A nice little vignette.
“In recent years, the challenge in designing interfaces for mobile devices has shifted from finding ways around technological limitations to finding ways around technological overload. Consequently, more so today than ever before, it is important for designers and handset manufacturers to place more effort into first identifying the core purpose of any new product and then building everything else around it.
“With everything from mobiles to portable game consoles becoming one blurred mess, it may be time to take a leaf from Apple�s iPod and design new products with strong, identifiable characters and purposes. It may be time to give new products their souls back.
Link: Back to basics: searching for the soul of modern mobile devices (mobileinnovation.co.uk)
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