Pathway #7: Expressing sustainability in mobile user experience design
CategoryMEX Sessions: Robert Fabricant on mobile user experience
Robert Fabricant spoke at MEX in May 2009 about how mobile user experiences goes far beyond digital interfaces and should be understood in the wider context of the services it drives. He was responding to what was at the time MEX Manifesto No…
Customer pressure reverses Apple approach to environmental ratings
Apple has reversed its decision to abandon EPEAT ratings for its products after customer feedback highlighted how unpopular the decision was. It is an interesting example of the nascent sentiments which inspired MEX Pathway #7 on expressing sustai…
Crafting experience
The Victoria & Albert Museum’s ‘Power of Making‘ exhibition highlighted the intricate and creative skills required to build experiences in the physical form. The pre-requisites for the exhibition’s most successful items seemed to be knowledge of m…
Sustainable device values
Julius Tarng, a designer at Smart Design in New York, shared details of his personal project exploring the human relationship with mobile devices. Tarng’s extensive sketches and prototype photographs highlight two key elements of his Modai co…
Sustainable mobility through mobile technology
A team comprising design agency Lunar, university researchers at Wuppertal in Germany and sustainable living initiative Green City has created a concept for the future of urban mobility, referred to as ‘Mo‘. The system ties together existing …
DriveGain powers Dutch initiative to reduce CO2
The most recent MEX in May 2011 saw an insightful presentation from Simon East, CEO of DriveGain, on designing mobile experiences for sustainable living. I was interested to see DriveGain is now working with Fuelless, a Dutch government-backed in…
MEX Notes: Movirtu takes you closer to real users at the bottom of the pyramid
- Source article: Movirtu takes you closer to real users at the bottom of the pyramid
- MEX note: Ramona Liberoff, a MEX alumnus and EVP at Movirtu (winner of the the MEX Innovator of the Year Award in 2010), got in touch to share this research t…
MEX Notes: Technology As A Material
- Source article: Technology As A Material
MEX note: This essay by Tom Armitage is a thoughtful exploration of how practitioners think about technology. Armitage proposes that technology can be understood as both a tool and a material:
"Technology …