The future of instructions for use
Tailoring content around user learning styles
As individuals we all approach, interact and retain information in unique ways. Despite an almost infinite number of individual preferences over how we receive information, there are three distinct groups that can generally help categorise and identify how someone naturally processes information. Visual learners prefer to observe and look over information...
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KTN Break Through Innovation
Insights from the day
KTN Innovation Conference - 2018 We recently attended Break Through Innovation, a day-long conference hosted by KTN (Knowledge Transfer Network) Design and Innovation Effectiveness team, to learn and to share experiences with designers and entrepreneurs of how collaboration can help deliver products to market effectively. It’s increasingly understood...
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Meet the team - Ben
Finding your feet as an electronics engineer
Job Title: Graduate Electronics Engineer Degree background & University: I studied Electronic and Electrical Engineering at the University of Bath with a year in industry. My placement year was spent in an automotive electronics company; I enjoyed the challenge but found it difficult to thrive in such a large company. Upon returning...
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Prototyping Human-Machine Interfaces
Applying UX methods to product design
Prototyping is crucial to the way that we approach projects at Crux; we fail fast, learn quickly and incrementally improve a design until it looks and works beautifully. We'll prototype surface models to understand how an object looks in it's intended environment, while at the same time design rigs that allow us to understand, test and...
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Making All The Right Noises
Crux discuss simulation of device acoustics
The acoustic performance of a product can be vital. In consumer goods, the sound of a click or snap can be the difference between perceptions of high-quality and cheap. In medical devices audible feedback is often a requirement to reinforce patient actions and indicate, for example, the completion of drug delivery. Traditionally device acoustics have...
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Intern Q&A with Temi
How Crux can kick-start your career
Temi has been on placement with us for a year now, and will soon be heading back to university to finish her degree - we will be sad to see her go! Here's our Q&A with Temi, as her time with us comes to an end... What’s your background? I’m Temi, 21, from London. I studied Spanish, Physics and Maths for A-level and I’m...
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