Working at Apple is not always easy. Especially when it comes to taking everything we have created for months, throw it away and start with a blank page. This is what happened to the teams of research and development of the Apple Watch. By the admission of its creators, it took not one, not two but three prototypes to finally find the right concept, the right chemistry and birth of the first shows connected Apple signed. In the meantime, the model has changed from a Velcro closure strap with a magnetic Milanese mesh.
Why a watch, anyway? Because if a technology object must be worn at all times on the body, the wrist is the most natural choice. And connected watch is the most logical response to a glaring problem: given the increasing size of phones and the number of daily interactions, we had a more discreet solution, less cumbersome and less intrusive especially
To achieve this, Kevin Lynch (Vice-President of Technology and “papa” of the Watch Apple), Alan Dye (creative director in charge of the interaction between man and watch) and their teams worked hard to find a workaround impossible obstacles. A long project that took several years.
It is rumored that Apple Watch is in the works at Apple since 2011, shortly after the death of Steve Jobs. So this is the first major innovation of the Tim Cook era. This means that the pressure is maximum for the Cupertino company. And a challenge: find the right way to interact with this watch
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5 seconds of challenge for each interaction
More than the features themselves, this is the way to apprehend them is upset in the case of the Apple Watch. Whenever we consult their smartphone, you can spend several minutes without noticing. Interact with a watch on his wrist, that changes everything. “Try to lift your arm to look at your watch and hold 30 seconds like that,” we do we launch at Apple. Indeed, it is not natural. By dint of many tests, Cupertino teams have come to a conclusion: every interaction with Apple Watch lasted five seconds. Maximum of ten.
1 second. I raise my wrist, the watch’s screen lights up. Second second. I touch the screen and I scrolls down to check my level of activity since the beginning of the day. 3rd second. I touch the screen again to the left this time to take a look at the weather. 4th second. New gesture and look at my appointments for the day. 5th second. I belittle my wrist, the screen turns off.
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For the interface teams user, these steps – seemingly simple – was a giant headache. How to place an interaction that lasts about thirty seconds and requires several clicks to a simplified display that requires six times less time without the ability to go through a keyboard
The answer was – after many attempts and failures – the use of voice commands and the occurrence of side buttons. The first serves both back button and dial to tune a selection, zoom in / out or scroll. The second is rapid access to get in touch with his friends (call them, send them a message dictated to Siri, a small drawing or the beating of his heart).
Months and months of research into the smallest details
In addition, Apple uses the sensitivity of our skin to send us information. The watch can vibrate but is capable of much more through the feature “Taptic Engine”. It is able to send messages to touch our body: small pats when you receive a message, others – a different force – when someone calls or time of an appointment approach.
This small physical pulses are supplemented by varying noise. The teams at Apple have tried almost everything: the nature sounds, metallic sounds (from the materials used to make the watch), elements from Star Wars, etc. All – or almost – is spent. . Before making choices … and finally opt for classic sounds pretty
In the meantime, the watch was tested scale – and around the world – by a few people in the know gods and a few dozen others who did not know they were working on the development of the fitness function (activity) in the connected watch. Everything (almost) is now played. In two days, April 10 at 9 am 01, Apple will launch pre-orders of its connected watch. Fifteen days later, on April 24, fans of the first hour will slide Apple Watch their wrist. Kevin Lynch and his teams will then blow
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