The cutting edge of experience design:
- What’s on the horizon?
- New platforms and modes of interaction
- Insight and inspiration from adjacent fields.
UXLondon offers an excellent line-up of speakers with diverse backgrounds and subjects. Any one topic could fill pages once you start digging. I’ll just share what I found interesting, my key takeaways and my somewhat hasty sketchnotes. You’ll also find the links to most talks right below the sketchnotes. If you have any questions, want to know more or share your views please get in touch or comment.
Mark Rolston – Form Follows Me
“Smartphones and Tablets are not the future. They make our behaviour unnatural.” Mark is working towards tools that integrate better in our lives and solutions that centralise the computing of “dumb systems”. He showed us solutions that project information and register movement.
Here a glimpse of Mark’s future:
Smart Dumb Things
Mark also spoke about the gap between our physical and our digital selves and the challenges arising, when my digital-self starts communicating with your digital self.
Watch Mark Rolstons talk
Abi Jones – How We Talk and How Machines Listen – The Structure of Discourse in Human-Computer Interaction
Abi Jones is a speech recognition expert. She showed us the challenges of human – computer interaction in voice user interfaces (VUI)
By paying attention to cadence, cohesion, context and comprehensiveness we may achieve a more natural way of speaking to machines.
Sorry, no video.
Lysandre Follet – Design by Algorithms
Did you know, that the fancy pattern on the soles of Nike sports shoes are actually highly functional? There’s a huge amount of research, measuring, testing, algorithms and engineering involved. In fact, each shoe size has its own pattern researched and built for an optimised running experience.
If you’re into sports, watch the video!
Wath the talk: Lysandre Follet: Design by Algorithms
Adrian Westaway – Magic and Design: Using the Thought Process of Magicians to Design
“Technology alone is not magical”
“Devote time to finding dips in the user experience” “Make practical magic”
I find this pretty much sums it up. Welcome a better silverphone.
Watch the talk: Adrian Westaway: Magic and Design – Using the Thought Process of Magicians to Design New Experiences
Golden Krishna – The Best Interface is No Interface
This is my favourite talk of the three days. The challenge of creating back-pocket apps or at least apps, that reside as long as possible in your back pocket is a challenge to make us try harder to find better solutions.
Watch the talk here: Golden Krishna: The Best Interface is No Interface
