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A smarter notes experience with LiquidText
Part of MEX Inspirations, an ongoing series exploring tangents and their relationship to better experience design.
LiquidText is an iPad app which allows the creativity and speed of free-hand annotation to co-exist with the benefits of structur…
Flotsam and jetsam waiting for the digital tide
The man-made objects one finds washed up by the tide are comprised of flotsam, which is the result of accidental loss, and jetsam, which has been deliberately discarded. On 13th January 2017, a strong north westerly gale caused a five foot surge …
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…
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…
User story: ’twas the night before Christmas
‘Twas the night before Christmas and all throughout the house not a creature was stirring, not even a…
Well, it’s a lovely thought but times, it seems, have changed. In fact, it was actually a few nights before Christmas, we were at a friend…
User story: snap snap snap
Wall Street was already hustling and bustling at 7:30am on the Monday before Thanksgiving. However, amid the desk workers jostling their way into the skyscrapers, a few tourists posed for their photos in front of the New York Stock Exchange. Behin…
Spectacles as a gateway to novel visual conversations
Who would pay $130 to adorn their face with plastic spectacles of questionable aesthetic merit, capable of recording a mere ten second burst of video? You could be forgiven for dismissing Snap’s Spectacles as a symptom of an over-funded and over-h…
Design Talk 4. Digital consumption UX; Sabrina Majeed, Buzzfeed; sports TV at the bus stop
This episode goes in-depth on digital consumption, looking at user behaviours, design principles and future user experiences.
On this edition
- Marek Pawlowski, co-host & founder of MEX (@marekpawlowski)
- Alex Guest, co-host & CEO of Zingy.l…