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A UX perspective on Dubai

Monday, October 26th, 2009

I have returned from a week’s vacation in Dubai visiting my sister-in-law and brother-in-law with my wife. It was a mind blowing experience seeing such a young, yet highly developed city rising out of the deserts of the United Arab Emirates. Dubai has adopted a ‘no-holds-barred’ approach to architecture where seemingly structures and buildings rise out of the sea on reclaimed land. What I found fascinating and completely different to any other city I have visited is how Dubai groups and labels alike businesses, institutions and amenities. For instance, if I were to be visiting the offices of a local or international newspaper then I would be heading for Media City where I could find them all in the same locale. We drove past Internet City which housed side-by-side no less than Microsoft, Hewlett Packard Invent, Cisco, Oracle, 3M et al. I also spotted Festival City as well as a number of other areas either named City or Village.

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Tags: dubai, User Experience, ux
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Advertising gestural interface

Monday, June 8th, 2009

Birmingham based agency Clusta have coupled together with CBS Outdoor (outdoor billboard advertising company) to produce a truly unique interface. It engages iPhone users with advertising LCD screens, allowing them to control and change the advertisement on screen via gestural interactions through WiFi or 3G connectivity on their phone.

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Tags: CBS Outdoor, Clusta, interface design, iphone
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What makes a website user friendly?

Monday, April 14th, 2008

Flash movies, subtle gradients, iconography. All just dressing up right? The small things. It is all about the small things that make a website stand out from the rest and usually it is these items that get overlooked by the web visitor, taken for granted even. Without them they would soon leave in a frustrated state never to return again. So what are these small things?

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Tags: Usability, User Experience, Web design
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