Design Talk 30. Ruby Steel, Smart Design
Ruby Steel’s path in design has been characterised by her interest in multi-sensory experiences and finding ways to help people overcome impairments. Recently, she appeared in the BBC television series ‘The Big Life Fix‘ as part of a team of desig…
Designing conversations about trust in medicine
Part of a new MEX series highlighting compelling case studies which catch our eye. Follow @mexfeed or by signing-up for the weekly email newsletter.
Using design language to establish trust is notoriously difficult. It is also a fast growing ne…
Video: Jérôme Le Feuvre’s #mexsession on UX of news in a multi-touchpoint era
At a time when news consumption has never been higher, Jérôme Le Feuvre considers how the nature of users’ engagement with content is changing. Le Feuvre talks about interface design patterns for news, understanding user intent and how new digital…
The greater the perceived need for 'gamification', the more likely the core proposition is misaligned with user behaviour
Blackberry, Psion, Nokia & styli at #MWC17: nostalgia hasn’t felt this good for a while
Novel concepts were not absent from Mobile World Congress 2017, but the honeyed lamplight of nostalgia proved the stronger lure for journalists:
- Alcatel TCL launched the Blackberry-branded KeyOne with a physical keyboard
- HMD anchored its r…
Video: Jason Mesut’s #mexsession on touch UI, tactility & musical inspiration for mobile design
Jason Mesut used his December 2010 MEX Session to prompt new thinking about physical controls, touch interfaces and mobile device form factors, inspired by his love of music making tools. Jason traces the development of music making interfaces and…
I ship Pokia, a tale of youth trends and unrequited smartphone partnerships
You can learn a lot from conversations with eleven year olds, it seems. This one came via my partner, whose colleague had brought her eleven year old daughter to work. Asked how she was and what she’d been doing recently, she replied, breezil…
Explaining UX principles in farming
Part of a new MEX series highlighting compelling case studies which catch our eye. Follow @mexfeed or by signing-up for the weekly email newsletter.
Argodesign’s work for FarmLink shows how user-centred design combines with data analysis for ne…