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Exploring mortality in virtual reality
Part of MEX Inspirations, an ongoing series exploring tangents and their relationship to better experience design.
Could virtual reality help humans better consider their own mortality?
When We Die combines an abstract virtual reality scene with…
The multi-sensory experience design of a Harley
Part of MEX Inspirations, an ongoing series exploring tangents and their relationship to better experience design.
When asked about Harley Davidson’s enduring appeal, the great grandson of the company’s co-founder uses a vocabulary which suggests…
A smarter notes experience with LiquidText
Part of MEX Inspirations, an ongoing series exploring tangents and their relationship to better experience design.
LiquidText is an iPad app which allows the creativity and speed of free-hand annotation to co-exist with the benefits of structur…
Gita, the faithful fast forward follow drone
Gita is a cylindrical cargo robot capable of carrying a 40 lb load for its human companion. Developed by Piaggio Fast Forward, a product studio within the 130 year old Italian manufacturer, Gita challenges common assumptions about the role of robo…
5 hallmarks of strategic vs tactical UX projects
Describing user experience projects as ‘strategic’ versus ‘tactical’ is sometimes seen as interchangeable with ‘good’ versus ‘bad’. It is over-simplification to assume that strategic work is more valid than tactical, but the ability to categorise …
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 …
Losing one’s self in selfie moments
Part of Friday Inspirations, an ongoing MEX series exploring tangents and their relationship to better experience design.
Two rather different sources have inspired some musing on the evolving photographic ritual of self-regard.
Sam Barsky kni…