Pathway #8: Enabling new forms of creativity
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Losing one’s self in selfie moments
Part of Friday Inspirations, an ongoing MEX series exploring tangents and their relationship to better experience design.
Two rather different sources have inspired some musing on the evolving photographic ritual of self-regard.
Sam Barsky kni…
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 …
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…
Search just got Pinteresting
Pinterest Lens allows users to capture inspiration from the real world and spark an exploration of ideas within the Pinterest service. Launched as a beta in February 2017, the video below shows the the concept:
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Reclaiming user personalisation of digital hardware
There was a time when a radio was something you could build at a home and a television could be repaired by a local technician. Consumer electronics have gradually become consumable in the literal sense of the word; we use them until they bre…
Design Talk 26. Wearable experience design
Marek Pawlowski and Alex Guest take up Patrizia Bertini’s challenge from the last episode and go in search of wearable technology beyond the smartwatch and fitness tracker. After questioning the term ‘wearable’ itself, Marek and Alex cite examples…
User story: sisters, airports & bear phones
Whatever they were doing, it was causing a lot of excitement. The younger sister launched herself forward from one of the long metal bench seats lining the airport waiting area. Her phone, an iPhone 4S, was held in front of her face like a viewf…
Video: Demangeat & Gilleland’s #mexsession on thinking with things
The opening session of MEX in March 2015 saw participants arriving to a conference room unexpectedly devoid of the usual chairs, screens and speakers. Instead, Think with Things (@thinkwthings | thinkwiththings.co.uk) – led by Isobel Demangeat & J…