Pathway #6: Thinking outside the slate
CategoryJohn’s Phone: does one thing well
There’s a growing buzz in the blogs (e.g. Boing Boing, Trendhunter and PSFK) about the John’s Phone, an ultra-simple no-contract handset that was released by Dutch creative agency John Doe. According to their early press releases, it was original…
Physical enhancements to mobile devices
The design blog Core77 recently featured the Glif, the versatile kickstand and tripod mount for the iPhone 4. A couple of New York product designers (Tom Gerhardt and Dan Provost) came up with the idea and developed it in their spare time, ev…
Meet the speakers: Mark Muenchinger, Product Designer, Deutsche Telekom
Mark will be contributing to Pathway #6 at the next MEX, where the challenge is to: ‘Inspire new form factors and counter the trend towards ubiquity of the slate‘.
We asked him to the introduce himself and here’s what he said: “I have been fort…
Shape-shifting mobile handsets
Giles Colborne, MEX alumnus and Managing Director of CX Partners, sent this link to a fascinating TED Talk on shape-shifting mobile handsets.
In this 4 minute video, PhD student Fabian Hemmert shows 3 prototype ways in which mobile phones may b…
MEX Pathway #6: Inspire new form factors and counter the trend towards ubiquity of the slate
- How can we derive inspiration for new form factors from improved understanding of lifestyles, materials, other industries and the natural world?
- Will the form factors and interaction mecha…
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Motorola’s Charm-ing form factor experiment
Motorola’s Charm is one of the more unusual form factors we’ve seen recently, countering the strong trend towards generic touchscreen slates. It combines a QWERTY keyboard, a square overall shape, touchscreen and a rear-mounted touchpad. This Ph…
Hands-on and low-fi with the mobile user experience
This article by Marek Pawlowski, founder of MEX, describes a low tech, experimental workshop technique used at a recent MEX Conference to get people thinking about the fundamentals of user experience.
A few months ago here at MEX we started to …
Pressing all the right buttons
This article by Marek Pawlowski, founder of MEX, asks whether there is still a place for physical buttons and controls as more manufacturers follow the path towards generic, touch-based slates where the interaction layer is abstracted into softwar…