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Trusty tools: 3 days, 750 photos and 10,000 words on a Blackberry KeyONE and LG G4
10,000 words in 3 days on a Blackberry KEYone, most of them written while walking or standing. I didn’t realise my thumbs had been so busy until I looked at the word count a couple of days after I returned from Mobile World Congress, where I’d bee…
Design Talk 59. Rethinking smartphones; Jo Barnard, Founder, Morrama
Jo Barnard is founder of the London-based design agency Morrama. She talks to Marek Pawlowski about the journey she’s been on since founding the business four years ago. The conversation turns to the development of Morrama’s beautifully considered…
Design Talk 42. Psion revisited in the Gemini PDA? Martin Riddiford, Therefore Design and Davide Guidi, Planet Computers
The Gemini PDA by Planet Computers brings a much loved form factor back to the world of smartphones – the clamshell, keyboard-based palmtop. In this episode, MEX founder Marek Pawlowski talks to Martin Riddiford of Therefore Design and Davide Guid…
Design 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…
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…
Examples of path dependence and where it might lead for smartphones
50 Things That Made The Modern Economy is a BBC World Service podcast. In short snippets of 9 minutes, Tim Harford, the FT journalist, discusses innovations that have played a crucial role in shaping the world today.
Getting straight to the Punkt
As I slipped the SIM card into the Punkt MP 01, I was fully aware that my other assorted devices still had wifi connectivity. Only if I left them behind would I be truly bereft of the myriad digital services that punctuate my day with information,…