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The Crossed Cow is The Partners blog. A collection of views, opinions and inspirations gathered from the team behind the UK's most highly awarded brand consultancy.
Category Archives: User Experience
Globe-surfing
If you’re anything like me then you’re likely to spend an inordinate amount of your life plugged into a day-dream playing inside your (cavernous) head where you’re living out an
Posted in Environment, Experience Design, Media, Resources, Uncategorized, User Experience
Tagged #traveling, countries, exploring, Globe Genie, maps, Street View
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Safer cars = more dangerous drivers and other paradoxes
If you’ve ever wondered why you can spend an aeon in a traffic jam on a motorway with no apparent cause, why we’re so intolerant of each other when we’re driving and why we think it’s ok to speed but … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Design, Environment, Experience Design, Uncategorized, User Experience
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We are here
Alongside the part of my phone that actually makes calls (the old fashioned bit), my Google Maps app is probably one of my most used. It’s become indispensable in the same way that being able to text once was. What … Continue reading
App-Attack!
If you’re anything like me then you prance around with your iPhone glued to your hand 24 hours a day, but rarely attempt to make full use of it as a device for running such things as fun/informative/handy apps. I’m … Continue reading
iPad – the future of publishing?
After years of waiting, Apple and Steve Jobs have finally announced the worst best kept secret in gadget history – the iPad. Ever since Jobs and Co. created the iPhone, there has been intense speculation that Apple were going to … Continue reading
Posted in Digital, Experience Design, Innovation, Interactive, News, Product Design, Technology, User Experience, User Interface
Tagged Digital, experience, Future, Interactive, iPad, iPhone, iPod, News, Newspapers, Publishing
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Laboratory
After the success of our make-it-yourself catalogue for last year’s Jerwood show ‘an experiment in collaboration’ (featured in the Creative Review annual, Design Week Awards runner up and winner of a Platinum award at Graphis) we were asked to make a … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Design, User Experience
Tagged 2009, Application, Art, Awards, Blog, Catalogue, Collaboration, Comment, Creative, Design, Design Week, Designers, Flash, Flickr, Jerwood, Laboratory, play, ted, Twitter, Work
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One day all computers will be like this
Hi from Multitouch Barcelona on Vimeo.
Posted in Digital, Experience Design, User Experience, User Interface
Tagged Application, Flash
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Life, Death, Passion, iPhone
Our friends at the National Gallery just released their first iPhone/iPod touch application aimed at bringing a taster of the eminence, elegance and inclusiveness of the largest collection of Western European paintings straight into the 21st century and right into your … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Digital, Interactive, Toys, User Experience, User Interface
Tagged 2009, 50p, Application, Art, brand, Branding, Flash, Free, Identity, iPhone, iPod, London, Paint, the National Gallery, The Partners, Video, Work
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plinky-plonky music
So you might have heard of and seen one of these Yamaha TENORI-ON machines (in fact Nathan blogged about Little Boot’s rendition of Hot Chip’s Ready for the floor a while back now) the new instrument that mixes musical beats … Continue reading
Posted in Interactive, Music, Technology, User Experience
Tagged 2009, Art, Blog, Creative, Design, Flash, Global, Interactive, Music, play, ted
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My WEF diary
At the end of January, I took a little trip from the (relative) warmth and comfort of my studio desk in Albion Courtyard, to the bleak wilderness of Davos, high up a mountain in the Swiss alps. A spot of … Continue reading →