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…
User story: sisters, airports & bear phones
Whatever they were doing, it was causing a lot of excitement. The younger sister launched herself forward from one of the long metal bench seats lining the airport waiting area. Her phone, an iPhone 4S, was held in front of her face like a viewf…
Challenge a Brunel student for a new design perspective
If you’re looking for an injection of fresh ideas and human-centred innovation, Brunel University runs a highly regarded scheme for companies to tap into the skills of its design and engineering students. Companies submit their briefs, which are …
User story: Hello Grandma!
The waterside has a magnetic draw. It pulls people down to the quay: young and old, tourists and locals alike. By 7am on a warm Saturday morning in July you will already encounter a diverse cast of characters. There are the dog walkers, of cour…
Video: Louisa Heinrich’s #mexsession discusses the etiquette of robot UX
As digital machines gain greater autonomy, Louisa Heinrich (@customdeluxe | louisaheinrich.com) talks about our expectations of this coming generation of entities which will bridge the physical and digital worlds, blurring the definitions of ‘robo…
User story: the shattered image
“Oh yeah, that went a long time ago,” the dad said when I asked him about the spider’s web of cracks spreading out from the corner of the iPad’s screen. He seemed resigned to the fate of the expensive tablet, as if its demise had been inevitable …
Video: Demangeat & Gilleland’s #mexsession on thinking with things
The opening session of MEX in March 2015 saw participants arriving to a conference room unexpectedly devoid of the usual chairs, screens and speakers. Instead, Think with Things (@thinkwthings | thinkwiththings.co.uk) – led by Isobel Demangeat & J…
Reference library for digital user experience
An evolving list of free resources with data and insights describing digital user experience. Latest entries at the top of the page. To contribute, please add a comment to this post containing the link, report title, author, a quote and a single…