Kicking Down Silos: Co-Designing Software & Hardware to Create Great Products
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This document discusses co-designing software and hardware to create great products. It recommends a user-centered iterative design process involving concept testing, paper prototypes, software simulations, simulated hardware, prototyping hardware, and eventually custom hardware. The goals are to preserve progress between prototypes, make user tests authentic, and take small jumps between generations to save time and costs. This approach allows focusing on other priorities like industrial design, apps, user testing, marketing, and business development.
Kicking Down Silos: Co-Designing Software & Hardware to Create Great Products
- 4. KinomaPL AT FO R M R U N TI M E Studio Create
- 5. Waterfall Verification Maintenance Requirements Product requirements document Design Software architecture Implementation Software
- 7. User-CenteredIterativeDesign DESIGN PROTOTYPE TEST ITERATE Concept Paper/“WizardofOz” LowFidelity HighFidelity (Near)Production DESIGN PROTOTYPE TEST ITERATE DESIGN PROTOTYPE TEST ITERATE DESIGN PROTOTYPE TEST ITERATE DESIGN PROTOTYPE TEST ITERATE
- 9. Co-Design
- 10. Stages 1. Concept testing 2. Paper/“Wizard of Oz” 3. Software Simulation 4. Simulated Hardware 5. Prototyping Hardware 6. Custom hardware
- 11. ProcessGoals • Preserve progress between prototypes – Application code – I/O libraries – Look and feel
- 12. ProcessGoals • Preserve progress between prototypes – Application code – I/O libraries – Look and feel • Make user tests as authentic as possible
- 13. ProcessGoals • Preserve progress between prototypes – Application code – I/O libraries – Look and feel • Make user tests as authentic as possible • Small jumps between prototype generations – Cost – Time
- 15. SoftwareSimulation Software Kinoma Platform Runtime (KPR) Native Interpreted HTML Mobile app framework Android iOS
- 16. HardwareSimulation Software Simulated Hardware Kinoma Platform Runtime (KPR) Native Interpreted HTML Mobile app framework Android iOS Kinoma simulator Simulator for Arduino CPU emulator (e.g. QEMU) Android simulator iOS simulator
- 17. Off-the-ShelfPrototypingHardware Software Simulated Hardware Prototyping Hardware Kinoma Platform Runtime (KPR) Native Interpreted HTML Mobile app framework Android iOS Kinoma simulator Simulator for Arduino CPU emulator (e.g. QEMU) Android simulator iOS simulator Kinoma Create Arduino Galileo PIC Dev Raspberry Pi BeagleBone Android + IOIO × ×
- 19. (Affordable)CustomHardware Software Simulated Hardware Prototyping Hardware Custom Hardware Kinoma Platform Runtime (KPR) Native Interpreted HTML Mobile app framework Android iOS Kinoma simulator Simulator for Arduino CPU emulator (e.g. QEMU) Android simulator iOS simulator Kinoma Create Arduino Galileo PIC Dev Raspberry Pi BeagleBone Android + IOIO Marvell ARM x86 MIPS ARM× × × × ×× × × ×
- 20. • Saving time allows you to focus on • Industrial design • Companion app • User testing • Community building • Crowdfunding campaign management • Investor relations • Building a brand Don’tRe-engineer:ExpandPriorities
- 22. • “Grain Storage Silos” photo from flickr.com/katsrcool, used under CC Attribution 2.0 Generic license • “Inclinometer on Arduino” photo from flickr.com/ 27164521@N00, used under CC Attribution 2.0 Generic license • “BeagleBone” photo from flickr.com/embecosm, used under CC Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic license Credits