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New digital opportunities in the macro view
In tech, it is always tempting to focus on the micro, but we forget the influence of the macro at our peril. For instance, while countless words continue to be written on reassuringly easy subjects like iOS versus Android, less time is dedicated …
Most popular design podcasts of 2016
When Alex, Patrizia and I launched the MEX podcast in February 2016, we begun with a notion: an ongoing conversation with our diverse community about how to design better digital experiences. However, we could not have anticipated it would lead t…
Design Talk 25. UX Review 2016
Patrizia Bertini, Alex Guest and Marek Pawlowski pick their most memorable digital – and non-digital – user experiences from 2016. With examples ranging from virtual reality and conversational interfaces to home baking and biodegradable thank you…
Summary from MEX/16: new skills for a changing world of experience design
This much was clear from MEX/16: we must prepare for a future quite different from today’s world of smartphone primacy.
Emerging technologies such as virtual reality, artificial intelligence and multi-sensory interfaces are changing the skills re…
Spectacles as a gateway to novel visual conversations
Who would pay $130 to adorn their face with plastic spectacles of questionable aesthetic merit, capable of recording a mere ten second burst of video? You could be forgiven for dismissing Snap’s Spectacles as a symptom of an over-funded and over-h…
Design Talk 15. Automotive UX; Parrish Hanna, Global Director, Interaction & Ergonomics, Ford
Automotive is an industry in transition. The challenge is two-fold: an immediate need to enhance digital elements of the vehicle experience, while contemplating the longer term – and arguably more significant – conceptual revolution in personal m…
Design Talk 12. Virtual, augmented & mixed reality; Greg Taylor, General Manager of Tigerspike Next
What will the experience feel like for the first users of virtual, augmented and mixed reality? How might designers prepare for this new, multi-dimensional digital canvas? Hosts Marek Pawlowski and Alex Guest discuss with Greg Taylor, General Man…
Hiring, growth and the long-term cycle of user-centred design skills
About once a day I receive an email from a contact, usually the head of UX at a larger company or the founder of a design agency, and it goes a little like this:
“Hi, it’s X. I’m struggling to hire someone who can ‘…insert various user-c…