Pathway #14: Context
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Making a case for the seductive promise of zero UI
Glacial is the only word for it. I pressed one of the blue buttons and waited. Somewhere in the mechanical heart of this relic I imagined cogs whirring and a rusted belt chain creaking into action. At length, something happened on the dot matri…
Algorithms and a more plastic experience design
In a demonstration of how algorithms are playing an increasing role in determining user experience, hundreds of millions of Google customers are about to see a change to their voice search and dictation experience. This results not from a fresh s…
Video: Louisa Heinrich’s #mexsession discusses the etiquette of robot UX
As digital machines gain greater autonomy, Louisa Heinrich (@customdeluxe | louisaheinrich.com) talks about our expectations of this coming generation of entities which will bridge the physical and digital worlds, blurring the definitions of ‘robo…
Digging digitally at the intersection of consumption and creativity
It was a Sunday in May and, if we wanted the beans to the grow, it was time they were in the ground. So I found myself on the windswept allotment, under the big white clouds and blue of a Norfolk sky, digging over that patch of ground which had be…
Funding for UX from Innovate UK
There are several user experience-focused funding and development opportunities running in H1 2015 which will be of interest to the MEX community. Two are themed around the idea of ‘Better interactions between people and machines’, such as ways o…
Designing for the intensity of the future
At the frontier of digital, the industry is poised to ask a new question of its users: how do you expect technology to behave when it no longer requires your direct control and is all around you?
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User story: the Postmistress and her Lumia
It speaks to the modest success of Windows Phone that to see one in the wild still feels rare.
I walked into the local Post Office the other day and, amid the clutter of parcels behind the counter, there it was: a Lumia 925 in grey. It belonge…
Discussing Smart Design’s the ‘Internet of Why?’
The internet of things, ubiquitous computing, wearables and context-awareness are just a few of the monikers being applied to the frontier where digital endeavour meets the physical world.
Smart Design coined another term at its October 2014 ev…