Category: Mobile
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Julia Shalet explains about user research
Last night, I attended another great class at the Mobile Academy. Julia Shalet, Course Director at the Mobile Academy, talked about how one can do user research (and do it well). Julia started by stressing the importance of choosing the right research method to suit the corroboration of one’s assumptions. She talked about the difference…
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“Designing Multi-Device Experiences” (Book Review)
This article was first published in July ’14 on http://www.nirandfar.com/2014/07/how-successful-companies-design-for-users-multi-device-lives.html: We live in a world where the number of connected devices is growing on a daily basis at an immense rate, with people constantly switching between these devices (PCs, smartphones, tablets, TVs and more). The question arises how we can design optimally for a device to…
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Priya Prakash explains about Design Principles at Mobile Academy
As part of the Mobile Academy curriculum, I recently attended a class by Priya Prakash on “design principles”. Priya is a very experienced designer and has founded Design for Change, a London-based urban experience design studio. Priya started off the session by explaining that design principles describe the experience of core values of a product or a…
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A sneak preview of the Avegant Glyph
Even though it has yet to launch, I’m very intrigued by the design and promise of the Avegant Glyph. The “Glyph” is a new headset (see Fig. 1), set to launch in early 2015, which integrates Avegant’s core “virtual retina display” technology into a headset. Even though the design of the Avegant Glyph looks similar to the Oculus…
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Circa (Product Review)
The other day, I was looking at news apps to subscribe to and one of the apps that I discovered was Circa. I installed the iOS version of the app on my device and had a play with it. As always, I applied the product critique template by Julie Zhuo as I was testing the Circa…
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