Pathway #11: Super local connectivity
CategoryWhere is the tactile future amid all the smooth glass?
Dimitrios Stamatis, one of the Brunel designers participating at the next MEX, selected Bret Victor’s ‘A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design‘ as his inspiring piece.
Victor’s essay takes issue with the proliferation of concept design…
Meet the speakers: Isobel Demangeat
We invited Isobel to MEX to share insights from her recent study of augmented reality, responding to MEX Pathway #11. Isobel’s experience, interaction design and user research encompass the full spectrum of digital interactions, with a strong …
Meet the speakers: Andrew Muir Wood
Andrew Muir Wood is a user experience planner at Plan Strategic in London. Previously he completed a PhD at the Design Management Group at Cambridge University’s Institute for Manufacturing which examined the patterns and drivers of change in …
Android Beam – an inelegant interaction?
The video above (from an article by This Is My Next) shows Android’s new Beam feature. It uses NFC to transfer information between two devices, allowing users to exchange maps, web pages, contacts and more.
This is a much hyped use case fo…
Nokia launches set-up service for NFC tags and posters
In a sign of the imminent mass market arrival of NFC ‘touch-to…’ technology, Nokia has launched a service for creating NFC tags and posters. The NFC Hub enables users to order NFC tags pre-programmed with Facebook and Foursquare check-ins, Twit…
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: Retailers, cash rich, to spend on IT: report
- Retailers, cash rich, to spend on IT: report – Technology aimed at facilitating short range wireless transactions, such as NFC for mobile payments, is slowly making its way into mobile devices, with Nokia, HP, HTC and Samsung all starting to bui…