Marek Pawlowski write about one of the topics at this year’s MEX conference: fashion.
“It may be limited to the high-end of the mobile market, but Vertu is a great example of two very important techniques which are applicable at all levels: total experience planning and customer involvement. The Vertu experience extends across the hardware, software, [...]
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Posted 29 April 2008
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Some interesting discussion about mobile UX at Over the Air, via Brian Fling’s resurrected Mobile Design blog.
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Link: Over The Air: User Exerience Discussion – Part 1
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Conference about the mobile web being held in London this June.
Link: Mobile Web 2.0 Summit (mobilewebsummit.com, via)
MEX is hosting a design competition of sorts – encouraging people to showcase design ideas (or new products) for mobile. Here are some of them.
The Blind Phone concept seems to a bit of a dexterity obstacle course – I’m not sure how you could dial with a pinky finger and keep a decent grip [...]
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Posted 24 April 2008
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“The MobileHCI series provides a forum for academics and practitioners to discuss the challenges and potential solutions for effective interaction with mobile systems and services. It covers the design, evaluation and application of techniques and approaches for all mobile and wearable computing devices and services.”
Link: MobileHCI 2008 (telin.nl)
Video from the Innovationsforum Interaktionsdesign conference in Germany.
Bruce Sterling from Innovationsforum on Vimeo.
Link: Bruce Sterling (vimeo.com, via)
Marek Pawlowski spoke with JD Moore about mobiles and developing countries for the upcoming MEX conference. Watch the 20 minute video below.
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JD Moore talks to Marek Pawlowski about mobile user experience in developing markets
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Posted 24 March 2008
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Barbara Ballard has announced her plans to host a conference dedicated to mobile design in September this year.
“Design For Mobile will be the first North American mobile user experience conference. This will be a two-day conference focused on strategy and tactics for user research, product definition, interaction and other design, and usability testing. A day [...]
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Posted 07 March 2008
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The fantastic IxDA Interaction 08 conference is barely a day over and videos of the presentations are already bubbling up online. Morten Hjerde spoke about design for everything that’s not an iPhone. And for those who are interested, my talk about how we can bring ethical evaluation into everyday design practice is also available.
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Marek Pawlowski of the MEX conference has published a ten point manifesto for next years’ meeting:
1. Content itself will be the interface of the future
2. Handsets are no longer just for the hand
3. Fragmentation is the enemy of innovation
4. Fashion is a stronger motivator than functionality
5. The developing world is the new frontier for mobile [...]
“MobileActive07 convenes people from all over the world using mobile phones in their social change work. Participants include nonprofit practitioners using phones in their organizations in innovative and creative ways, mobile technologists, researchers studying the use of mobile phones, artists and activists. Participants explore how mobiles are used in advocacy, education, health, and democratic [...]
There’s an interesting collection of research papers about the use of mobile phones in Asia from a conference held in Beijing two years ago. Papers include ‘Mobile Cultures of Migrant Workers in Southern China’, ‘How the University Students in East Asia Utilize Mobile Phones’, and ‘News circulation by means of mobile phones in China’.
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A video of a talk from the New Yorker’s “Stories from the near future” conference, talking about some of the things Nokia Design is thinking about at the moment.
“Younghee Jung leads a multidisciplinary research team at Nokia called “Insight and Innovation.” She talks about what to expect next from your mobile phone, the newest ideas [...]
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Posted 27 May 2007
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Published by Gabriel White.