Introducing nOS: A People-Centered Operating System

In their book User Friendly, Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant asked a provocative question:  what if, instead of its operating system being organized by apps, the iPhone had been built around social relationships? Inspired by this question, we challenged a team of students in the Master of Human-Computer Interaction and Design at the University of Washington to create a speculative design that would flesh out that possibility. What would a smartphone OS that had social connection as its primary purpose look like? How would it function? How could it help people strengthen their social health? The team dug into the hard questions and the result is nOS: a people-centered operating system. Check it out.