In My Experience
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Rick Monro

Rick has led and managed design teams in agencies in Ireland, provided UX consultancy for both public and private sector clients and is currently User Experience Lead with Contrast. He is also a syllabus consultant and lecturer for the Digital Marketing Institute and organiser of UX Belfast.

Vancouver 2004/2010

By Rick Monro
In Design
February 28, 2010
2 Min read

It’s been kind of odd watching the 2010 Winter Olympics. I was in Vancouver at the time that the city won the bid, back in 2004. Although on a holiday, my professional interest soon peaked when an emerging story related to the Games’ logo started to emerge. The Vancouver Olympic Committee (VANOC) launched a competition to design the Games’ logo, open to amateurs and...

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Welcome to the future

By Rick Monro
In UX
February 27, 2010
1 Min read

Remember all of those sets in sci-fi movies, anytime from the 60’s to the 90’s, and you thought “There’s no way we’ll ever live/work in buildings like that”…?
Think again. Welcome to the future..

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And then there was… iPad

By Rick Monro
In Innovation
January 30, 2010
2 Min read

I can’t offer an objective opionion of Apple’s new progeny; I’m an Apple fanboy, a design groupie and a tech non-purist. The ability of Apple to distill the technological zeitgeist of the near future into exhilarating new product is indesputible. I remember being underwhelmed by the iPod when it arrived. I had barely a handful of mp3 files on my hard drive at the time, and still...

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An evening with Libeskind

By Rick Monro
In UX
December 7, 2009
2 Min read

I was delighted recently to be able to attend an address given by none other than Daniel Libeskind in Belfast’s Waterfront Hall. The event was a University of Ulster bash, however the night belonged to the guest speaker. Coming across as slightly more unassuming (and shorter) that one might expect, Libeskind emitted passion and enthusiasm for his craft like all great practitioners. In a...

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In My Experience is the personal blog of Rick Monro, a designer & researcher in Belfast, N. Ireland

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