Urban UX

Designing for Intimacy in A Tech Based Society

By Marco van Beers on October 23, 2012

Two and a half years ago I met Koen. His wife just died of breast cancer after a long struggle against the disease. When we talked, we had[...]

By Jeroen van Geel on April 11, 2012

Last week Google announced their image of the future: Project Glass. This announcement shows us a lot about the current position of the[...]

By Vicky Teinaki on February 1, 2012

Yelp co-founder and the father of RSS David Galbraith was formerly trained as an architect, and so decided to see if he could combine his[...]

By Mac Funamizu on January 12, 2012

Remember how hard it was to make just one pie graph embedded in your document? Because machines were not as smart as they are today, we[...]

By Vicky Teinaki on December 28, 2011

This post by John Tolva is heralded as “critical reading if you have any interest whatsoever in networked cities and[...]

By Fabian Hemmert on October 10, 2011

Looking at new ways to make technology more human.

By Martin Polley on October 3, 2011

A nice one for anyone interested in urbanism. Via Vicky Teinaki. Duration: just under an hour

By Laura Keller on July 25, 2011

Interaction and experience designers are often only afforded a very focused, tactical design problem to solve, but the real impact [...]

By Martin Polley on July 16, 2011

Here’s a beautifully crafted video from Urbanscale and Nordkapp, which shows how the many urban screens dotted around Helsinki could[...]

By Martin Polley on June 23, 2011

Matt Jones and Jack Schulze (BERG), talking about the often intangible materials that we as interaction designers work with. (From [...]