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In praise of imperfect phones
My old Moto Z2 Play has seen better days. The glass has a little spiderweb of fine cracks around the earpiece. The screen is scuffed. There’s a deep chunk gouged from the top of the aluminium frame.
And I love it. I love the way it wears all it…
Leap! (randomly), a 15 min exercise
Over the last 3 months I’ve been fortunate to record conversations with 3 accomplished people whose open, insightful thinking broadened my horizons:
3 guests, 3 principles and 3 stories about the role of user-centred design
Every couple of weeks for the last few years, I’ve been lucky enough to sit down with someone who has done something pioneering in the world of user experience and just talk to them – really talk – for a good hour or so. We record it, then put it …
Beyond the rectangle: charting progress towards next generation UIs
The majority of digital interfaces will eventually break free of rectangular frames. The prison walls are coming down. We’re not there yet, at least not for most people, but soon. Soon enough that those desiring a stake in this future should be pl…
Trusty tools: 3 days, 750 photos and 10,000 words on a Blackberry KeyONE and LG G4
10,000 words in 3 days on a Blackberry KEYone, most of them written while walking or standing. I didn’t realise my thumbs had been so busy until I looked at the word count a couple of days after I returned from Mobile World Congress, where I’d bee…
Will the big generational leaps in digital devices always align with new input methods?
The big generational changes in digital are often underpinned by the arrival of new input technologies.
Punch cards gave way to keyboards as computers moved from dedicated rooms to desks. The mouse arrived and computing broadened from business …
Clarity, with hindsight: the pixel-dense world of the Surface Hub 2
When Microsoft’s Surface Hub 2 ships in 2019, it will hold the possibility of engaging a 200+ inch touchscreen, with a resolution in excess of 15360 x 2160 pixels. For comparison, that’s about 9 times the number of pixels found on Apple’s iPad Pro…
Good talk
Keep talking, I say.
Hosting the MEX podcast gives me an opportunity for in-depth conversations with diverse practitioners from all over the world. Sometimes I know my guests already, but in the 45 episodes we’ve recorded, I’ve never failed to …