Leo Work stuff

In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with Giles Colborne, designer, author, and managing director of cxpartners. We talk about how AI is reinventing design and the roles of designers; the balance of creating something that is different but familiar; and how, at its most basic level, AI is shortcutting user input.

Giles Colborne on How AI is Reinventing Design

Design improves in proportion with how accurately users’ true feelings are understood.  However, are user experience practitioners doing enough to look outside their own field to evolve new research techniques?  We spoke with Aaron Garner of the Emotional Intelligence Academy about the methods he uses to understand microexpressions – fine nuances which are often more reflective of users’ real reaction to a product, before they are quickly hidden in the interests of social etiquette.  Aaron’s current work is in areas such as security and human resources, but a conversation with podcast hosts Marek Pawlowski and Alex Guest reveals valuable cross-industry lessons which could be applied to digital experience design.

You can find detailed show notes, with links to everything mentioned, at http://www.mobileuserexperience.com/?p=3973.

Don't forget the MEX/16 conference at http://pmn.co.uk/mex/.

Email designtalk@mobileuserexperience.com.

Design Talk

Micro expressions in user research; Aaron Garner, Emotional Intelligence Academy

This week we're featuring a conversation from earlier this year—O'Reilly's Mary Treseler chats with Giles Colborne, managing director of cxpartners. They talk about the transformative effects of AI on design, designing for natural language interactions, and why designers need to nurture the ability to reinvent themselves.

Giles Colborne on AI's Move From Academic Curiosity to Mainstream Tech

The broadening of UX: Our UX Researcher, Jen Ignacz, and the founder of MEX, Marek Pawlaoski, discuss the expanding diversity of UX.

The Broadening of UX: Interview with Marek Pawlowski

The UIE Podcast

More Human than Human?: Designing a Conversational UI

Jason DaPonte has been at the cutting edge of digital experience design since the late 90s and shares some of the insights gained along the way with MEX founder Marek Pawlowski. They talk about Jason's current strategy role at design agency ustwo, as well as revisiting the evolution of multi-touchpoint experience design. The conversation expands to anecdotes from working on the earliest versions of the Washington Post's web-site to Jason's time at BBC Mobile and running his own agency business.

Get in touch with feedback and questions @mexfeed on Twitter or email designtalk@mobileuserexperience.com.

Show notes with links to everything discussed:

https://www.mobileuserexperience.com/category/podcast/

Contact:

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Multi-touchpoint revisited; Jason DaPonte, Strategy Principal, ustwo

Interviews with UX pioneers, hosted by Marek Pawlowski, the founder of MEX. Each episode features a guest talking to Marek about their career story, design interests and their hopes for how technology will shape the future. Part of the MEX initiative for enhancing digital user experience.

Micro expressions in user research; Aaron Garner, Emotional Intelligence Academy

MEX: Design Talk

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