Augmented storytelling

15 years ago

I'm delighted to introduce a guest article by James Whatley, exploring how mobile technology enables new forms of storytelling and…

Hockney, iPad and creative expression

15 years ago

The Royal Academy in London has an exhibition of works by David Hockney, including a collection of pictures created with…

Notes from Mobile World Congress 2012

15 years ago

Measures of technical prowess dominated Mobile World Congress. The event's vocabulary was characterised by quad core 1.5 Ghz processors, 41…

Gestures in a mobile context

15 years ago

The amount of transposition required to convert users' physical actions into digital form has ebbed and flowed over the years.…

Searching for new UI metaphors

15 years ago

There were few visual interface developments which stood out at Mobile World Congress, not least because the small application developers…

Mobile creativity unleashed

15 years ago

Nokia's PureView 808 in red polycarbonate is a stunningly bold visual statement. The intensity of the colour combines with a…

Prioritising relative speed

15 years ago

YOUi Labs' CEO Jason Flick was clear about his priority when we met at Mobile World Congress: speed. His company…

Sound experiences outside the visual canvas

15 years ago

The brain has a remarkable ability to perceive the location of a sound source. If an object bangs on the…

Maps appropriate to context

15 years ago

The digital maps found on today's mobile devices derive from cartographic techniques hundreds of years old. User context, however, has…

Refining through multi-layered user research

15 years ago

Emporia's approach to user-centred design is multi-layered. Albert Fellner, founder, began by providing mobile devices accessible to the elderly and…