Home security-system SNAFU: a UX Puzzle for the Brainy

There are unexpected interactions between elements of your home security system, with bad consequences. Would you catch them?

https://9294a3.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/UXP-4-challenge.pdf.

There are important lessons here for designing IoT systems and their interfaces.

Good designing!


About UX Puzzles for the Brainy

These puzzles show how, by taking the user’s point of view, we can generate ideas and select the best ones, innovate, avoid pitfalls, and generally make better thought-out user experiences. You can see the full list here https://theinformationartichoke.com/the-list-of-puzzles/

They are a fun way of presenting serious ideas about designing information rich solutions. For a more serious and systematic way, see “Experiencing + Architecting Information” at www.theinformationartichoke.com.