Pathway #1: Network efficient UX design
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Welcoming MobiWire as a MEX sponsor
I’m pleased to welcome MobiWire as our latest MEX sponsor. Jerome Nadel, Executive Vice President of User Experience at MobiWire, first participated in December 2009, when he presented ideas for maintaining the soul of a brand in a multi-plat…
McDonalds’ Minimalist Wi-Fi
The MEX blog is featuring ideas, images and videos selected by the designers at Brunel University in the build-up to the next MEX event on 4th/5th May 2011.
Each breakout team at MEX is supported by a pair of Brunel designers, who work with…
Dual SIM entering mainstream, hinting at disruptive progress
The rise of dual SIM devices has been widely reported, but predominantly with a focus on emerging economies. I see that trend expanding into additional markets.
There are several drivers for multi-SIM usage universal across all markets:
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The assumption of connectivity
Christmas in rural, Eastern Scotland was relatively uninterrupted by mobile communication thanks to the near-total lack of reception at my parents house. Perhaps today’s “one-horse town” should be called a “one-bar town”? This was not a major is…
RIM Playbook focuses on browser performance
RIM has released a video showing a side-by-side comparison of web browsing on its forthcoming Playbook, measured against the iPad. It shows the Playbook outperforming the Apple device in real world load time testing, industry benchmarks and in th…
Cross-platform push-messaging apps
The cross-platform push-messaging race is intensifying. The recent surge of Kik shows it to be a genuine threat to PingChat 2 and WhatsApp and the many other variations of the hugely popular Blackberry Messenger (BBM), which comes pre-loaded on e…
Network capacity crunch and the impact on UX
Growth in the proportion of mobile network capacity used by data services is accelerating. According to Ericsson, a crossover point occurred in December 2009, when the capacity requirements of data services exceeded voice for the first time. The…
Meet the speakers: Bryan Rieger, Partner, Yiibu
Bryan will be contributing to Pathway #1 at the next MEX, where the challenge is to: ‘Define more efficient user experience techniques for an age of network austerity‘.
His session will be a practical guide to the ways in which mobile services …