Category: Innovation

Description The Internet of Things is the next great opportunity for commerce to engage with business enterprises. However there is no unified approach to the mental load between physical interaction, mental interaction and digital interaction. This cognitive landscape is inhabited by associated experiences that gel human behaviour and machine interfaces through, touch, mouse and keyboard. Read More

Developing a flexible, secure, integrated SCADA infrastructure to fully support the evolving smart grid in Amsterdam, 21st March 2013 YouTube Video of slides from talk http://youtu.be/9e5RNuqzBww Read More

A great deal of effort is being spent on customer experience and user experience that misses the point, experience is about desire, not process or fulfilment. Desire drives behaviour Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) proposed the concept of psychological hedonism, which asserts that the “fundamental motivation of all human action is the desire for pleasure”. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1588–1679) claimed that “self-consciousness Read More

A UX portfolio shows the candidate is a thief and the interviewer opens a legal claim against them for viewing confidential information. The request for UX portfolios are what happens when graphic designers end up in charge of a UX department. In graphics, most things get published in the public domain so it’s completely fine Read More

Ever since transformation and change were linked to technology some of the worst parts of both have been combined on a national level and within major companies. Giving users less functionality than they currently have and telling them it’s a great leap forward. It is astonishing but this is the most common failing in projects, Read More

I have been involved in project and program management since 1989 across various sectors and more recently have been focused in banking and finance. I have experience in Prince and Agile methodologies and will expand on the blending of these two methods through the use of user stories (a user experience method) and the positive relationship Read More

Subsistence, Resolution, Gain or Advantage UX? What do clients require, what are clients getting and can they tell the difference in the level of ux or do they just not call again? There is a major problem with user experience as it evolves, many practitioners are not underwriting their output with recent ux research but are Read More

Clients don’t understand their customers, they just think they do! The most common problem with UX is based upon a limitation on research set by the clients themselves and the perception that they know ‘their users/customers’. Clients will often reduce or not pay for UX research, but this is like leaving out a building foundation because Read More

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