smart home
TagDesign Talk 71. Heart of the home; Ashton Snook, Head of Design, Hive
Ashton Snook joins MEX founder Marek Pawlowski to share how Hive is approaching the complex, multi-touchpoint challenge of delivering good customer experience for its smart home products. Ashton talks about the user research and product design asp…
A more natural interface for weather
The Weather Cube, designed by Yu Zhuang and featured in this post by Yanko Design, is an alternative interface for meteorological information. Using ultrasonic actuators, it changes the nature of the water contained within a sealed cube to reflect…
UX risks in Google’s new multi-touchpoint visual responses
Google Home, the speaker embedded with the company’s voice assistant, will soon be able to display results on nearby TVs and phones. It provides a significant new mainstream example of how multi-touchpoint experience design enables digital interac…
Defining user experience in the cold light of day
I went into the kitchen to grab something from the fridge. It was late evening and I made my way through the darkness. Then I opened the fridge door and released the light.
I wondered, at that moment, when it was that the light got into the…
User story: ’twas the night before Christmas
‘Twas the night before Christmas and all throughout the house not a creature was stirring, not even a…
Well, it’s a lovely thought but times, it seems, have changed. In fact, it was actually a few nights before Christmas, we were at a friend…
Design Talk 6: Dr. Mike Short CBE, Telefonica; MEX catch-up
Dr. Mike Short CBE, VP of Public Affairs at Telefonica, is interviewed by Marek Pawlowski and we catch-up on the latest happenings in the MEX community, from robot and IoT design principles to welcoming a new MEX/16 patron.
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User experience principles for robots & IoT
As connected objects and machines gain autonomous movement, the designers crafting these experiences must consider the implications of their work. Once a digital entity is able to take action outside the virtual sphere and capable of affecting th…