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Minimum viable phone for an adventure?
Part of MEX Inspirations, an ongoing series exploring tangents and their relationship to better experience design.
I recently went along to A Night Of Adventure, a collection of talks by adventurers with a particular twist: each talk was accompan…
Video: Jason Mesut’s #mexsession on touch UI, tactility & musical inspiration for mobile design
Jason Mesut used his December 2010 MEX Session to prompt new thinking about physical controls, touch interfaces and mobile device form factors, inspired by his love of music making tools. Jason traces the development of music making interfaces and…
Reclaiming user personalisation of digital hardware
There was a time when a radio was something you could build at a home and a television could be repaired by a local technician. Consumer electronics have gradually become consumable in the literal sense of the word; we use them until they bre…
Design Talk 26. Wearable experience design
Marek Pawlowski and Alex Guest take up Patrizia Bertini’s challenge from the last episode and go in search of wearable technology beyond the smartwatch and fitness tracker. After questioning the term ‘wearable’ itself, Marek and Alex cite examples…
Design Talk 24. Mat Hunter, Managing Director, The Central Research Laboratory; manufacturing renaissance
Mat Hunter, Managing Director of the Central Research Laboratory, talked to Marek Pawlowski, founder of MEX, about the manufacturing heritage of CRL’s unique startup acceleration facility and his plans for a design-led hardware renaissance in the …
Designing mobile devices at the intersection of creativity & consumption
The stories behind why novel product categories are introduced are often more important than the first product in the new line-up. In the 20 years I’ve been writing about technology, I’ve…
User story: flip phones, retirees and Blackberry Passports
They joined the train at Cambridge, the halfway point on the line from Kings Lynn in Norfolk to Kings Cross in London. Two ladies, about 60 years old, dropping wearily into their seats with the air of relief worn by those who feel they ‘just made’…