Inspirations
CategoryFlotsam 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 …
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 simple, layman terms, soothing music that knocks you out.
Part of the 2016 Wayra UK cohort, back when I mentioned them, they had a fre…
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…
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 Harford, the FT journalist, discusses innovations that have played a crucial role in shaping the world today.
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…
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 through the darkness. Then I opened the fridge door and released the light.
I wondered, at that moment, when it was that the light got into the…
Francis Ford Coppola, user research and ‘bioimaged’ vs ‘autobiographical’
About 2 minutes in the interviewer comments: “Your films are not so much autobiographical as bioimaged.”
This is from ‘Blank on Blank‘, a Youtube series which animates old audio interview recor…
Serendipity and discovering supercreativity
Supercreativity is the latest PopTech ‘Edition’, comprising videos, a reading list and an ongoing discussion forum. In their words:
Supercreativity provided an intimate setting to explore perspectives on creativity as technology tools help us …