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CategoryThe Lake explores role of audio in mobile user experience
The Lake from Maybe It's The Lighting on Vimeo.
The visual component of The Lake does one thing: it displays a single playing card, which the user can flip. It is through the audible dimension that most of the user’s experience is created.
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The bigger the screen, the higher the app price
Research from Distimo points to a correlation between increasing screen size and increasing the amount consumers are willing to pay for an application.
The average selling price of the top 300 applications for Mac OS devices (e.g. iMacs and…
Hack together all your devices into a single overall display
Rick Borovoy and Brian Knep at MIT’s Center for Future Civic Media have put together a public project – Junkyard Jumbotron – enabling users to combine multiple devices into a single screen.
The experimental platform allows users to spread s…
Combining TV and mobile for multi-platform advertising
The Belgium subsidiary of insurance company AXA has worked with agency Duval Guillaume to create a multi-platform advertisement for AXA’s home insurance product and accompanying iPhone application.
It will be shown on television in Belgium …
Notes on user experience from Mobile World Congress 2011
Mobile World Congress revealed an industry finally accepting influence has shifted from those making network technology to those making the experiences delivered via that technology. However, there was little evidence of new thinking about what t…
Video: Haptics turn mobile phone into virtual guitar
Immersion, a MEX alumnus and sponsor, was launching the latest version of its haptics platform at Mobile World Congress: Motiv. The new platform makes it much easier for handset manufacturers to add haptics to Android devices by pre-integrati…
Video: Cutting edge mobile user experience from Japan
The Toshiba REGZA T01 C from NTT DoCoMo has a 12.2 megapixel camera, comes in a range of coloured metallic shells and boasts a truly stunning display. It is also waterproof. A testament to Japan as the place where the boundaries of mobile de…
Expressions of sustainable experience
Today there are relatively few ways in which customers can express their preference for a sustainable life when using a mobile device. As an industry, mobile has lagged behind a wide range of others, including automotive, housing, travel, food an…