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TagDesign Talk 76. Placeful computing; Jared Ficklin, Chief Creative Technologist & founding partner, argodesign
Jared Ficklin’s approach of ‘think by making’ has led him to produce remarkable digital design work, often at the forefront of exploring new computing metaphors, from smartphones to spatial interfaces. In his conversation with MEX founder Marek Pa…
Design Talk 68. The future is in the air; Mark Rolston, co-founder, argodesign
Mark Rolston is working on the future, from mixed reality delivered via digital eyewear for the likes of Magic Leap, to experimental projects exploring how projected interfaces might materialise in the physical world. Mark talks to MEX founder Mar…
Beyond the rectangle: charting progress towards next generation UIs
The majority of digital interfaces will eventually break free of rectangular frames. The prison walls are coming down. We’re not there yet, at least not for most people, but soon. Soon enough that those desiring a stake in this future should be pl…
Design Talk 34. Josh Shabtai of Lowe’s Innovation Labs on retail experience design
With Amazon’s $13.7 billion acquisition of Whole Foods placing a spotlight on the future of retail experience design, MEX founder Marek Pawlowski talks to Josh Shabtai of Lowe’s Innovation Labs about how the home improvement giant is experimenting…
Exploring mortality in virtual reality
Part of MEX Inspirations, an ongoing series exploring tangents and their relationship to better experience design.
Could virtual reality help humans better consider their own mortality?
When We Die combines an abstract virtual reality scene with…
Design Talk 32. Death in VR; Paula Ceballos, experience designer
Experience design projected free of the frame
Display size governs the physical form factor of mobile devices and, by extension, determines the user experience. If the display could be freed from the confines of the physical frame – typically a rectangular canvas like a smartphone or tablet -…
Google’s wandering, inevitable path to ambient augmentation
Would you like to explore a tangent? It concerns chickens, antiques and the future of ambient augmentation.
About twice a week I like to buy eggs from a local farm. It is a walk of a few miles, along a country road at first and then across fields…