The recent digital and mobile revolutions are a minor blip compared to the next wave of technological change, as everything from robot swarms to skin-top embeddable computers and bio printable organs start appearing in coming years. In this collection of inspiring essays, designers, engineers, and researchers discuss their approaches to experience design for groundbreaking technologies.

Design not only provides the framework for how technology works and how it’s used, but also places it in a broader context that includes the total ecosystem with which it interacts and the possibility of unintended consequences. If you’re a UX designer or engineer open to complexity and dissonant ideas, this book is a revelation.

Contributors include:

Stephen Anderson, PoetPainter, LLC

Lisa Caldwell, Brazen UX

Martin Charlier, Independent Design Consultant

Jeff Faneuff, Carbonite

Andy Goodman, Fjord US

Camille Goudeseune, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Bill Hartman, Essential Design

Steven Keating, MIT Media Lab, Mediated Matter Group

Brook Kennedy, Virginia Tech

Dirk Knemeyer, Involution Studios

Barry Kudrowitz, University of Minnesota

Gershom Kutliroff, Omek Studio at Intel

Michal Levin, Google

Matt Nish-Lapidus, Normative

Erin Rae Hoffer, Autodesk

Marco Righetto, SumAll

Juhan Sonin, Involution Studios

Scott Stropkay, Essential Design

Scott Sullivan, Adaptive Path

Hunter Whitney, Hunter Whitney and Associates, Inc.

Yaron Yanai, Omek Studio at Intel

Jonathan Follett is a founding partner and Creative Director at Hot Knife Design and Principal at Involution Studios, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Jon FollettAt Hot Knife, Jon designs Web sites and applications for a variety of private- and public-sector clients, approaching each project with a strong focus on the use of language and clear communication of the client’s message. He has a passion for typography, its history, and its proper use in design. While Jon’s first design job was for Saul Bellow’s literary magazine, “News from the Republic of Letters,” he has also worked for various Web and multimedia firms in Boston. He was, most recently, lead designer for the Massachusetts Pension Plans Regulatory Agency. Jon co-authored two humorous non-fiction books, “Gray Highway: An American UFO Journey” and “Suburbageddon.” In another life, he plays jazz piano. Jon is a member of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), the Interaction Design Association (IxDA), and the Usability Professionals Association (UPA), Boston Chapter.