Let's fix things 28 - Abandon your ethics, this is design!
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Losing no time, Guus goes right into the new of Nintendo filing VR patents driving a discussing around the Nintendo Switch, responsive hardware, and why [to Joe] the Switch is a great piece of design, but may not sell well. Guus shares a story on a Japanese anime personal assistant. Joe breaks down the idea of a personal companion, separating out the objectification issues the anime personal assistant brings.
The main topic revolves around a stream of consciousness discussion on design in the role of reduction of jobs, reinforcing the separation of social classes, and not enough designers thinking globally. Guus and Joe review Amazon Go and it\'s role in both creating an amazing shopping experience around convenience, while potentially hurting economic growth. There is a subtle conversation on the role of Service Design in revealing all the players in a design situation and how to consider the design from all sides - from user, to business, to employee.
The ending sees the duo connect the conversation back with the last several months of podcasts, creating an accidental year end summary. The end of the show summarizes that design must elevate itself, thinking outside of UI, and take roles in much larger situations to bring service thinking across industries and to better improve the human condition and society as a whole.
- Nintendo Switch on Jimmy Fallon - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TJ7IUNWGl4
- Holographic anime assistant - http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/12/the-anime-girlfriend-experience-gateboxs-ai-powered-holographic-home-robot/
- The Gadget apocalypse - http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/07/technology/personaltech/the-gadget-apocalypse-is-upon-us.html?_r=0
- Uber color symbols - http://www.fastcodesign.com/3066601/uber-is-fixing-a-major-ux-issue-using-your-favorite-color
- Sharing economy on steroids - https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/11/shopping-i-can-t-really-remember-what-that-is/