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20 Years of Alloy
20 Years of Alloy

Celebrating our 20 years of design effectiveness as a product design consultancy

Will IoT in the office change tea making attitudes?
Will IoT in the office change tea making attitudes?

A look at current UX trends and how the ‘Internet of Things’ could change attitudes in the office.

Freeplay - Competition Winners
Freeplay - Competition Winners

Congratulations to Freeplay our Christmas ‘Giving Back’ £10,000 design time competition winners.

A look back in time - 2011 - The Future of Technology
A look back in time - 2011 - The Future of Technology

Taking a look back to our past predictions in 2010 of some of the current technology we might be seeing today

Prototyping an Experience
Prototyping an Experience

We take a look at the internet of things and how it can help in improving almost any existing service or product.

The Importance of UX in Live Broadcasting
The Importance of UX in Live Broadcasting

We have taken a look back to a topic we talked about in 2015, but yet still relevant in our work today…

 

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Come and see Alloy’s UX coordination work for AVID at IBC this weekend! Over the past few years we have been very proud to help AVID refresh the UX of its core product suite of Media Central Cloud UX, Media Composer and Link. All three products will be side by side on the AVID stand at IBC. We are very happy to let Avid CEO Jeff Rosica sum up our contribution: “Did it for us back when I was at Grass Valley with Edius, and more than a decade later helped us at Avid with our market-leading Media Central | Cloud UX  next generation platform and UI/UX and the reimagining of our industry-leading NLE with the redesign of the UI/UX of Media Composer 2019. Talented group of people... thanks to the Alloy team” . . . #avid #mediacomposer #UI #digital#userexperiencedesign #alloy #designstudio #productdesign #industrialdesign #designsketching #designprocess #create #graphicdesign #industrialdesignsketching #idsketching #designservice #designconsultancy #form #function #design #designlife #designs #designexperience #innovation #industrialdesigner #productdesigner #designdevelopment #productdevelopment #id #designer
Alloy re-designed the UI/UX for AVID's new Media Composer 2019. A few kind words from a happy client is worth 10000 words of PR copy from us. So we are very happy to let Avid CEO Jeff Rosica sum up our contribution to the project: “Did it for us back when I was at Grass Valley with Edius, and more than a decade later helped us at Avid with our market-leading MediaCentral | Cloud UX next generation platform and UI/UX and the reimagining of our industry-leading NLE with the redesign of the UI/UX of Media Composer 2019. Talented group of people... thanks Gus and team" . . . #avid #mediacomposer #UI #digital#userexperiencedesign #alloy #designstudio #productdesign #industrialdesign #designsketching #designprocess #create #graphicdesign #industrialdesignsketching #idsketching #designservice #designconsultancy #form #function #design #designlife #designs #designexperience #innovation #industrialdesigner #productdesigner #designdevelopment #productdevelopment #id #designer
20 #Alloy20: When entrenched norms drive bad briefs, we challenge the status quo. In 2006, our Polygon concept called for twin touchscreens in mobile user experience, this was before iPhones and flexible screens existed. Now Smart Homes need a rethink… #design #industrialdesign #innovation #branding #userexperiencedesign
19 #Alloy20: Vision Engineering’s Lynx is a typical complex device for specialist users. Success called for great user-research skills and teamwork with skilled engineering colleagues. We delivered on both #design #industrialdesign #innovation #branding #userexperience
18 #Alloy20: The stigma of wearing hearing-aids causes people to adopt them 10 years too late. Our RNID ‘Hearware’ concept shows how a desirable, multi-function audio earpiece could overcome this. #design #industrialdesign #innovation #branding #userexperience #hearingaids @actiononhearingloss
017 #Alloy20: Our strategic design outsourcing relationship with gaming accessory brand Gioteck is a great benchmark for start-ups: full service design across a range of devices under a common design direction #design #industrialdesign #innovation #branding #startups
016 #Alloy20: After Brexit’s £ devaluation we redesigned BT’s cordless range in record time to reduce buy-in costs without losing perceived value. Fewer parts and material quantities helped the planet too. #design #industrialdesign #innovation #branding #userexperience
015 #Alloy20: In IoT, systems deliver the experience. We designed BT’s Whole Home device, app and packaging side by side in the same studio. The seamless experience won awards and outsells Google in the UK. #design #industrialdesign #innovation #userexperience #UX
14 #Alloy20: Our journey mapping identified big benefits if we could make BT Hub5 fit through letterboxes, so we made it happen. BT saved millions, reduced CO2 emissions by 13,147 tonnes per year and won 3 design effectiveness awards! #industrialdesign #sustainability #GrandPrix #design #innovation #branding #servicedesign
13 #Alloy20: Great inclusive design doesn’t happen more often because it’s hard to achieve deep creative empathy between older users and young designers. In our team culture, rich inclusivity is the norm. #design #industrialdesign #innovation #branding #userexperience #inclusivedesign