Pathway #13: Quiet design
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Clarity
New mobile device displays achieve a level of clarity such that users are unable to discern individual pixels. Far from being a purely technical advance, this is causing a remarkable effect on end users, who can observe new levels of detail and f…
Sense and the City
The London Transport Museum has an exhibition entitled ‘Sense and the City‘ (until 18th March 2012) exploring how digital technologies, particularly mobile devices, are integrating into the transportation and architectural landscapes of cities.
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Fun changes behaviour
Luke Gray, one of the Brunel designers participating at MEX, chose this video of Volkswagen’s Fun Factor group using playful design to encourage people to use stairs rather than escalators.
It touches on several of the MEX Pathway areas, in…
The elegance of natural engineering
The MEX blog is featuring ideas, images and videos selected by the designers at Brunel University in the build-up to the next MEX event on 30th November/1st December 2011.
Each breakout team at MEX is supported by a pair of Brunel designers, wh…
Meet the speakers: Priya Prakash
When we were thinking about how best to celebrate the 10th anniversary edition of MEX, it seemed entirely natural to ask Priya Prakash to return to present the opening session of the event. Her 2009 MEX session on balancing commercial imperati…
Touch, painting and depth
SOAK from everyware.kr on Vimeo.
MEX alumnus Dominic Sebastian shared this intriguing video from Everywear in Korea. The designers used a Kinect 3D camera to sense how the surface of a spandex sheet changed when touched by the user. A project…
Nokia’s Ahtisaari on design patterns: why go from lounge to kitchen via the front door?
This Copenhagen Design Week talk by Marko Ahtisaari, head of design at Nokia, explores the 2 most common patterns in mobile OS design and asks whether there is another way.
Ahtisaari compares the centralisation of the iOS model with navigat…
MEX Notes: BERG’s James Darling prototypes bus interface with quiet design techniques
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MEX note: MEX alumnus Andrew Muir Wood shared this article from James Darling at BERG, explaining how he prototyped a simple application to show the status…