Pathway #10: Smart hardware additions
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Voicemail on future smartphone experiences
The last three years of smartphone progress can be described in one sentence: faster processors driving bigger screens with more pixels. For users, there is little real world functional difference between today’s flagship products and 2011 de…
Google Glass is a welcome experiment in bad user experience
Google Glass remains confined to a small niche of customers because the technology is unreliable, the features unappealing for most users and the price too high. In time, technological progress will solve issues of reliability and price, but f…
Retro trend calls out poor voice experience
Blackberry has announced the re-availability of the Bold 9900, a 3 year old, USD 449 device running the previous generation of Blackberry software, but renowned for its battery life, voice call quality and keyboard. Meanwhile, there are a …
Blending mechanical movement and digital awareness
Pixel Track from Berg on Vimeo.
Continuing the MEX series examining interactions, we look at Berg’s Pixel Track as an example of using movement to enhance utilitarian signage.
Watch the whole video above, but pay particular attention to the…
Degrees of location
Users’ relationship with places and objects varies according to several factors: distance, purpose and timescale to name but a few. Trakdot’s luggage tracking device is an example of how to adapt technology to those changing needs.
It promis…
Trusting in the limited appeal of Google Glass
My name is Ivy Ross… I look forward to answering the seemingly simple, but truly audacious questions Glass poses: Can technology be something that frees us up and keeps us in the moment, rather than taking us out of it? Can it help us look up an…
The futility of fighting Apple’s Stockholm Syndrome
User research is about understanding personal stories. For the sake of efficiency it is necessary to aggregate individuals’ experiences and prioritise designing for the most prevalent trends. However, in doing so, the personal meaning of each us…
The ugly experience of smartwatches
Smartwatches and other wrist wearables have been prominent at this year’s CES, the consumer electronics show which provides an early look at annual product trends.
Surely if everyone is announcing products in a new category, it must be on the c…