Location dependent or location irrelevant?
Vodafone today announced it would launch a service in Germany providing 1000 minutes of call time for a flat-rate of EUR 20 per month. The catch? The calls must be made within the subscriber’s home zone – an area about 2 Km in diameter, centred …
CKS founder to speak at MEX
We’re pleased to announce Aditya Dev Sood, founder and CEO of CKS, will be speaking at MEX. CKS is a user research and technology design company working in emerging economies around the world. Aditya graduated summa cum laude from the University …
UN seeks action on environmentally friendly disposal of handsets
This Reuters piece highlights the UN’s work to broker an agreement on environmentally-friendly disposal of mobile handsets.
This ‘final stage’ of the user experience, i.e. disposing of the product, is becoming increasingly important as develope…
Welcome to MEX
Welcome to MEX – the PMN Mobile User Experience conference.
Hosting an event on such an ephemeral subject as ‘user experience’ presents a challenge for everyone involved. We soon realised that one of our primary objectives would be to define w…
Storyboard of natural search screenshot images
This storyboard accompanies Sarah Lipman’s special article for the MEX newsletter entitled ‘Search Patterns in Nature: Informing Computer Search Interfaces‘.
Exploring results
Making a first selection in the ‘always forward’ path
Pr…
The World Handset Forum in Review
21 November 2003 — PMN — The World Handset Forum represents something of a departure for IBC, the conference company best known for the huge industry gathering it hosts each year at the 3GSM Congress in Cannes. Instead of focusing on a large exh…
User-centred mobile design
07 April 2003 — Sofia Svanteson — Sofia Svanteson is CEO of Ocean Observations, a user-centred design consultancy. Ocean recently completed a project researching European design attitdues for Samsung and designing the GUI for a new Samsung hands…
Samsung selects Ocean for European project
13 February 2003 — PMN — Ocean Observations, a user-centred design consultancy based in Stockholm, has completed a 12 month project contributing to the design of a new Samsung handset interface. Samsung engaged Ocean to research European cultura…