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Smartphones moved by machines
Now that Sharp is controlled by Foxconn – the company which quietly makes many of the world’s smartphones – it has taken a logical next step: combining Foxconn’s economies of scale with Sharp’s brand recognition to re-enter the high-end smartphone…
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 to assume that strategic work is more valid than tactical, but the ability to categorise …
Experience design projected free of the frame
Display size governs the physical form factor of mobile devices and, by extension, determines the user experience. If the display could be freed from the confines of the physical frame – typically a rectangular canvas like a smartphone or tablet -…
Google’s wandering, inevitable path to ambient augmentation
Would you like to explore a tangent? It concerns chickens, antiques and the future of ambient augmentation.
About twice a week I like to buy eggs from a local farm. It is a walk of a few miles, along a country road at first and then across fields…
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…
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: the fate of user experience projects is often sealed in the way they are commissioned.
There are four common mistake…
Video: Arun Vasudeva’s #mexsession on building multiple experiences within content consumption
As media evolves into a changing, dynamic entity accessed from numerous different touchpoints, the challenges of experience design multiply. Arun Vasudeva’s session draws on his experimental work with one of the world…
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 when it was novel, now it is innate. The speed at which it has become part of human behaviour tells …