MEX Sessions: Ivo Weevers on multi-touchpoint design
Ivo Weevers participated at MEX in September 2012, talking about the challenges of multi-touchpoint design strategy and sharing his lessons from building Ubuntu’s experience across phone, tablet and PC.
30 MEX Sessions in 30 days
The next MEX is in London on 26th – 27th March. As we countdown to the event, we’re sharing a new MEX Session video every weekday for the next 30 days.
Each video will be made available at 08:00 London time here at mobileuserexperience.com…
Mobile user experience tales of 2012
Are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin.
Strip away the hype and the last twelve months in mobile is a simple tale: bigger screens and faster processors.
It was a year in which ‘new’ products were characterised by incremental improveme…
Confining your core to a department
Creativity and innovation are something you can’t flowchart out. Some things you can, and we do, and we’re very disciplined in those areas. But creativity isn’t one of those. A lot of companies have innovation departments, and this is always a sig…
Experiencing advertising on an iPhone in 2012
I opened a Reuters article in Reeder, the RSS browser I use on my iPhone, and found an animated invitation to ‘Swipe up’. Curiosity got the better of me and, even though I managed to locate the subtle ‘X’ mark to close it, I decided to swipe and …
Start-up culture and/or customer focus
You know something smells of ‘bubble’ when someone tells you, without a hint of irony, “I work for a 10 year old mobile start-up.”
‘Start-up culture’ is everywhere in London at the moment. One of its by-products is office space specifically ta…
Place to entity to individual
Unusually for the UK, this builders’ van advertises the names and individual mobile numbers of the 3 tradesmen who comprise the company, in addition to the standard expectations of company name, skills, location and fixed line telephone number…
Multi-tasking is illusory
There is a billboard covering a building outside London’s Kings Cross Station. It proclaims: “Multi window: do two things at once.”
The product is the Samsung Galaxy Note II LTE. The feature it describes is the ability, in certain apps, t…