Patrizia Bertini, Alex Guest and Marek Pawlowski pick their most memorable digital – and non-digital – user experiences from 2016.  With examples ranging from virtual reality and conversational interfaces to home baking and biodegradable thank you cards, the MEX team try to unpack what makes for an extraordinary UX.  The conversation turns to the year ahead and the hosts’ hopes for skills and technologies to improve digital design in 2017.  Patrizia leaves listeners with a challenge: to send in your examples of wearable technology beyond the smartwatch…tweet us @mexfeed or email designtalk@mobileuserexperience.com.

On this edition

• Marek Pawlowski, co-host & founder of MEX (@marekpawlowski)
• Alex Guest, co-host & CEO of Zingy.life (@alexguest)
• Patrizia Bertini, co-host & Senior Strategy Consultant, Lithium (@legoviews)

Links

• The Turing Test
• Pana, the travel bot
• Findface, the slightly terrifying app which identifies people from their photos
• Eliza background on Wikipedia
• Eliza, the chat bot
• Chatbots.org, a directory of chat bots
• North Face ‘smart’ jacket buying assistant, powered by IBM Watson
• Tara, the recruiting chat bot
• Clever bot, who thought Patrizia was a penguin
• F. Capra on systems thinking
• Amazon announces record Alexa sales over the 2016 holiday period
• Amazon Echo evidence sought in murder case
• MEX user story on voice interfaces
• MEX principles for natively neighbourly multi-touchpoint experience design, examining how UX evolves as it breaks outside individual devices
• MEX Design Talk episode 17, the VR special when we tried the HTC Vive at Tigerspike
• MEX Design Talk episode 12, interview with Greg Taylor about VR
• MEX Design Talk episode 14, about crafting UX for digital healthcare
• MEX user story about contactless payments
• MEX/16 summary, where we talk about Flying Object’s multi-sensory design workshop (podcast or article)
• MEX Design Talk episode 3, interview with Peter Law of Flying Object about multi-sensory design
• Project Jacquard, Google’s smart fabrics initiative
• Bread: River Cottage Handbook No.3, which Alex has been using in the kitchen
• River Cottage’s basic bread recipe, courtesy of The Telegraph (this is a good one to get started, then evolve to your own tastes – Marek)
• Google hiring Pixar writers
• Mindwave’s virtual reality treatment for children with OCD
• Patrizia’s thank you card from her produce supplier

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Thanks

• Jukedeck, for the artificial intelligence engine which provided the music