August 2015
Principles for establishing digital tone of voice in automotive UX
If you imagine every button and touchscreen gesture contributes to an ongoing digital conversation between user and product, what is your brand’s tone of voice? Moreover, who is responsible for crafting this nuanced sound in your organisation and …
The creative experience of fake phone calls
These days iPhones have made everybody a photographer, which makes the ability to nail that shot – the one that captures the essence of a place and its inhabitants, all the more precious. Enter Jay Giampietro, a New Yorker who has perfected the…
Simplifying the flow of creativity in iOS
“For those, like me at times, who want more tools or are used to tools available in desktop software, iOS now enables easy access to the editing functionality of third party apps…What is particularly striking here is that the app functionali…
Mozilla’s Webmaker seeks to turn consumers into creators
With our ongoing series about improving the user experience of pivoting between consuming and creating digital content, I was intrigued by Mozilla’s launch of Webmaker, an Android app designed to simplify the process of creating and sharing web pa…
Inspiring new forms of creative expression through mobile devices
As part of our ongoing series about improving user experience in that crucial moment when transitioning between a mode of consumption and a mode of creativity, we made separate investigations into both ‘Consume’ and ‘Create’ as distinct themes. T…
Design principles for restoring focus to digital consumption
Our collaborative exploration of user experience at the intersection of consumption and creativity (described in this essay by Alex Guest and Marek Pawlowski) has deep roots. User behaviours associated with modes of both consumption and creativit…
How can UX improvements encourage users to pivot from consuming to creating?
By Alex Guest and Marek Pawlowski
This essay is the first in a series on the intersection between digital consumption and creativity by Alex Guest and Marek Pawlowski. To follow the forthcoming stream of articles, UI concepts and examples, trac…