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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…
Life beneath the hovering eye
My dog noticed it first. His ears rose to the deep buzzing sound just audible above the coastal breeze. He looked up at me with his most inquisitive frown. It grew louder as we walked on, sounding like the hum of a city power generator or a swa…
Principles for natively neighbourly multi-touchpoint experience design
If you listen to tech podcasts, you’ll likely already be familiar with curse of the keyword. When a presenter says ‘Ok Google’ or ‘Hey Siri’ on their podcast, thousands of listeners’ devices all over the world automatically initiate a search. It…
Intro to user research in 4 videos: better interviews to generative techniques
Rory Southworth’s video series of 4 ‘lightening’ sessions on user research starts with the basics of how user insights drive better design decisions and goes on to explain a range of techniques for delving deeper into user motivations.
Each of …
Imagining the antiquity of the present
Have you been to your bank recently?
It’s a lovely phrase that. Between the words you can almost smell the musty, well trodden carpet and faux wood panelled interior of little high street bank branches up and down the country.
Enjoy it whil…
Reference library for digital user experience
An evolving list of free resources with data and insights describing digital user experience. Latest entries at the top of the page. To contribute, please add a comment to this post containing the link, report title, author, a quote and a single…
Experimenting with Microsoft Hyperlapse
Brief thoughts on the user experience of Microsoft Hyperlapse:
While Hyperlapse corrects motion through a combination of image processing and hiding imperfections through speed, it does not solve the issue of cam…
Digging digitally at the intersection of consumption and creativity
It was a Sunday in May and, if we wanted the beans to the grow, it was time they were in the ground. So I found myself on the windswept allotment, under the big white clouds and blue of a Norfolk sky, digging over that patch of ground which had be…