February 2017
Video: Jason Mesut’s #mexsession on touch UI, tactility & musical inspiration for mobile design
Jason Mesut used his December 2010 MEX Session to prompt new thinking about physical controls, touch interfaces and mobile device form factors, inspired by his love of music making tools. Jason traces the development of music making interfaces and…
I ship Pokia, a tale of youth trends and unrequited smartphone partnerships
You can learn a lot from conversations with eleven year olds, it seems. This one came via my partner, whose colleague had brought her eleven year old daughter to work. Asked how she was and what she’d been doing recently, she replied, breezil…
Explaining UX principles in farming
Part of a new MEX series highlighting compelling case studies which catch our eye. Follow @mexfeed or by signing-up for the weekly email newsletter.
Argodesign’s work for FarmLink shows how user-centred design combines with data analysis for ne…
Design Talk 29. Strategic design; 1st anniversary special
Driving change with strategic design in diverse industries – from healthcare to automotive – has emerged as the dominant theme in the first year of the MEX podcast. Hosts Marek Pawlowski and Alex Guest review memorable insights from some of the 20…
Context aware UX should be sensitive to the lies users tell themselves, not just the binary facts understood by computers
How to successfully commission user experience projects
The hundreds of case studies I’ve seen presented throughout 12 years of our MEX conferences have taught me an important lesson: the fate of user experience projects is often sealed in the way they are commissioned.
There are four common mistake…
Examples of path dependence and where it might lead for smartphones
50 Things That Made The Modern Economy is a BBC World Service podcast. In short snippets of 9 minutes, Tim Harford, the FT journalist, discusses innovations that have played a crucial role in shaping the world today.
Yibu toy concept shows power of design intersections
Part of a new MEX series highlighting compelling case studies which catch our eye. Follow @mexfeed or by signing-up for the weekly email newsletter.
Yibu, a FrogLabs project, is a multi-touchpoint experience which combines five wooden toys, sen…