Principles of No UI

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. Embrace Typical Processes Instead of Screens

  2. Leverage Computers Instead of Serving Them

  3. Adapt to Individuals

Help needed for "Principles of No UI"!

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:
http://web.archive.org/web/20211106161315/http://nointerface.com/book/.

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

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