THE MINDSET OF ‘GET THE PRODUCT OUT THE DOOR’ SETS THE STAGE FOR POOR USER EXPERIENCE. For market researchers, there are many data-driven ways to gauge consumer preferences today, and tech c...
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN ENGINEERS BELIEVES THAT NO MATTER WHAT, THE CUSTOMERS WILL BUY? RANT ON. Look at the forum discussions of problems after Apple’s release in November , or consider Google�...
https://www.ageinplacetech.com/blog/big-tech-ready-fire-aim-design-approaches-are-user-hostile
YOU KNOW HOMEOWNERS PLAN TO ‘AGE IN PLACE’ – REPEATED ACROSS ALL SURVEYS. It makes sense to them – they like their homes, locations, their familiar neighborhoods, shops, their friends, ...
https://www.ageinplacetech.com/blog/its-time-solutions-versus-products-aging-place
THE DECLINE OF DESIGN. As interviews proceed for the upcoming report, The Future of the Tech User Experience, all agree. The deteriorating user experience, aka UX, is the result of fragmenta...
HAS THE TECH USER EXPERIENCE SUBSTANTIALLY IMPROVED? For years device and software tech ‘improved’ to a point of widespread optimism about our tech future. Certainly access has improved...
https://www.ageinplacetech.com/blog/tech-user-experience-today-customer-may-not-matter
TECH USER EXPERIENCES ARE DETERIORATING AT A RAPID RATE – FOR ALL. If you have encountered any of the following, you know. The absurdity of two-factor authentication within a single device...
https://www.ageinplacetech.com/blog/could-conversational-ai-help-tech-user-experience
IN THE TECH INNOVATION WORLD, A DECADE IS BOTH A LONG AND SHORT TIME. In 2014, AARP’s Health Innovation @50+ sponsored a report, Challenging Innovators: Matching Offerings to the Needs of Old...
https://www.ageinplacetech.com/blog/challenging-innovators-design-older-adults-2014-2024
THE FRUSTRATION OF THE USER EXPERIENCE. February was short but busy – but a topic emerged on the last day of January that is beginning to take shape in the form of interviews and insights from ...
https://www.ageinplacetech.com/blog/did-you-miss-one-aging-and-health-posts-almost-february-2024
CONSIDER GOOGLE AND ITS TIGHTLY COUPLED PRODUCTS. You launch the search engine on your phone and are surprised to see all of these ‘news’ items about local topics that have appeared in your...
https://www.ageinplacetech.com/blog/user-experience-google-you-are-product-better-or-worse
USER EXPERIENCE NON-DESIGN – IT’S NOT JUST TECH DEVICES – CONSIDER THE STOVE’S COCKPIT.’ Studying the screen plus button choices on a new Microwave, one wonders who tested this interf...
https://www.ageinplacetech.com/blog/user-experience-confounds-cooks-drivers-and-tv-owners
PUBLICLY AVAILABLE UP-TO-DATE STATS ABOUT THE OLDER ADULT POPULATION IS WEAK OR NON-EXISTENT. The most recent version of ChatGPT admits it cannot state the current population in the US that is ...
https://www.ageinplacetech.com/blog/who-knows-current-population-and-age-distribution-older-adults
THE MORE THINGS CHANGE. January 2024 brought announcements, updates and a plethora of new tech, some a dream in the eye of a startup, some in the market and some likely to improve lives, if not...
https://www.ageinplacetech.com/blog/did-you-miss-one-six-tech-and-aging-blog-posts-january-2024
IS THE USER EXPERIENCE DETERIORATING? Tech user experience experts focus on everyone except older adults. But there’s a problem: from AARP’s tech trends survey from 2024 and their 2023 g...
https://www.ageinplacetech.com/blog/tech-user-experience-older-adults-needs-reboot
The 2024 Technology and Aging Market Overview is online. It provides new information and insights about trends that drive technology change for the older adult marketplace. They represent the c...
https://www.ageinplacetech.com/blog/five-trends-matter-older-adults-and-caregivers-2024-and-beyond
REFRESH REQUIRED. Each year, the Technology for Aging Market Overview is revised in January of the new year. This year, that revision is being published right after CES 2024, which featured ...
https://www.ageinplacetech.com/blog/2024-update-market-overview-technology-aging-now-available