Pathway #13: Quiet design
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YotaPhone’s dual screen experience
The YotaPhone launched today with a 720p colour screen on the front and a 4.3 inch e-ink display on the back. It is a unique combination and a welcome innovation in a market where form factors remain stagnated around the generic, single scree…
Exploring quiet design, sensory interfaces and human factors at Made in Brunel
Last weekend the MEX collaboration with Brunel University saw us experimenting with a new type of open workshop at the Bargehouse on London’s Southbank. It was hosted as part of Made in Brunel, the multi-day event organised annually by studen…
15th June 2013: join MEX & Made in Brunel creative sessions in London
On Saturday, 15th June, we’re running a series of 90 minute creative exercises at Made In Brunel, where participants can explore 3 themes inspired by MEX Pathways and Brunel’s designers:
- Quiet design: digital interactions which await user…
MEX Sessions: Priya Prakash on quiet design
Priya Prakash returned to MEX in December 2011 as Head of UX for mobile phones at Nokia. Building on a previous MEX session some years earlier, she talked about the principles of quiet design and how digital experiences might evolve in a worl…
Seeing through sensors
Clouds: beta from DEEPSPEED media on Vimeo.
The video above is a clip from Clouds, a documentary about programming by Jonathan Minard and James George. The interviews are shot using a Kinect 3D camera and interposed with visualisations from …
Searching for new UI metaphors
There were few visual interface developments which stood out at Mobile World Congress, not least because the small application developers at the forefront of UI experimentation were noticeably absent. This may be due in part to the increased cost…
Displaying visual quiet
How will our relationship with digital displays change when they can show a fixed image almost indefinitely in low power mode and survive autonomously for weeks at a time in the mobile environment without charging?
Displays are currently the la…
Subtle interaction and sensory engagement
Digital technology rarely inspires emotion. It can be an effective conduit for emotion: transmitting a message to a loved one, for instance, or sharing the first picture of a new family member. However, the medium itself rarely evokes emotion in…