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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…
A smarter notes experience with LiquidText
Part of MEX Inspirations, an ongoing series exploring tangents and their relationship to better experience design.
LiquidText is an iPad app which allows the creativity and speed of free-hand annotation to co-exist with the benefits of structur…
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…
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…
Good UX flows from thorough user research
I’ve begun reading Roger Deakin’s Wildwood. Early on, he describes a series of school trips to Beaulieu in the New Forest, where he and other children observed and documented the flora and fauna of a 3 by 2 mile area. I’m in awe of what his biolog…
Flotsam and jetsam waiting for the digital tide
The man-made objects one finds washed up by the tide are comprised of flotsam, which is the result of accidental loss, and jetsam, which has been deliberately discarded. On 13th January 2017, a strong north westerly gale caused a five foot surge …
Iteration improves experience of sleep app
In a previous MEX podcast, I mentioned the sleep app Pzizz. It uses ‘psychoacoustics’ to put you to sleep: in simple, layman terms, soothing music that knocks you out.
Part of the 2016 Wayra UK cohort, back when I mentioned them, they had a fre…
I ship Pokia, a tale of youth trends and unrequited smartphone partnerships
You can learn a lot from conversations with eleven year olds, it seems. This one came via my partner, whose colleague had brought her eleven year old daughter to work. Asked how she was and what she’d been doing recently, she replied, breezil…