formats.
- Context, not just content, is king.
- Redundancy is useful.
Head on over to IdleMode to get all the details on each of them.