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I was lucky enough again to be able to present at MIX this year (you can see some slides from it scattered in this post and the video link is here). MIX09 for me was the first time I’ve really seen design be the major talking point and a key focus for the Microsoft organisers. A lot of this boiled down to one man: Bill Buxton. Bill is Principal ...

OK, with just a week to go it’s time to tell you what we’re doing at MIX this year. Last year, I looked at a whole bunch of stuff in Virgins, Spaceships and Hobnailed Boots but we focused in on a few things like the power of brand experience, and how you go about it with the philosophy of Total Experience Design where you have to look wider than ...

Imagine a digital utopia where designers are free from grid-based design, and precision mouse control & clicks are replaced by gestural mechanisms. Where imagination is not exclusively for the mavericks to throw a curve ball at what’s achievable. Where we move away from the chair-and-desk paradigm and the frightening portrait WALL-E ...

Friday 28th November saw the first of the Virgin Atlantic VJAM workshops to brainstorm ways to improve the travel experience for customers.  Conchango took the Microsoft Surface unit along and I played guardian and host of this device for most of the day.  The attendees included travel professionals, experts in social media and ...

During the Surface workout Isobel demonstrated the magic of Microsoft Surface.  The one feature of Microsoft Surface that Bel didn’t touch on was object recognition.  Yet object recognition is one of the features of Microsoft Surface that really excites me. The five cameras inside the unit can recognise objects placed on the ...

  My good pal Steve Clayton posted tonight about my session at MIX and referenced an audience member, who was indeed from Otto, the company who own the Oli brand. Yes, he said that the LookBook functionality we invented and then built for them has double the conversion rate from a standard non-LookBook user on the website. And I agree with ...

Inspired by James Saull and Andrew Shillaber... it's my turn! There are some beautiful and original works of art in London Heathrow's new Terminal 5. Most of them already owned or recently commissioned by British Airways. All of them - tucked away in the premium lounges for only the small percentage of privileged customers who get to travel at ...

A quickie to let you know that my MIX08 session has a time, date and place. The full Facebook event is here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=9215037357 - do go join up. It's always slightly encouraging, not to say scary, to see people who actually might turn up! Or for you FB resisters: March 6th, 4.15pm, Delfino 4005, The Venetian ...

So, blog-writing... dangerous thing. You can reveal things you never thought anyone would read ever... lesson-learned: People read your blogs! Shocking, but apparently true according to Thomas and Mike at The Signal. These guys spend their time reading, chatting, getting shouted at by their boss. Much like my life actually, but I don't have the ...

Richard Wand just sent this lovely site around - Make a Mixa. It's where you can create and buy your very own "1GB Flash USB drive housed inside a cassette tape shell." I love the tagline: "undigital your digital". Our nostalgic, rose-tinted focus has finally fallen on the humble cassette tape - that ...