I’ll talk about what interests me at the drop of the proverbial, and luckily at work I get the opportunity, as we often have ‘Breakfast Epiphanies’ – an agency-wide get together to discuss projects, influences, and the New!

The latest subject was UX, and I was asked to contribute. Given my recent experience on the InkHack day, I wanted to disrupt the ‘digital’ definition of UX and move it into the Physical.

So there were slides like this:

With that out of the way, it was all about shifting User Experience into the real world. So there were examples of bad UX , for instance, taps that need explanation; a pet hate that I spent too long documenting a few years ago. This led nicely into Physical UX experience and how agencys and individuals are hacking these to create their own.

This obviously led to my own experiences on InkHack…

And from there into forays into Experience triggered via Capacitive Sensing. Below is a example of some of the Electric Paint interfaces I created for talk on circuits at my son’s school.

The Audience Participation round!

All too aware that these talks can become stale, I wanted to allow people to create their own UX interface, inspired by the Smooch Booth.

A photo was taken whenever a circuit was completed – this invited some creative solutions!

Below are some of the images captured on the day.

* Capacitive sensing using an Arduino Uno, Electric Paint and a TouchKey USB shield (£18 eBay). WebCam capture via Processing, and jpegs posted to Tumblr via Python and Temboo. 🙂