Meet the speakers: JD Moore, Nokia
In December 2007 JD Moore took time out from his day job as a user interface designer for Nokia to visit Kenya and further his passion for contexual user design and its role in developing markets. He ran a series of workshops with Kenyan children…
Email complexity and next generation middleware
This morning I have been watching the battery life of my Nokia N95 drain rapidly away. It is 2pm and I have less than 40% remaining. When I unplugged the device at 7am, it was fully charged.
It is not the handful of calls I’ve made or my few …
MEX video interview with Scott Jenson of Google
Scott Jenson, who leads mobile user interface design for Google, is the first MEX 2008 speaker to feature in our new video interview series.
Jenson worked on the Apple Newton and Apple’s original mobile concept designs before going on to become…
More UX trends from MWC
This is the second and final part of my report on user experience trends at the Mobile World Congress. You can read the first section here.
Feeling the changes in user input methods
There was an interesting trend running through many of the…
The real user experience trends from MWC
The news flow from the Mobile World Congress has been particuarly strong this year, a reflection perhaps on the buoyancy of an industry which has enjoyed sustained growth for some time.
Amid the marketing blitz and pumping music of the show flo…
Connecting brand, design and user experience
Gus Desbarats, Chairman of Alloy Total Product Design, has written this article about the importance of connections between brand, design and user experience in response to our 18th January 2008 piece entitled ‘Have you had an egg moment recently?…
Gone shopping – reality check from the mobile industry’s front line
If you’re looking for a true insight into the mobile user experience of the average customer, I heartily recommend you spend a day at the shops. Find a friend who is looking to get a new phone or contract and shadow them as they go through the ex…
Without the mobile user experience
When you spend your days consulting with companies about how they can improve their mobile user experiences or highlighting the frustrations faced by end users, it is easy to forget the positive benefits mobility brings to an astonishing number of…