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TagDesign Talk 68. The future is in the air; Mark Rolston, co-founder, argodesign
Mark Rolston is working on the future, from mixed reality delivered via digital eyewear for the likes of Magic Leap, to experimental projects exploring how projected interfaces might materialise in the physical world. Mark talks to MEX founder Mar…
Consistency and confidence flow from effective design systems
Consistency builds confidence. The introduction of a design system can ensure consistent delivery for complex organisations, as demonstrated in this example created for the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 1977 by Chermayeff …
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…
Self-serving machines and the human antidote
It was seven o’clock in the morning. We were four self-service screens and four user experience failures into our journey.
It didn’t help that there hadn’t been enough time for coffee before my partner and I left the house, but even fully caffe…
Clarity, with hindsight: the pixel-dense world of the Surface Hub 2
When Microsoft’s Surface Hub 2 ships in 2019, it will hold the possibility of engaging a 200+ inch touchscreen, with a resolution in excess of 15360 x 2160 pixels. For comparison, that’s about 9 times the number of pixels found on Apple’s iPad Pro…
Design Talk 43. Cognitive UX; Jennifer Sukis, Creative Director, IBM Watson
Jennifer Sukis is working at the intersection of user-centred design and artificial intelligence, leading the creative team for IBM Watson. She talks to MEX founder Marek Pawlowski about when truly cognitive digital experiences may arrive, the cha…
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…
Design Talk 39. Gregg Vanderheiden, Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure
Gregg Vanderheiden talks to Marek Pawlowski about the Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure (GPii) – a multi-partner, multi-country effort to ensure technology is universally accessible. As well as being the initiator and one of the driving force…