If I paid a dollar every time Horace Luke of HTC says ‘simple’ in this product launch I’d be down about $132. Hyperbole aside, it’s an interesting piece of design.
Demo of the overall experience:
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Posted 08 May 2008
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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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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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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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Sender 11 has published some stats on device screen sizes. Interesting stuff, though it’s important to note that the study doesn’t cover the user prevalence of particular screen sizes.
“Over the years the relative screen size difference has increased. The difference between the smallest (128×128) and the largest (800×480) is now a factor of 23. That [...]
InUseful published a usability report on the iPhone.
“What is it then that makes the iPhone different? Most importantly, it has removed one level of abstraction by allowing the user to act on objects using the finger directly on the phone’s surface. The difference between this and having to press keys on a keyboard and watch [...]
“The iPhone platform elegantly solves the design problem of small screens by greatly intensifying the information resolution of each displayed page. Small screens, as on traditional cell phones, show very little information per screen, which in turn leads to deep hierarchies of stacked-up thin information—too often leaving users with “Where am I?” puzzles. Better to [...]
It irons, it toasts, it even inflates your bicycle tyres.
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Link: YouTube – Sumsing Turbo 3000 English Version (youtube.com, via)
”...It’s time that we recognised that for the majority of the world’s population, and for the foreseeable future, the cell phone is the computer, and it will be the portal to the internet, and the communications tool, and the schoolbook, and the vaccination record, and the family album, and many other things, just as soon [...]
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)
TryPhone has online interactive simulations of a few handsets, hopefully with more available soon. A less expensive way to play with phones than buying a design review collection.
“Use our fully interactive online virtual handsets to test-drive mobile devices, applications, content and services, as well as watch demos – right from the comfort and convenience of [...]
A production phone /music player that looks like a concept device. Putting controls above the screen is an interesting one.
Link: Serenata (serenatamobile.com)
Published by Gabriel White.