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CategoryMEX Notes: Jawbone Announces Up, A Wristband To Track Health – Co.Design
- Jawbone Announces Up, A Wristband To Track Health – Co.Design – Jawbone's new mobile health product combines the required attention to detail at the accessory level with the overall service vision needed to make a meaningful difference. As part…
MEX Notes: Video of PayPal's NFC payment experience
- Video of PayPal's NFC payment experience – This MocoNews.net article includes a video demonstration of two users exchanging money from their PayPal accounts by touching together their NFC-equipped Android phones. What do you think of the user e…
MEX Notes: Silence by Tadao Ando and Blair Associates (Dezeen)
- Silence by Tadao Ando and Blair Associates (Dezeen) – In a world where an ever growing number of digital interfaces shout for our attention, what is the role of quiet design? This piece of London street furniture serves no purpose but the aesth…
MEX Notes: Redesigning UK rail tickets
- Redesigning UK rail tickets – Steve Cable of CX Partners has written an interesting blog on the usability of UK rail tickets, with a particular focus on those reserved in advance. Although the medium is printed paper, the lessons about visual p…
MEX Notes: AT&T’s New ‘4G’ Gear Runs At Different Speeds With Same Branding
- AT&T’s New ‘4G’ Gear Runs At Different Speeds With Same Branding – AT&T's use of a single '4G' moniker to describe products with very different data throughput capabilities is a recipe for poor user experience. Consumer expectations are set by …
Russell Davies’ essays on secondary attention
Russell Davies has written an interesting series of articles on designing for secondary attention, a subject which has been consistent theme in the MEX community for some years, most recently with MEX Pathway #2. In the first article, entitled ‘T…
MEX Notes: Mobile is primary internet device for 25% of US subscribers – Pew
- Mobile is primary internet device for 25% of US subscribers – Pew – Pew's survey identifies a significant trend: a quarter of the US mobile phone users interviewed now rely on their device as their primary internet access point. To understand w…
MEX Notes: Apple seeks patents for 3D and 'physics metaphor' gesture controls
- Apple seeks patents for 3D and 'physics metaphor' gesture controls – One of the insights resulting from MEX Pathway #4 (initiated in July 2010 and entitled 'Identify ways 3D input and output enrich the user experience) has been that the experien…