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We often talk about designing security into a product from the get go, but we don't often discuss what that means. In today's podcast John Kestner, a principle with Supermechanical, the company behind the Twine sensor and the Range thermometer, shares his thoughts on how he designed Twine and range to be more secure but also how we might design our devices to indicate that what was once a humble lock is now a connected computer with all the pros and cons that entails.

Before Kestner and I dig into security, Kevin Tofel and I talk about my experience playing with the Logitech Harmony Ultimate Remote and home hub and then we dig into CSRMesh and the Bluetooth SIG's creation of a working group to add mesh networking to the Bluetooth Smart standard. That could put Bluetooth in closer competition with thread, Zigbee and Z-wave. So kick back and listen up.

Hosts: Stacey Higginbotham and Kevin Tofel
Guests: John Kestner, principal with Supermechanical

Thoughts on the Logitech Harmony Hub and remote (it's pretty nifty, guys)
The Bluetooth SIG is forming a working group on mesh technologies. Why this is cool!
Should you rely on security by obscurity or hope your device doesn't do much that's scary as a way to be secure?
Thinking about how to convey connectedness in design

How to design security into your connected product

O'Reilly's Mary Treseler talks with Andy Goodman, designer and group director of Fjord’s US studios, about service design, embeddables, and predictive analytics.

Designing On A System Level

O'Reilly's Ben Lorica chats with David Blei, co-author of the seminal paper on topic models, and who remains one of the leading researchers in the field. They talk about the origins of topic models, their applications, improvements to the underlying algorithms, and his new role in training data scientists at Columbia University.

Topic models: Past, present, and future

The Internet of Things is challenging designers to rethink their craft. I recently sat down with Claire Rowland, independent designer and author of the forthcoming book Designing Connected Products to talk about the changing design landscape.

During our interview, Rowland brought up three points that resonated with me: interoperability and the Internet of Things, experience designers and networks, and the IoT’s latency problem.

For more on our interview and for related links, check out the related post on O’Reilly Radar: oreil.ly/1EoyfUV

The complexity of the IoT requires experience design solutions

O'Reilly's Ben Lorica talks with Angie Ma, co-founder and president of ASI, about the concept of the ASI, the structure of their training programs, and the data and startup scene in the UK.

Turning Ph.D.s Into Industrial Data Scientists and Data Engineers

O’Reilly’s Mary Treseler chats with Khoi Vinh, vice president of user experience at Wildcard and co-founder of Kidpost, about career paths; the much talked about new interaction model, cards; and advice for design entrepreneurs.

The Magic Design Sauce: Curiosity and Serendipity

O'Reilly's Mary Treseler chats with Phil Gilbert, GM of design at IBM about how he's helping to lead the transformation to a design-first company within IBM.

IBM is Banking on Design's ROI

O'Reilly's Mary Treseler chats with Scott Jenson, who is currently developing the Physical Web Project with the Chrome team at Google, about empathy, interaction on demand, and Google’s Physical Web Project.

Empathy: The Designer's Superpower

O'Reilly's Mary Treseler talks with information architect Jorge Arango about the state of IA and the importance of designers' understanding of context and perspective.

Information Architecture's Role in UX Design

O'Reilly's Mary Treseler chats with PARC's Mike Kuniavsky about PARC’s work on IoT and the mindset shift the IoT will require.

Designing for Ecosystems: Making Meaningful IoT Products and Services

O'Reilly's Nick Lombardi chats with Laura Klein, designer, researcher, engineer, and author of "UX for Lean Startups" and the popular design blog Users Know.

Design for Success: Manage Business and User Goals

Jon Bruner and Mike Loukides talk about the classical music publishing industry and how it's being disrupted by projects like the Petrucci Music Library (http://imslp.org/) that make public-domain scores available online.

The future of classical music

Jim Stogdill, Edd Dumbill and Roger Magoulas have a conversation about in-memory databases and the impact on real time analysis. Leave questions and comments for us at http://radar.oreilly.com/2013/05/talking-about-in-memory.html

Talking about in-memory

Jon Bruner, Mike Loukides and Jim Stogdill from O'Reilly Radar muse on the return of software to the physical world.

Software and the physical world

Jon Bruner, Jim Stogdill, and Roger Magoulas talk about anthropology in big data, advances in JavaScript, searching for ancient civilizations, the importance of context, and good sites for checking the weather.

Related blog post: http://radar.oreilly.com/2013/06/radar-podcast-anthropology-big-data-and-the-importance-of-context.html

Anthropology, big data, and the importance of context

Jon Bruner, Jim Stogdill, and Roger Magoulas talk about what's been on their minds this week: the NSA's surveillance programs, what defense contractors will do with their technology as defense budgets dry up, and a Californian who isn't doing what you think he's doing with hydroponics.

For more on these topics, and links to the things we talked about, see http://radar.oreilly.com/2013/06/radar-podcast-the-internet-of-things-prism-and-defense-technology-that-goes-civilian.html.

The Internet of Things, PRISM, and defense technology that goes civilian

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Our methodology is simple: we draw from the wisdom of the alpha geeks in our midst, paying attention to what’s interesting to them, amplifying these weak signals, and seeing where they fit into the innovation ecology. Add to that the original research conducted by our Research team, and you start to get a good picture of what the technology world is thinking about.