Sustainable mobility through mobile technology
A team comprising design agency Lunar, university researchers at Wuppertal in Germany and sustainable living initiative Green City has created a concept for the future of urban mobility, referred to as ‘Mo‘. The system ties together existing …
Meet the speakers: Jo Rabin
Jo has led numerous Pathway teams at MEX, guiding his groups to the creation of new ideas and advancing the state of mobile user experience for the community. He returns to MEX as the facilitator for Pathway #10, where he will lead the work on…
Meet the speakers: Ben Medlock
Ben’s team developed the popular SwiftKey application for Android, using A.I. to improve the experience of typing on mobile devices. His session at MEX will focus on Pathway #12, investigating the emergence of ‘inference technologies’ to model…
Meet the speakers: Alyson Webb
Alyson Webb is a partner at Frankly, Green + Webb, helping cultural organisations experiment with mobile, designing experiences that help audiences interpret and connect with complex stories, objects and environments often through audio. Alyso…
Meet the speakers: Andrew Muir Wood
Andrew Muir Wood is a user experience planner at Plan Strategic in London. Previously he completed a PhD at the Design Management Group at Cambridge University’s Institute for Manufacturing which examined the patterns and drivers of change in …
Meet the speakers: Lindsey Green
Lindsey Green is a partner at Frankly, Green + Webb, working with cultural and historic organisations, helping them to use mobile’s unique capacity to deepen engagement through learning and play. She will be delivering a session at MEX as part…
DriveGain powers Dutch initiative to reduce CO2
The most recent MEX in May 2011 saw an insightful presentation from Simon East, CEO of DriveGain, on designing mobile experiences for sustainable living. I was interested to see DriveGain is now working with Fuelless, a Dutch government-backed in…
Android Beam – an inelegant interaction?
The video above (from an article by This Is My Next) shows Android’s new Beam feature. It uses NFC to transfer information between two devices, allowing users to exchange maps, web pages, contacts and more.
This is a much hyped use case fo…