Developed at Politecnico di Milano by Ilaria Vitali and Venanzio Arquilla, with the participation of Valentina Rognoli for the Material Experience Cards definition.
The kit offers a framework of relevant topics and specific questions. It highlights the key aspects and features that smart devices should possess and that should be kept in mind while designing for the Internet of Things.
The elements of the kit may be used during different phases of the design process, supporting activities such as research, user studies, benchmarking, brainstorming, interaction design, UX definition, CMF, project development, and evaluation.
The MappingTheIoT Toolkit is a project born at Politecnico di Milano, School of Design.
It started as a Master Degree Thesis Research in Product Design for Innovation and then evolved in an handy downloadable tool.
Its aim is to support designers and multidisciplinary teams in overcoming the complexity of IoT products. The Toolkit may also be used with educational purposes, for facilitating design workshop and activities.
We believe that before starting to sketch and brainstorm, designers should follow a meta-design approach, researching Users, Markets and Technologies and using their main findings to focus on the right project brief. In particular, case studies research and analysis are a decisive starting point for any complex project.
This tool is distributed with Creative Commons license Attribution – Non Commercial – Share Alike. The Toolkit can be used for Commercial purposes, but your own modified versions can’t be sold commercially.
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