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CategoryA MEX reading list for digital user experiences
We prepared a concise reading list on digital user experience to get participants in the mood for our next MEX (24th – 25th September, London). We thought we’d share it here too for anyone with an interest in design. Something for the weekend, pe…
Microsoft won, Nokia nil
The agreement between Microsoft and Nokia is more complex than an outright acquisition, comprising a cash payment to acquire Nokia’s devices and services business, ongoing commitments by Microsoft to license certain Nokia p…
User modes as the raw ingredients of digital experience
By Marek Pawlowski (mp@pmn.co.uk / bio) & Andrew Muir Wood (amw@pmn.co.uk / bio)
The best way to design successful digital products is by understanding how users’ behaviour changes according to their mode.
Modes can be defined as the common …
Google’s $35 Chromecast opens new multi-touchpoint UX possibilities
Remember all those big, disconnected screens sitting in the corner of rooms, the ones we call TVs? It was only a matter of time before someone started putting them on the web. That someone, it seems, is Google, which today started selling a USD…
Nokia Lumia 1020 inspires creative experience
I’m conscious just a few days have elapsed since publishing my essay on the Nokia Lumia 920, but at the risk of exhibiting bias towards the Finnish company, yesterday’s launch of the Lumia 1020 cannot go unmentioned.
It is a unique product….
Experiencing the Nokia Lumia 920
Plastic is not a material traditionally associated with craft. It lacks the obvious elegance of wood or metal. Nokia’s use of plastic in the Lumia 920, however, approaches craft. Its edges are smoothed and rounded the way a carpenter might …
Finding truth in experience design
The Foundation, an organisation I’ve collaborated with on several occasions, hosted a discussion last night on truth. It focused primarily on what happens when historical truth is confronted or revealed, illuminating the subject through the experi…
Exploring quiet design, sensory interfaces and human factors at Made in Brunel
Last weekend the MEX collaboration with Brunel University saw us experimenting with a new type of open workshop at the Bargehouse on London’s Southbank. It was hosted as part of Made in Brunel, the multi-day event organised annually by studen…