The wellness industry significantly changed over the last decade. Indeed, the omnipresence of smartphones has allowed the development of applications that offer health-related services, in conjunction with wearable technologies and other activity-tracking products. Despite the vast availability of these personal metrics and health apps, people clearly continue to struggle to maintain a healthy lifestyle. My client, The Northern California Wellness Collective, is precisely dedicated to helping people succeed in doing so. To accomplish that, they are excited to explore how technology can be leveraged.

“AfrikaBurn is a participant-created movement, an experiment in inclusive community building, decommodification, creativity, self-reliance and radical self-expression. It is a chance to invent the world anew.” — from the official mission statement. — If you ask me, AfrikaBurn is all about artworks, costumes, performances, theme camps, music, mutant vehicles, incredible people and much more. Where? In the Northern Cape Province of South Africa, in the Tankwa Karoo desert, in Stonehenge Private Reserve. When? Yearly, at the end of April, during one full week.

I was asked to rank my 3 best and 3 worst user experiences ever with a product or a service, confront them with established design principles and conclude by writing on how design usability may affect our daily life. — At least for the duration of this exercise, I’ve decided to divert from my customary digital screens, to go back to the physical world. …