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TagEmojis and designing bond markets
China’s bond market had been limited to domestic Chinese investors until the July 2017 introduction of ‘Bond Connect’, a gateway service based in Hong Kong. This enables investors outside of China to trade bonds on the mainland for the first tim…
Antisocial technology
Terminal C at Newark Airport is home to one of the least sociable deployments of technology I’ve come across. Pairs of vertically mounted iPads bisect almost every table at the cafés, bars and restaurants which line the concourse. The result is a …
Parakeets, problem analysis and the beauty of inconvenience
In his 2014 book Being Mortal, Atul Gawande tells the story of how Dr. Bill Thomas, a medical director at a nursing home in upstate New York, improved the experience of residents by challenging conventional elder care practices. Thomas believed th…
Caffeine, sugar & design | NYC | 21/11/17
- What: Caffeine, sugar & design
- Where: Financial district, New York City
- When: 9am, November 21st 2017
- How: Free to attend, just send me a note if you’d like an invite
We’re having a little MEX meet-up and coffee morning in NYC f…
5 point plan for using artificial limitations to improve experience design
Which assumptions have become the static furniture of your brain’s design studio?
Smartphones, perhaps? When was the last time you imagined an experience which didn’t involve the presence of a smartphone?
What about a visual interface? How many …
Design Talk 36. Closure experiences; Joe Macleod, author of Ends
Joe Macleod’s book ‘Ends’ asks us to consider why we have such difficulty designing closure experiences. He talks to MEX founder Marek Pawlowski about how the thinking behind the book emerged from a career in mobile technology with Nokia and desig…
Digital exploration seeks an emotional rather than a logical outcome
The multi-sensory experience design of a Harley
Part of MEX Inspirations, an ongoing series exploring tangents and their relationship to better experience design.
When asked about Harley Davidson’s enduring appeal, the great grandson of the company’s co-founder uses a vocabulary which suggests…