Video interviews: Mobile search requires a radically different approach in the mobile environment
At the MEX 2008 conference, we’ll be looking at the user experience of mobile search from two rather different perspectives. One view will be given by Scott Jenson, who leads mobile UI development for search giant Google. The other will be provided by Steve Ives, CEO of mobile search start-up Taptu.
Both will be […]
Design Competition Entry: Mix It Up
The design of the whole program was created according to the psychology of potential users: what outfit they would have preferred, colors that would best match the context and interface that would be user-friendly overall. The result we got is the amazing application with a very useful functionality.
As lots of people […]
Design Competition Entry: My Mobile Closet
My concept has two main components. The first is a shortcode component where users are able to send an SMS (short message service) with item number to a designated shortcode # (41411 MYMC), thereby adding said item to their mobile closet for later use. The second component is the actual programmed application where users are […]
Design Competition Entry: MoDist - a MObile DISTance tracker
The problem is that small business owners and others need to log all of their business miles for tax deductions and employees/owners frequently forget to write down any business miles. Even if a log book exists, it is frequently forgotten and trip mileage is forgotten or fabricated/ guestimated. This is especially difficult for small businesses […]
Design Competition Entry: Memory Box
Memory Box provides young people with a private space within the device, and personalized widgets to store, manage and share their memories.
Features
• Provides them with a private space within the device
• Allows them the option to password-protect the area
• Provides them with personalized widgets to store and manage
- Text messages
- Photos, audio and video
- Contact […]
Fragmentation is the enemy of innovation
This article by Marek Pawlowski, founder of MEX and Editorial Director at PMN, is intended to provoke and inspire discussion around MEX Manifesto #3, entitled ‘Fragmentation is the enemy of innovation‘ ahead of the MEX conference in London next month (27th - 28th May).
MEX brings together participants from across the value chain, including operators, handset […]
Design Competition Entry: Game Zone / Games catalog
Game Zone is a games catalog in which you can consult games reviews, prices, compatible handset models, complexity, rankings and discounts. You can also participate in quizes, consult clues and features, play a demo version and purchase.
Design Competition Entry: Ivy Lounge, Mobile directory of leisure services
We offer an addictive content that is frequently consulted by users and generates ‘virtual communities’ with common interests. You can also find monthly recommendations (what to do, where you should go and what to buy). Some of the interesting feautures of the application are interactive quizes, discount coupons, movie trailers, calendar events, a section with […]
Design Competition Entry: Wittycall, the open public phonebook
Wittycall is a “yellow pages 2.0″ created by users, a search service related to phone numbers from where on one hand users can share their most interesting phone contacts and on the other hand users perform searches for most rated, commented or used phone numbers.
The value added to the service is that users can sort […]
Design Competition Entry: Comverse Injects Fun and Color into SMS
Comverse Instant SMS is an innovative enhanced SMS messaging solution that infuses SMS with new spirit by incorporating key elements of the Internet culture into the existing SMS service, while preserving the familiar SMS user experience for legacy users.
- Colorful: SMS splashes into the era of color
- Evocative Emoticons, Personal Icons: Elements of the service […]
