Alex Guest

Alex Guest is a MEX collaborator and co-host of the MEX Design Talk podcast. He has been involved in the London tech scene for many years, and is the founder of Zingy Life, a digital health startup.

Adventure (slightly) augmented by design

Part of MEX Inspirations, an ongoing series exploring tangents and their relationship to better experience design. How are your New Year's…

9 years ago

Minimum viable phone for an adventure?

Part of MEX Inspirations, an ongoing series exploring tangents and their relationship to better experience design. I recently went along to…

10 years ago

Good UX flows from thorough user research

I've begun reading Roger Deakin's Wildwood. Early on, he describes a series of school trips to Beaulieu in the New…

10 years ago

Iteration improves experience of sleep app

In a previous MEX podcast, I mentioned the sleep app Pzizz. It uses 'psychoacoustics' to put you to sleep: in…

10 years ago

Examples of path dependence and where it might lead for smartphones

50 Things That Made The Modern Economy is a BBC World Service podcast.  In short snippets of 9 minutes, Tim…

10 years ago

Defining user experience in the cold light of day

I went into the kitchen to grab something from the fridge. It was late evening and I made my way…

10 years ago

Getting straight to the Punkt

As I slipped the SIM card into the Punkt MP 01, I was fully aware that my other assorted devices…

10 years ago

How can UX improvements encourage users to pivot from consuming to creating?

By Alex Guest and Marek Pawlowski This essay is the first in a series on the intersection between digital consumption…

11 years ago