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CategoryA little MEX booklet on mobile UX Pathways
Ahead of next week’s 11th international MEX in London, we published a little booklet exploring the 6 MEX Pathways to the mobile UX horizon: Diffusion, Concurrency, Sensation, Context, Clarity and Speed. The 26 page publication poses questions for…
Nokia, Apple, experience and the near future
As we get ready to explore Pathways to a future mobile UX horizon at the next MEX in a couple of weeks, I’ve been watching current industry developments with interest. Here’s what I think of it all. I’d love to hear your feedback:
Nokia showe…
Feeling fast
Speed is subjective. As evidenced by the continuing ‘lag’ effect experienced on multi-core, multi-gHz smartphones, making an experience feel fast is not just a technical challenge. It also goes beyond the design of the individual experience and …
Not all pixels are equal
Pixel density is increasing on screens everywhere. The 4 inch displays of the latest smartphones show 1280 x 720 pixels, while Apple’s new Macbook Pros have 2880 x 1800 resolutions. This level of clarity is enabling new services only possible wi…
The day the world talked back
Contextually response digital experiences (the subject of Pathway #14) rely on information about the user’s world. The quantity of this information is increasing, with new sensors emerging to track and inform. Two that have caught my eye recentl…
Setting your eyes free
Visual elements dominate the mobile user experience. This creates a pressured, synchronous relationship between the user’s attention span and the device. MEX Pathway #9 asks how other senses, such as sound and touch, could be employed to create …
Concurrent usage
Designing for a single user at any one time has been a tenant of digital interface design since the first computing devices emerged. However, the proliferation of large touchscreen devices, has given rise to a new use case, where multiple users t…
Multi-touchpoint content isn’t yet primetime
The first generation of multi-touchpoint digital experiences has been about sharing content between screens. Apple’s AirPlay, for instance, allows users to send a video from their iPhone to an Apple TV-equipped big screen display. In Pathway #2,…