Pathway #10: Smart hardware additions
CategoryIn praise of imperfect phones
My old Moto Z2 Play has seen better days. The glass has a little spiderweb of fine cracks around the earpiece. The screen is scuffed. There’s a deep chunk gouged from the top of the aluminium frame.
And I love it. I love the way it wears all it…
Design Talk 38. Tim Burrell-Saward; designing hybrid physical / digital experiences
Tim Burrell-Saward is working at the frontier of experience design, where the digital and physical dimensions combine in surprising, delightful ways. In this conversation with MEX founder Marek Pawlowski, Tim talks about his journey from lighting …
User story: the BBQ and the errant butler
Part of MEX User Stories, an ongoing series of tales about digital user experience in the real world.
Alexa, it seems, can be an opportunistic dinner guest. At a recent summer barbeque, she was sitting quietly on a deck laid for outdoor dining, a…
UX risks in Google’s new multi-touchpoint visual responses
Google Home, the speaker embedded with the company’s voice assistant, will soon be able to display results on nearby TVs and phones. It provides a significant new mainstream example of how multi-touchpoint experience design enables digital interac…
Smartphones moved by machines
Now that Sharp is controlled by Foxconn – the company which quietly makes many of the world’s smartphones – it has taken a logical next step: combining Foxconn’s economies of scale with Sharp’s brand recognition to re-enter the high-end smartphone…
Experience design projected free of the frame
Display size governs the physical form factor of mobile devices and, by extension, determines the user experience. If the display could be freed from the confines of the physical frame – typically a rectangular canvas like a smartphone or tablet -…
Google’s wandering, inevitable path to ambient augmentation
Would you like to explore a tangent? It concerns chickens, antiques and the future of ambient augmentation.
About twice a week I like to buy eggs from a local farm. It is a walk of a few miles, along a country road at first and then across fields…
Video: Floris van Eck’s #mexsession on designing future imaging experiences
Floris van Eck gives an expansive look at the future of imaging experiences, drawing on his work for the likes of Canon and its Silicon Valley-based accelerator project, as well as his personal interests in the maker movement, cyborgs and the sing…