digital strategy
TagFestive failings reveal cracks in multi-channel retail UX
There was a sense of desperation creeping in. I’d started ignoring those seemingly innocent and yet surprisingly consequential ‘Tick here if you’d prefer not to receive…’ boxes, simply because they were too small and awkward to navigate. By the …
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 …
Video: James Deakin’s #mexsession explores digital dieting & the 6th sense
Tapping a worldwide study looking at trends in digital user behaviour, James Deakin of Fjord talks about:
- The emerging need for digital dieting
- The sixth sense we are given by technology
- How experience quality is shaped by smoothing …
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…
Design principles for creating trust in digital UX
Transposing the intangible and very human notion of trust into the rigid world of digital products presents an especially difficult challenge for experience designers. In an environment constructed of absolute building blocks – 1s and 0s – how mi…
Thoughts on the UK’s Digital Strategy
Ed Vaizey, the UK’s digital economy minister, has asked for input on the government’s digital strategy by 19th January 2016. Following a dinner discussion in London with various interested parties, convened by Nico Macdonald under the auspices of…
MEX15 sets out to define the future of UX
Next week sees the 15th edition of MEX, entitled ‘Under the skin of user experience‘.
It is a 2 day gathering in London where a diverse mix of designers, technologists, strategists and investors convene with a common goal: defining the future o…