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Long-term review: Lenovo’s Yoga Book, a flexible enough tool for creators?
There is a theatrical air of the imagined future about Lenovo’s Yoga Book.
On the one hand, its hinge is reminiscent of traditional book binding. On the other, it possesses an intricacy you might expect to find in some alien spacecraft buried in …
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
Yibu toy concept shows power of design intersections
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.
Yibu, a FrogLabs project, is a multi-touchpoint experience which combines five wooden toys, sen…