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TagDesign Talk 33. Kwame Nyanning, VP, Experience Design, McKinsey
As design grows in strategic influence, how important is language in helping diverse practitioners from different fields collaborate towards an overall goal? Kwame Nyanning, VP of Experience Design at McKinsey, talks to MEX founder Marek Pawlowski…
5 hallmarks of strategic vs tactical UX projects
Describing user experience projects as ‘strategic’ versus ‘tactical’ is sometimes seen as interchangeable with ‘good’ versus ‘bad’. It is over-simplification to assume that strategic work is more valid than tactical, but the ability to categorise …
Design Talk 31. Craig Bryant, We Are Mammoth; patience and incubating agency ventures
This episode is a story which gets to the heart of the challenges facing digital agencies, from remote working to incubating in-house ventures, as Craig Bryant talks to Marek Pawlowski about his journey co-founding We Are Mammoth. Craig shares his…
Methods and mindsets for circular design
Part of a new MEX series highlighting compelling case studies which catch our eye. Follow @mexfeed or by signing-up for the weekly email newsletter.
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation and IDEO collaborated to produce a detailed, practical guide to …
How to successfully commission user experience projects
The hundreds of case studies I’ve seen presented throughout 12 years of our MEX conferences have taught me an important lesson: the fate of user experience projects is often sealed in the way they are commissioned.
There are four common mistake…
Design Talk 28. Roger Andersson Reimer, co-founder, TOPP; multi-touchpoint design
Roger Andersson Reimer, co-founder and UX Director of Swedish design agency TOPP, talks to Marek Pawlowski, founder of MEX, about multi-touchpoint experience design. The discussion includes TOPP’s emergence from the history of TAT and Blackberry, …
Video: Franco Papeschi’s #mexsession on digital craft & sustainability
Franco Papeschi spoke at MEX in May 2011, exploring the theme of sustainability. He talked about what digital craftsmanship might mean and how deep understanding of your working materials is essential when trying to create experiences which persua…
Sennep’s playful exploration of digital design materials
Part of a new MEX series highlighting compelling case studies which catch our eye. Follow @mexfeed or by signing-up for the weekly email newsletter.
Seeds is where design agency Sennep experiments with digital materials, from animated typograp…