Pathway #9: Audible dimension

Setting your eyes free

Visual elements dominate the mobile user experience. This creates a pressured, synchronous relationship between the user's attention span and the…

14 years ago

The sound of photos

Following up on the recent essay on 'Sensation', MEX alumnus Ben King shared this article on 'Picle', an iOS application…

14 years ago

Sensation

Humans rely on many sensations to confirm their interactions with the physical world. Hitting a nail with a hammer produces…

14 years ago

Tapping other senses for the visually impaired

The BBC has an article on Georgie, a suite of applications to improve smartphone usage for those with visual impairment.…

14 years ago

High fidelity gestural interface

Reuben Kettle Aiers, one of the Brunel designers participating at the next MEX, shared this video of Leap, a forthcoming…

14 years ago

Gestures in a mobile context

The amount of transposition required to convert users' physical actions into digital form has ebbed and flowed over the years.…

15 years ago

Sound experiences outside the visual canvas

The brain has a remarkable ability to perceive the location of a sound source. If an object bangs on the…

15 years ago

Maps appropriate to context

The digital maps found on today's mobile devices derive from cartographic techniques hundreds of years old. User context, however, has…

15 years ago