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5 point plan for using artificial limitations to improve experience design

Which assumptions have become the static furniture of your brain's design studio? Smartphones, perhaps? When was the last time you…

9 years ago

Smartphones moved by machines

Now that Sharp is controlled by Foxconn - the company which quietly makes many of the world’s smartphones - it…

10 years ago

5 hallmarks of strategic vs tactical UX projects

Describing user experience projects as ‘strategic’ versus ‘tactical’ is sometimes seen as interchangeable with ‘good’ versus ‘bad’. It is over-simplification…

10 years ago

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…

10 years ago

How to successfully commission user experience projects

The hundreds of case studies I've seen presented throughout 12 years of our MEX conferences have taught me an important lesson:…

10 years ago

Video: Arun Vasudeva’s #mexsession on building multiple experiences within content consumption

https://vimeo.com/76077890 As media evolves into a changing, dynamic entity accessed from numerous different touchpoints, the challenges of experience design multiply.…

10 years ago

Why are these mobile interactions from Apple, Blackberry, Nokia & Huawei memorable?

Small moments of interaction design have disproportionate power to define the overall user experience. Consider pinch to zoom. There was a time…

10 years ago

Video: Ben Scott-Robinson’s #mexsession on reimagining digital mapping UX at Ordnance Survey

Seeking a path between the traditions and detail which have defined Ordnance Survey maps and the changing needs of a…

10 years ago