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Living with a Moto 360 smartwatch and thoughts on a wearable future
I first wrote about the Moto 360 in December 2014. Suffice to say I was not impressed:
“The Moto 360 looked very different in real life to the media I’ve seen online. Without any attempt to show it in context, or market it as a luxury item,…
What’s your answer to the big #mex15 UX question?
What’s the most important user experience innovation the tech industry should focus on today to change the way humans’ use digital 4 years from now?
Please post your reply as a comment below (jump to comments section).
Every year I a…
UI lessons from urban design
Which part of this street is the most dangerous for the average pedestrian?
- The area with the bold, diagonal red lines
- The parallel, double yellow lines
- Or the path marked by the faint, blue dashed lines
The blue dashed li…
The extraordinary choices of the Blackberry Passport
There’s nothing else like it: blocky and solid, with a row of physical keys beneath a square display. It is because of these unusual characteristics that I knew I had to try the Blackberry Passport for myself. I wanted to understand whether, by pu…
User story: early learning the hidden costs of tablets
“Are you playing a game?” I looked up to find a boy of about 6 years old, in his school uniform and still wearing his rucksack, reaching out towards my iPad. His sister, a year or two younger, looked on with equal curiosity. I’d been absorbed in…
Funding for UX from Innovate UK
There are several user experience-focused funding and development opportunities running in H1 2015 which will be of interest to the MEX community. Two are themed around the idea of ‘Better interactions between people and machines’, such as ways o…
Analysing Apple’s Continuity: limited utility today, potential to introduce new experiences
The ability to have calls and texts across Apple devices might offer the most immediate practical utility, but it is the least interesting part of Apple’s wider Continuity strategy. Continuity is based around the notion each device, like an iPhon…
The art of ignoring annual predictions
Tis the season for annual predictions in the technology industry. I choose to ignore them, and you should too.
The 2015 roadmap for the kind of technologies such articles cover – smartphones and software and gadgets – was already defined 6 to 1…