What happens when the big screen speaks to the little screen?
Honda’s new advertising campaign for the Jazz vehicle enables iPhone users to ‘grab’ characters from the TV screen by swiping their device through the air. It provides an interesting example of how the illusion of communication can be created…
Nokia Beta Labs trials new ‘Bubbles’ UI concept
The application displays missed calls, new messages and a range of other functions as bubbles floating on the unlock screen. To jump directly into the relevant action, the user drags the bubble onto the unlock symbol. Other bubbles include t…
Reviewing the N8 and the future of Nokia’s UX
In February 2010, Rafe Blandford of All About Symbian conducted a remarkable interview with Anssi Vanjoki, then Executive Vice President of Markets at Nokia. Vanjoki, the man in charge of its consumer smartphone products, had agreed to answer ques…
MEX, 4th – 5th May 2011, London
MEX is 2 days where the brightest minds in mobile, media & design create a collective response to 6 future mobile user experience pathways
6 reasons to participate- Join the industry’s deepest thinkers in creating new ide…
Webinar on understanding young customers
The Digital Communications Knowledge Transfer Network (DCKTN) is hosting a webinar by Julia Shalet about understanding younger customers and their relationship with digital products.
It runs at 10:30 on Thursday, 27th January and you can regist…
3D, fashion and the flat screen paradox
One of the insights already resulting from the MEX community’s work on Pathway #4 (‘Identify ways 3D can enrich the user experience with visual depth‘) is that the flat displays typically found on mobile devices are often a counter-intuitive way t…
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…
Projection + augmented reality opportunities in fashion
Fubiz just featured this fun short, in which a group of girls virtually “try on” dresses found on Google Images by projecting them onto each other. The video was made by Wieden + Kennedy Tokyo for a Google ad campaign.
For me, the video captur…