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TagVideo: Jérôme Le Feuvre’s #mexsession on UX of news in a multi-touchpoint era
At a time when news consumption has never been higher, Jérôme Le Feuvre considers how the nature of users’ engagement with content is changing. Le Feuvre talks about interface design patterns for news, understanding user intent and how new digital…
Video: Arun Vasudeva’s #mexsession on building multiple experiences within content consumption
As media evolves into a changing, dynamic entity accessed from numerous different touchpoints, the challenges of experience design multiply. Arun Vasudeva’s session draws on his experimental work with one of the world…
Simplifying the flow of creativity in iOS
“For those, like me at times, who want more tools or are used to tools available in desktop software, iOS now enables easy access to the editing functionality of third party apps…What is particularly striking here is that the app functionali…
Mozilla’s Webmaker seeks to turn consumers into creators
With our ongoing series about improving the user experience of pivoting between consuming and creating digital content, I was intrigued by Mozilla’s launch of Webmaker, an Android app designed to simplify the process of creating and sharing web pa…
Design principles for restoring focus to digital consumption
Our collaborative exploration of user experience at the intersection of consumption and creativity (described in this essay by Alex Guest and Marek Pawlowski) has deep roots. User behaviours associated with modes of both consumption and creativit…
The feel of paper, the convenience of bytes
I buy one newspaper a week, the Weekend FT. I suppose it is partly because I enjoy walking to the shop to buy it on a Saturday morning and partly because I like the feel of turning the improbably large pages at the breakfast table. It is an illo…