Pathway #7: Expressing sustainability in mobile user experience design
CategoryOf batteries, startup culture & things which fall on your head
Dan Hill published this wonderful, roaming essay which begins with the expectations of the caricatured, generic product launch and goes on to explore the real, user-centred implications of developments like Tesla’s Powerwall batteries.
As startu…
Saying what you mean, meaning what you say
Apple sent me an email today, along with presumably several million other customers. The message I took away from it: I should buy someone an Apple product to enable them to unleash their creativity. It’s the sort of thing you get from every com…
Introducing ‘Locate’
We make countless decisions in response to our location every day. Something so fundamental to being human seemed a fitting theme to add to the MEX user modes, not least because digital experiences in this area have hitherto been driven more by t…
Summary of the 12th MEX: sensory interfaces, context aware UX, new form factors & better user research
Mobile as the new old
For me, this was the first MEX where ‘mobile’ – understood as a device alone – started to feel traditional and old. From the outset in 2005, the heart of the MEX community has always been in the mo…
MEX Sessions: Sian Townsend on mobile search behaviour in emerging markets
Sian Townsend, at the time a user experience researcher with Google, spoke at MEX in May 2009 on mobile user experience in the emerging markets of Africa. 2009 was a time when hundreds of millions of users in developing countries were joining…
Digital sustainability & sustaining digital
The timescales of sustainable living and daily decision making are very different. Risks of exhausting energy supplies, raw materials and climate change seem far off and, understandably, struggle to hold attention against more immediate matters of…
MEX Sessions: Simon East on designing UIs for sustainable living
Simon East spoke at MEX in May 2011, addressing how user experience design could respond to and shape customer’s attitudes towards sustainability. Sharing case study examples from his automotive efficiency startup DriveGain, Simon talks throu…
Bringing customisation closer to the customer
There was a time when handset manufacturers and network operators talked of delivering personalisation right down to the level of individual customers. For manufacturers, it meant ever more diverse products targeting smaller segments. The economic…