strategy
TagYesterday’s modernity as a lens on the future’s dreamland
I recently found myself looking through a copy of V E Johnson’s Modern Inventions from 1915. I’m still not sure how it ended up on my shelves, but it has rewarded with rich passages, rising at times to something which feels like techno-historic po…
Design Talk 73. Post-pandemic strategy; Samar Héchaimé, co-founder, Agora Envisioning
Samar Héchaimé joins MEX founder Marek Pawlowski for a special discussion – recorded with a live web audience – exploring how we might transform our post-pandemic systems and organisations by putting people at the heart of future strategy. Drawing…
MEX Live: Samar Héchaimé talks post-pandemic design strategy with Marek Pawlowski
On the show
- Samar Héchaimé, Co-founder, Agora Envisioning (@shechaime)
- Marek Pawlowski, podcast host & founder, MEX (@marekpawlowski)
Recorded 6th May 2020, approx. 1 hr. If you prefer to listen to an aud…
Design Talk 52. Amy Daroukakis, Director of Cultural Intelligence, Adjust Your Set; Seeking Reality
Amy Daroukakis has spent her career helping others to see the deeper reality behind users’ lives. Through travel, observation and research she is constantly on the look out for emerging trends. Her work has included time in-house at one of the wor…
More to see as smartphone cameras slowdown
Slowing down can help one see the previously unseen. This is as much a philosophical as a practical observation. In many ways, the two seem dependent: by allowing oneself the time to observe in leisurely detail, one is making a choice to think at …
Design Talk 50. Onika Simon talks troublemaking, user reality checks & delivering innovation under pressure
How does a journey which begins with a degree in philosophy – and a chance conversation with a librarian – lead to a surprise move from Manchester to New York, one of the advertising industry’s foremost fellowship programmes and a career-long inte…
User story: iPhoning for the first time
Part of MEX User Stories, an ongoing series of tales about digital user experience in the real world.
“I’m going to get an iPhone,” she said. “I’ve decided.”
She had spent the previous several minutes confiding the woes of her three year old Sam…
Smartphones moved by machines
Now that Sharp is controlled by Foxconn – the company which quietly makes many of the world’s smartphones – it has taken a logical next step: combining Foxconn’s economies of scale with Sharp’s brand recognition to re-enter the high-end smartphone…