user research
Design Talk 50. Onika Simon talks troublemaking, user reality checks & delivering innovation under pressure
How does a journey which begins with a degree in philosophy – and a chance conversation with a librarian – lead to a surprise move from Manchester to New York, one of the advertising industry’s foremost fellowship programmes and a career-long inte…
User story: iPads and heirlooms
They were seated close to each other around an old, circular wooden table at the back of the café. Two ladies with grey heads craning their necks over the faint blue glow of an iPad. The comings and goings of the café murmured around them. They we…
Design Talk 37. Louise Oakham, user experience designer
Louise Oakham’s career in experience design has ranged from leading in-house departments for large companies to specialising as a freelance independent practitioner. After being inspired by her talk on international user research techniques, MEX f…
MEX Jobs weekly: design research & UX architect roles
MEX Jobs is a curated list of experience design roles from agencies & in-house teams who share the user-centred values of the MEX community.
Roles featured for week commencing 10th April 2017 include:
- Design researcher | Frankly Green & Web…
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…
User story: flowering future forward
There’s always a first warm day in March, when winter’s low skies open into the blue promise of spring. It rarely lasts. Not in England.
But today the lawns of the garden square were dry for the first time that year and already filling with the…
Design Talk 27. Alex Genov, Head of UX Research, Zappos
Alex Genov, head of UX Research at Zappos, talks to Marek Pawlowski, founder of MEX, about designing retail experiences, understanding users as people and emerging user research methods. The conversation covers Genov’s early interest in experimen…
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…