Monthly Archives:
September 2011
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: Disney Appmates turns iPad into virtual playmat
- Source article: Disney Appmates turns iPad into virtual playmat
- MEX note: This is one of the most interesting examples we’ve seen so far of a multi-touchpoint user experience, combining physical toys with a virtual playmat simulated on …
Content dominates 3D UX for DoCoMo, Orange, Disney
We’ve been looking at how 3D and visual depth can enhance the mobile user experience for some time now as part of MEX Pathway #4. One of the lessons we’ve already learned is that 3D content consumption alone is rarely enough to persuade user…
MEX Notes: Halo funded for Wi-fi offload as capacity constrains UX
- Source article: Halo Networks Gets Series A Of £1.6 Million To Offload Mobile Data To WiFi
- MEX note: Improving the user experience of Wi-fi offload will contribute to solving one of the industry’s largest challenges: every byte of capacit…
The next MEX is coming. Get in touch to participate.
30th November – 1st December 2011 | WallaceSpace, London
MEX is where 100 of the industry’s deepest thinkers gather to define the cutting edge of mobile user experience in 7 curated MEX Pathways.
There are 5 ways to get involved and ever…
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: Samsung Galaxy S II HD pushes display boundaries to 1280 x 720
- Source article: Samsung Galaxy S II HD pushes display boundaries to 1280 x 720
- MEX note: What will designers do with 1280 x 720 pixels, arranged on a 4.65 inch super AMOLED, at a density of 316 pixels per inch? Samsung’s latest Android handse…
MEX Notes: Why Does Interaction Design Matter?
- Source article: Why Does Interaction Design Matter?
- MEX note: Robert Fabricant, MEX alumnus and one of the leaders at Frog Design, wrote this article for FastCode on the importance of interaction design. It has a particularly interesting…