Consultancy
The start of every project is an important moment, getting the right people, software and hardware weigh heavily on the successful outcome of the project. With over 20 years experience, I've worked with a lot of software and hardware and gathered a large network of people with specific skills.
Simplicity rules
Complex matters can be solved with simple solutions. By taking a step back and looking at the bigger picture. Just like in real world physics, if the solution is too complex, it's likely the chosen solution isn't the best one.
Mobile first
The realm of the web has spread. A website isn't enough anymore. This does not have to mean development costs going through the roof. By changing the approach to web development a lot of things solve it self. Hence a recently often heard sentence "mobile first". Focussing on getting across your message or content on a small device forces you you to think twice on every letter and element.
Prototyping
The moment you know you have a good idea... That feeling fades quickly when faced with the challenges of prototyping, product testing and optimizing it to a usable end product. But the future is looking bright. New techniques make prototyping a lot easier and more affordable.
Think inside the box
3d printing is going to change the world, if it fits in a 3d printer you can make it. By creating tools for easy customization and personalization even your mother can soon make her own ideas come to life.
Open up
When you can combine 3d printed parts with open source hardware, the boundaries of what you can make in your home garage or addic are rapidly fading. But this also brings great opertunities for new commercial product ideas. The time from idea to prototype drops with incredidable rates and costs.
Development
A good foundation
Developing is not what it used to be. Left aside specific jobs, for most developing needs a multitude of frameworks is allready available. Open source software has reached critical mass and vast communities of enthousiasts are helping each other to get ahead with even the most complex of things. So developing is not all about writing code, it's seeing the big picture and choosing your weapons carefully.
1 + 1 = 11
With open source software abundently available and open source hardware getting more and more attention, the developer world is also broadening towards the brick and morter world. This brings synergy to a whole new level. One person being capable of developing a complete machine without deepgoing knowledge of electronics or software.
It's alife
Interactivity between devices has been widely adopted with the coming of the smartphone. In the coming years a lot of electronic devices will be getting or sending data, making triggered action - response automation more intuitive than ever before.
Interfacing
Wave your hands here
Click here will slowly vanish as new techniques for showing and interacting with data will become usable for a greater public. Specific interfaces for specific data. Realtime depth, motion and face tracking make it possible to interact with computers in a much more natural way and provide the means to analyse and alter data much quicker.
Talk to me
We have seen a massive increase of voice searches in the last few years. More and more systems are now equiped with voice control and in the not so far future even coding can be done by giving voice commands. It will take some time bofe it's flawless, but he, humans aren't flawless either.
Are you eyeballing me?
Eyetracking has been used heavily in the past for market research and web and software interface improvements. Mostly to examine where users look. But with new hardware showing up everywhere, eyetracking is now so precise it can be used for a wide range of applications. Together with technologies like augmented reality a whole new dimension of interfacing has been openened.
