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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…
Video: James Deakin’s #mexsession explores digital dieting & the 6th sense
Tapping a worldwide study looking at trends in digital user behaviour, James Deakin of Fjord talks about:
- The emerging need for digital dieting
- The sixth sense we are given by technology
- How experience quality is shaped by smoothing …
Video: Jonny Burch’s #mexsession on the surprisingly complex art of ‘cool’ design
‘Cool’ is one of those complex, over-used terms often aspired to by experience designers but rarely delivered. Jonny Burch, at the time head of design for children’s financial brand Osper, takes on this tricky topic by exploring examples which ill…
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…
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 …
Industrial rhythm, migration, nostalgia: the societal fabric enveloping UX
This is part of a series of provocations to fuel discussions at the MEX/16 conference. Follow @mexfeed for more, join the debate at #mexdesign16 or by posting your comment below.
When we get it right, individual user needs are interpreted in t…
User research. What next?
This is part of a series of provocations to fuel discussions at the MEX/16 conference. Follow @mexfeed for more, join the debate at #mexdesign16 or by posting your comment below.
Everything we do starts with users. At least, it should.
The …
Design Talk 11. UX trends past & future, a 10-10 discussion
Hosts Marek Pawlowski and Alex Guest examine user experience trends from 3 points on a timeline: 10 years past, the present and 10 years into the future. Alex discusses scenarios relating to his travels in Patagonia, trust, social networking and t…