Most popular user experience articles of 2016

One thing became clear from compiling these rankings of the most popular content on mobileuserexperience.com: digital experience design encompasses an ever broader constituency, from pioneers of artificial intelligence and virtual reality to those at the forefront of new user research techniques.  Of course, we expect these patterns to inform the direction of the MEX initiative – from our conferences to consulting – in 2017, along with a few little surprises we’re working on.

Top 11 by unique visitors
  1. Acquisitions & long-term growth strategies for design agencies *
  2. Living with a Huawei Watch
  3. Design Talk 10. Artificial intelligence; Nathan Benaich, Partner, Playfair Capital
  4. Industrial rhythm, migration, nostalgia: the societal fabric enveloping UX
  5. Design principles for creating trust in digital UX
  6. Spectacles as a gateway to novel visual conversations
  7. Design Talk 15. Automotive UX; Parrish Hanna, Global Director, Interaction & Ergonomics, Ford
  8. Design Talk 1. Intelligent surroundings; Patrizia Bertini; little faces, big screens
  9. Design Talk 14. Crafting UX for digital healthcare
  10. Design Talk 12. Virtual, augmented & mixed reality; Greg Taylor, General Manager of Tigerspike Next
  11. User experience principles for robots & IoT

Top 11 by social score

  1. Design Talk 15. Automotive UX; Parrish Hanna, Global Director, Interaction & Ergonomics, Ford
  2. Summary from MEX/16: new skills for a changing world of experience design
  3. Design Talk 10. Artificial intelligence; Nathan Benaich, Partner, Playfair Capital
  4. Speakers & themes for MEX/16
  5. Acquisitions & long-term growth strategies for design agencies *
  6. Design Talk 12. Virtual, augmented & mixed reality; Greg Taylor, General Manager of Tigerspike Next
  7. User story: flip phones, retirees and Blackberry Passports
  8. Announcing MEX Design Talk, the podcast about UX
  9. Design Talk 1. Intelligent surroundings; Patrizia Bertini; little faces, big screens
  10. User experience principles for robots & IoT
  11. Design Talk 4. Digital consumption UX; Sabrina Majeed, Buzzfeed; sports TV at the bus stop

(Social score is a composite metric derived from how many times the content was shared (e.g. on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook), the amount of conversation it generated and unique visitors.)

* Our overall criteria was to only include articles first published on mobileuserexperience.com during 2016, with the exception of ‘Acquisitions & long-term growth strategies for design agencies’, which was originally published September 2015, but updated several times in 2016.
Marek Pawlowski

Marek Pawlowski is the founder of MEX. Since 1995, he has focused the MEX business on helping digital industries to develop better, more profitable products through improved understanding of user behaviour with mobile devices and wireless networks. MEX is best known for its events, research and consulting, which balance commercial, technical and user insights to define the future of mobile user experience.

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