Presentation: TweetInterface Authorship: The times they are a changing

Our relationship with technology is changing. For decades, consumers have been expected to accept their technology related interactions as a product of the design teams of their favourite product companies. As the tools behind technology development have become more accessible, local communities have grown around the creative applications of these technologies. With the power of the internet, those communities have grown without the restrictions of geography. If we follow this natural trajectory, it won't be long before more and more people become the authors of their own interfaces. These tools, and their related growing communities, are lowering the barriers to entry for almost any industry to try their hand at creating new software and hardware interfaces. The shift is now moving towards the everyday consumer. During this talk, we will look at some of the history, and how enterprises have started to engage with these new developments. We will also catch a glimpse of some very interesting consumer level interface creations - made by people for people - and how this is challenging the industry.