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As User Experience matures as a discipline and the mainstream gets and values UX this has made us think harder about recruiting User Experience talent.  I look back at my CV of old and remember my previous job applications, and now that I’m looking from the inside out and recruiting for our UX team, it seems that things have got a whole ...

Do you want to work with awesome brands including Tesco, Virgin Media, BBC & Barclays?  Do you have an inherent belief in applying User Centered Design techniques to create intuitive, usable and inspired experiences? If so, we have several opportunities available for talented, experienced, UX rockstars, as either User ...

  The usual #Surface suspects have been posting their Microsoft Surface tips on Twitter.  To avoid losing these design recommendations for this interaction paradigm in to the twittersphere I have collated the first 20 tips below.   If anyone wants to suggest further tips then please use the hashtag ...

I’m taking a respite from my recent glut of multi-touch posts and jumping back in to the web paradigm with one of my favorite ecommerce topics – the online checkout process.  An online retailer has asked me to solve the mystery of why a high number of shoppers are going AWOL during their checkout process. My concern is that I am ...

On multi-touch devices like Microsoft Surface and the SMART table multiple users interact with digital content concurrently.  These digital social experiences extend beyond a poke and a tweet as users interact face-to-face.  The success of these multi-user social platforms depends on the familiarity of the users, a cocktail of ...

Having read an article on how to increase one's productivity it got me thinking whether there is something missing from our design strategies. We want users to achieve their mental peak when using an application but what are we doing to encourage this?  Where is the Mental Strategy?  Research shows that mental performance is improved ...

  Ouch! Received an email this morning stating that playful design has no place in a business context!   For the last 3 weeks a small team of us have been working on an Enterprise Search application and we finally have something to show for our hard endeavours.  Our Microsoft Surface Enterprise Search demo rears it's pretty ...

Before the festive holiday kicked in I intended to design a Microsoft Surface Card Sorting application but time ran out without me getting much further than a brief conversation over a cuppa with some user experience colleagues and a few very rough and barely legible sketches of the application interface. To make sure I don’t ...

In a previous post, Object Recognition leads the way for Microsoft Surface, I touched on how Microsoft Surface recognizes devices placed on top of it.  Microsoft Surface reads a small square 8-bit tag that is attached to an object so that users can interact with it.  The tag is a combination of dots that works like a barcode. When ...

  Childlike, in many ways, I retained that inquisitive nature which makes children so frustrating and adorable in equal measures.  Not a thing escapes Isobel’s attention without the questioning of what is that daddy? The Internet gives me access to such a wealth of information and satisfies my urges as an information whore.  ...