Cool stuff.
“I wanted to try to take advantage of spatial reasoning and spatial memory to make it easier to find and navigate stuff. Let the user see the scope of information available. Start by showing the big picture. When it makes sense, let it behave more like real-world objects. You can normally pick up [...]
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Posted 06 May 2008
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Also tagged: cell, design, interactiondesign, ixd, mobile, music, nextgen, phone, player, spatial, ui, userinterface, zooming
Nokia ships 1 million new handsets every day; along with the clothing industry, the mobile phone business is the pinnacle of continuous conspicuous consumption: people buy new phones just to have something new.
Nokia has released a concept that is at least heading in the right direction here – a handset that’s made completely from recycled [...]
“Morph concept technologies might create fantastic opportunities for mobile devices: Newly-enabled flexible and transparent materials blend more seamlessly with the way we live; Devices become self-cleaning and self-preserving; Transparent electronics offering an entirely new aesthetic dimension; Built-in solar absorption might charge a device, whilst batteries become smaller, longer lasting and faster to charge; Integrated sensors [...]
Some fun mobile concepts from RCA students.
Link: In pictures: Mobile design competition (bbc.co.uk)
Nokia concept video demonstrating adaptive form factors. Also a nice example of lo-fi video concepting.
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Link: YouTube – Nokia 888 Design (youtube.com)
It irons, it toasts, it even inflates your bicycle tyres.
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Link: YouTube – Sumsing Turbo 3000 English Version (youtube.com, via)
KDDI has published some interesting conceptual meditations on the personal experiences that mobile devices leave behind (use the navigation across the bottom of the page).
Link: Things that Mobiles have forgotten to take along (kddi.com)
“A new system uses a phone’s speaker and vibrator to make a device feel and sound like it contains liquid when it is running out of power. The same technique can be used to indicate when new messages have arrived, by simulating the sense of balls rattling around inside a box.”
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It’s all about touch these days.
“A touch-sensitive gadget with the sensing panel on its back, instead of the screen, is being developed by US researchers. Using your fingers behind the device allows a firmer grip and more accurate performance without obscuring your view of the screen, they say.”
“As soon as you put your hands on [...]
The folks at Adaptive Path have put together a concept for an implanted insulin pump for diabetics and dubbed it “Charmr”. It’s a nice concept piece that showcases the process and design thinking that went into the idea. (Though I hope Web 2.0 nomenclature for physical products isn’t a sign of things to come).
Link: Charmr [...]
The winner of Yahoo Hack Day London 2007 was an RFID-based system that helped make the transition between desktop and mobile computing much easier. A nice and simple concept piece from the NYT Labs. Video embedded below for those on the RSS.
Link: SHIFD.COM (nytlabs.com)
Mobiface has published a time-based mobile UI concept. As a concept it’s an interesting and pretty compelling piece.
Link: Timeline UI (mobiface.com)
A couple of videos demonstrating new user interface design concepts from Nokia.
Link: Video 1 and Video 2 (youtube.com, via)
Published by Gabriel White.