MEX Sessions: Sofia Svanteson on inspiring team creativity in UX design
Sofia Svanteson returned to MEX in December 2009 to share ideas on the creative process for digital user experience. Sofia is a pioneer in digital creativity, having worked with Razorfish in the early days of the dotcom era, before founding h…
Multi-sensory UIs need multi-sensory designers
Until recently, design focus has been primarily on screen-based experiences. But there is a growing distemper with this ‘pictures under glass’ mentality. More meaningful, human interactions can be achieved when additional senses are engaged. Altho…
MEX Sessions: Sian Townsend on mobile search behaviour in emerging markets
Sian Townsend, at the time a user experience researcher with Google, spoke at MEX in May 2009 on mobile user experience in the emerging markets of Africa. 2009 was a time when hundreds of millions of users in developing countries were joining…
MEX Sessions: Oren Horev on multi-touchpoint digital experiences & van drivers
Oren Horev, at the time a user experience strategist for Plan, spoke at MEX in May 2010. He shared the results of an ethnographic study into the mobile user experience of ‘van man’, a colloquial term in British society for the legion of delive…
MEX Sessions: Mattias Andersson on 3D & visual depth in mobile UX
Mattias Andersson, an interaction designer for Swedish agency Ocean Observations at the time, came to MEX in December 2010 to give a ground breaking presentation on the role of 3D in mobile user experience. It was a time when 3D televisions w…
Digital sustainability & sustaining digital
The timescales of sustainable living and daily decision making are very different. Risks of exhausting energy supplies, raw materials and climate change seem far off and, understandably, struggle to hold attention against more immediate matters of…
MEX Sessions: Nicholas Wheeler on the digital, multi-touchpoint evolution of media
Nicholas Wheeler came to MEX in December 2011 to share his view on the evolution of media in an age of multi-touchpoint digital experiences. With more than 30 years in the industry, including running radio stations and building some of the fi…
MEX Sessions: Chris Browne on expressing mobile creativity
Chris Browne spoke at MEX in May 2011 on the theme of new forms of creativity enabled by mobile technology. As Technology Design Lead for Fjord at the time, Chris’ shared experiences gained during client projects and a wider study into how pe…