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Spectacles as a gateway to novel visual conversations
Who would pay $130 to adorn their face with plastic spectacles of questionable aesthetic merit, capable of recording a mere ten second burst of video? You could be forgiven for dismissing Snap’s Spectacles as a symptom of an over-funded and over-h…
Intro to user research in 4 videos: better interviews to generative techniques
Rory Southworth’s video series of 4 ‘lightening’ sessions on user research starts with the basics of how user insights drive better design decisions and goes on to explain a range of techniques for delving deeper into user motivations.
Each of …
Designing mobile devices at the intersection of creativity & consumption
The stories behind why novel product categories are introduced are often more important than the first product in the new line-up. In the 20 years I’ve been writing about technology, I’ve…
Canvas to orb: an inflexion point in digital experience design?
A new metaphor for a new digital epoch
Connected history has been defined by the rapid broadening of the user base. Its future will instead be determined by the deepening of connected experiences for existing users.
This seemingly subtle adjustm…
Experimenting with audio in digital experience design
This is the story of a MEX experiment in audio design, where we blindfolded 100 conference participants and played them three original compositions – each a minute in length – by Peter ‘pdx’ Drescher.
Participants were allowed to briefly remove…
User story: the selfie and the daisies
It was her stillness which caught my attention. She sat on the grass with an almost statue-like absence of motion. Slowly she raised an expensive, complicated digital camera until it was positioned in front of her face, the colour display angled t…
Design Talk 12. Virtual, augmented & mixed reality; Greg Taylor, General Manager of Tigerspike Next
What will the experience feel like for the first users of virtual, augmented and mixed reality? How might designers prepare for this new, multi-dimensional digital canvas? Hosts Marek Pawlowski and Alex Guest discuss with Greg Taylor, General Man…
Design principles for creating trust in digital UX
Transposing the intangible and very human notion of trust into the rigid world of digital products presents an especially difficult challenge for experience designers. In an environment constructed of absolute building blocks – 1s and 0s – how mi…