Pathway #6: Thinking outside the slate
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Pin badge with a multi-touchpoint design approach
Part of a new MEX series highlighting compelling case studies which catch our eye. Follow MEX @mexfeed or by signing-up for the weekly email newsletter.
Pins Collective is a $69 wearable digital badge which can be personalised to display diffe…
Life beneath the hovering eye
My dog noticed it first. His ears rose to the deep buzzing sound just audible above the coastal breeze. He looked up at me with his most inquisitive frown. It grew louder as we walked on, sounding like the hum of a city power generator or a swa…
Designing mobile devices at the intersection of creativity & consumption
The stories behind why novel product categories are introduced are often more important than the first product in the new line-up. In the 20 years I’ve been writing about technology, I’ve…
User experience principles for robots & IoT
As connected objects and machines gain autonomous movement, the designers crafting these experiences must consider the implications of their work. Once a digital entity is able to take action outside the virtual sphere and capable of affecting th…
Experiencing the Apple Watch at retail
The Apple Watch occupied about 20 times more floorspace than the new MacBook when I visited the company’s Regent Street store in April 2015. The Watch’s display units stretch the full width of the store and are the first things a customer sees upo…
The demise of smarter rectangles
When a man like Sundar Pichai, responsible for the platform powering the majority of the world’s mobile devices, speaks up, one does well to take note. Android is understood today in the context of how well it performs on the little slabs of plast…
Living with a Moto 360 smartwatch and thoughts on a wearable future
I first wrote about the Moto 360 in December 2014. Suffice to say I was not impressed:
“The Moto 360 looked very different in real life to the media I’ve seen online. Without any attempt to show it in context, or market it as a luxury item,…
The extraordinary choices of the Blackberry Passport
There’s nothing else like it: blocky and solid, with a row of physical keys beneath a square display. It is because of these unusual characteristics that I knew I had to try the Blackberry Passport for myself. I wanted to understand whether, by pu…