nest

I love when technology and design come together to provide the ultimate customer experience.

The nest product design is a good example of what great user experience and human machine interaction is all about. With a minimalistic approach to design, intuitive controls, and a revolutionary re-architecture of the whole thermostat ‘experience’ concept. Creating something that synergistically exploits principles of affordance and structural aesthetics. Combined with reduced user  invasiveness and operational stress . Allowing hardware, software and their intelligent algorithms to do the work, so humans can simplify their lives and experience a greater level of freedom and comfort. Helping other important areas of the full user experience such as maximizing energy use, reducing costs and waste. Providing users with remote access, and full control over their home temperatures.

These are the reasons nest thermostat inspires me. I like their 360 degrees approach to solving user experience needs. Obviously these designers looked outside of the box of engineered architecture, challenged status quo, and known design schema. To envision and produce something different, challenging, something with the potential to change the whole landscape of the thermostat industry. They not only leapfrogged the competition and created a new industry but ended up providing a greener technology approach, helping the environment and humanity in its path. With a tasteful look and feel, and well implemented set of ergonomics principles. Putting it all into a superb user experience.