Machine to Machine Interfaces

Fascinating piece.  ultimately it is all about machines cooperating seamlessly.    We take it for granted they will be designed to do that, but its not entirely so ... failure is part of the process and has to be designed for.

Machine to Machine interface  Talk  in InfoQ

Summary
Ari Lerner explores the ever-expanding world of machine-to-machine interfaces and presents a real-world use-case for all the buzzwords, including the blockchain, micropayments, and api-driven single-purpose services.

Talk and transcript  .... 

Bio:   Ari Lerner is a Sr. Consultant, AppDev at Amazon Web Services (AWS).

" .... Here are the takeaways from today's talk. Not all user interaction has to have a user interacting. I actually think that the majority of user interaction should not have a user pressing buttons and putting credit card information. Failure is a part of the process, embrace it, design for it. You'll be thankful a month from now when you don't remember what your code looks like or you looked at your code and you're like, "Did I write that?" Failure is part of the process. Design for it. If you don't, if you're afraid of failing, you can't have any successful experimentation, because experimenting literally means it fails or it doesn't, not it succeeds or it doesn't.

Also, hardware isn't scary. It just requires a bit of planning and a little bit more forward-thinking, and if you are doing something using hardware, don't give up. I know that it can be difficult and especially jumping out of software and into the hardware land, that can be scary. But if you're doing it, you're probably making a difference. Physical interaction between you and your users is only going to make things better. If you get this right, point set match.

Finally, UX is not just about users; it's about the interaction of the users. UX is about the users, it's not about the product. You're not integrating UX into your product; you're integrating your user experience in your product, which means UX is not UI.

Finally, I have a prediction. The next big thing that happens, you won't see it because it will be behind the scenes and it's already happening, like AI.