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User experience has moved to the forefront of most technology design, yet it remains an often-overlooked discipline. Rebecca Dean highlights what happens when UX is ignored.

Digital Shoreditch happens for the third time from 20-31 May. We’re pleased to be able to offer TCi readers a 25% discount on entry.

Buenos Aires is Latin America’s creative hub, with an emerging local tech startup culture. BA-based digital entrepreneur Daniel Stolar reports

Digital is changing storytelling, as audiences evolve ever more into users, with stories themselves part of a wider system, Paul Bennun, cofounder and chief creative officer at Somethin’ Else, argues

On 17 May, Shoreditch celebrates 100 years of electronic music, with a special event from music-art collective Noise of Art at Village Underground. How has technology changed music creation? We spoke to the event’s curator, Ben Osborne

Apps for Good, the Tech City-based charity project that matches young creatives with technology professionals, is gearing up its third annual awards for problem-solving app ideas. As CEO Iris Lapinski explains, the charity is looking for help from the tech business community.

Global accountancy business Grant Thornton was involved in February’s inaugural Innovation Forum in Los Angeles, arranged by UKTI and Founders Forum. Steve Leith, head of the firm’s early-stage technology team in Tech City, was there. He offers an insider’s view

Where is Europe’s hottest tech startup scene? London? Berlin? Paris, even? Technology journalist and head of Microsoft’s BizSpark in France, Roxanne Varza, surveys the scene

Tak Lo is the American co-founder of the Travelst, an online travel planning and organisation startup. In August he visited three of the world’s most important tech cities. He gives us his impressions of the startup scenes in New York, Berlin and London

SOMETECHFORTHEWEEKEND: Laser enthusiasts across the capital woke feeling a little cheated Friday morning, let down by the (£500million) Shard’s underpowered fanfare the previous night.
The low-fi fiasco no doubt encouraged many of Europe’s tallest building’s potential suitors to slip a numb arm from beneath expectation, dress quickly and quietly, and slip out the door without need for a chat about the anticlimax that was their first date. David Jenkinson ponders what this says about marrying tech with propaganda.