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5 Principles for the wearable revolution

Look around. There’s no denying it – wearables have arrived. But with their arrival also comes a slew of design challenges. Since the design community is often generous, we’d like to pay it forward by sharing five principles on creating great wearable design. These aren’t rigid rules; just five thoughts to help teach (and maybe entertain) you. Enjoy!

  1. Balance Public and Personal

  2. Keep it Glanceable

  3. Leverage Non-Visual UI

  4. Beware of the Data Avalanche

  5. Mind the Gaps

Help needed for "5 Principles for the wearable revolution"!

The following is missing from this set of principles:

Summary: Each design principle can have a brief summary, these could be a couple of lines or a detailed paragraph outlining how this principle is used or measured, e.g.

- principle: Strive to be universal
summary: Our aim is to be a resource that is helpful to everyone. We do this by strictly adhering to principles of progressive enhancement…

Tip! You may be able to find the missing information at the source URL:
https://wearablesguide.fjordnet.com/.

It would be great if you could contribute and update this set of principles with anything that's missing!

Ben Brignell maintains principles.design as an open source resource.

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