Pathway #13: Quiet design
CategoryLeverage changes in UI ambience to convey non-urgent information
Video: James Deakin’s #mexsession explores digital dieting & the 6th sense
Tapping a worldwide study looking at trends in digital user behaviour, James Deakin of Fjord talks about:
- The emerging need for digital dieting
- The sixth sense we are given by technology
- How experience quality is shaped by smoothing …
Google’s wandering, inevitable path to ambient augmentation
Would you like to explore a tangent? It concerns chickens, antiques and the future of ambient augmentation.
About twice a week I like to buy eggs from a local farm. It is a walk of a few miles, along a country road at first and then across fields…
Hey Siri, am I clear to land?
I was lucky enough to be taken for a flight in a small four seater plane, touring over New Jersey, USA. It provided insight into the role of audio as a data channel, especially in an environment of complex controls.
The panel of instruments wa…
Video: Jérôme Le Feuvre’s #mexsession on UX of news in a multi-touchpoint era
At a time when news consumption has never been higher, Jérôme Le Feuvre considers how the nature of users’ engagement with content is changing. Le Feuvre talks about interface design patterns for news, understanding user intent and how new digital…
Explaining UX principles in farming
Part of a new MEX series highlighting compelling case studies which catch our eye. Follow @mexfeed or by signing-up for the weekly email newsletter.
Argodesign’s work for FarmLink shows how user-centred design combines with data analysis for ne…
Why are these mobile interactions from Apple, Blackberry, Nokia & Huawei memorable?
Small moments of interaction design have disproportionate power to define the overall user experience.
Consider pinch to zoom. There was a time when it was novel, now it is innate. The speed at which it has become part of human behaviour tells …
User story: flowering future forward
There’s always a first warm day in March, when winter’s low skies open into the blue promise of spring. It rarely lasts. Not in England.
But today the lawns of the garden square were dry for the first time that year and already filling with the…