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TagDesign Talk 41. UX of iPhone X; Steve Litchfield, producer, The Phones Show
Just how significant are the user experience changes in iPhone X and what hints do they give us about the future of mobile innovation? Steve Litchfield, technology journalist and one of the world’s most experienced reviewers of smartphones, shares…
Drones: product or service?
It was news to me, certainly, that a drone maker like DJI would be responsible for geofencing its products to limit their use in military situations, as this article from The Register explains. It went on to be widely reported, including in the Fi…
Design principles for digital presence
If we were sitting opposite each other, how many different ways might you evaluate my level of attentiveness to our conversation? You might consider:
- Am I looking at you or out of the window?
- Am I leaning forwards or sitting back?
- Di…
Design Talk 35. Wearable health; Christian Lindholm, CEO, Koru
Christian Lindholm, a pioneer of mobile experience design, has his sights set on enabling a new generation of wearables for health and fashion. He talks to MEX founder Marek Pawlowski about his journey from Nokia in the 1990s, where he shipped the…
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…
Smartphones moved by machines
Now that Sharp is controlled by Foxconn – the company which quietly makes many of the world’s smartphones – it has taken a logical next step: combining Foxconn’s economies of scale with Sharp’s brand recognition to re-enter the high-end smartphone…
Video: Jonny Burch’s #mexsession on the surprisingly complex art of ‘cool’ design
‘Cool’ is one of those complex, over-used terms often aspired to by experience designers but rarely delivered. Jonny Burch, at the time head of design for children’s financial brand Osper, takes on this tricky topic by exploring examples which ill…
Losing one’s self in selfie moments
Part of Friday Inspirations, an ongoing MEX series exploring tangents and their relationship to better experience design.
Two rather different sources have inspired some musing on the evolving photographic ritual of self-regard.
Sam Barsky kni…