Here’s what us folks at RMA have been reading and chatting about in the office this week... 1) Fontreach What’s this all about? Perfect for those obsessed with fonts - a site that scans millions of popular sites to show the most used fonts. What does RMA say? “Reads like a font-face...
Category: Design
RMA’s Head of Experience Design to judge UK Digital Experience Awards
Design, Experience, Innovation, News, UX
We’re pleased to have our Head of Experience Design, Mischa Weiss-Lijn sit on this year’s UK Digital Experience Awards., which take place later on this year. Now in its 3rd year running, The UK Digital Experience Awards were created to celebrate and reward excellence in customer experience across the Digital...
What RMA saw this week… iPhone gestures, hot reloading & Lego for the soul
Design, Development/Tech, Interaction Design, News, UX1) One of the new iPhone 6S features could be more advanced than we thought by BusinessInsider What’s this all about? An article all about the new iPhone’s ability to to detect three levels of tap pressure.. What does RMA say? "A new dimension of gestures is pretty exciting!" Rory...
What RMA saw this week… design tools & lessons, a moody app & lightning
Design, Interaction Design, News, Presentation, Visualisation1) 7 UX design tools for an effective Scrum workflow by UNITiD What’s this all about? The guys at UNITiD interaction designers have written about running more and more projects using the Agile Scrum method. Turns out their largest projects are almost all now conducted in multidisciplinary Scrum teams. What does RMA...
What RMA saw this week… homemade computers, robots taking over & a sketch bank
Design, Interaction Design, News, Opinion, Physical Computing, Presentation, VisualisationHere’s what us folks at RMA have been reading and chatting about in the office this week... 1) CodeDoodle.es What’s this all about? A rather lovely site packed full of curated creative coding sketches. Well worth a look in. What does RMA say? “How much do I love this site!”...
What RMA saw this week… Romain Laurent, 4 year old wisdom, another nice dataviz and some seeds
Design, Interaction Design, News, Opinion, VisualisationHere’s what us folks at RMA have been reading and chatting about in the office this week... 1) A Reduce Speed Dial by Volkswagen What’s this all about? A short video from Volkswagen which explores whether a child's drawing can make a parent a safer driver. Quite moving and a...
What RMA saw this week… Post-its galore, Google’s latest shopping spree & some machine learning stuff
Design, News, Opinion, VisualisationHere’s what the folks at RMA have been reading and chatting about in the office this week... 1) A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning by R2D3 What’s this all about? A neat dataviz that explains how computers apply statistical learning techniques to automatically identify patterns in data. What does RMA...
How to increase your user base: Make your product less engaging
Design, Development/Tech, Experience, Interaction Design, UXIn my previous post What’s wrong with wearable tech? I touched on how technology must be unobtrusive in order to integrate seamlessly in to people’s lives. Now I'm looking at the emerging trend of 'Slippy' UX. The phrase was first coined by Jake Zukowski,who explored how the design of automobile...
Speaking about data visualisation at HCID’s “Design at Work” Open Day
Design, Presentation, VisualisationBetter decisions, by design - data visualisation for decision support I was recently invited by the Centre for Human-Computer Interaction Design(HCID) to speak at their May Open Day - a day where a mix of 350 or so UX professionals, academics and students gather to hear...
Trading Platforms: Where Next?
Design, Experience, Innovation, Interaction Design, UX, VisualisationA comparison of trading software and trading platforms in the investment banking arena