MEDX: Microsoft’s Mobile and Embedded Devices Experience design center [Seattle Post Intelligencer]
Microsoft’s User Experience design team, working within the company’s Mobile and Embedded Devices division, spends part of its time generating new hardware concepts for mobile phones and other devices, not limiting itself to Microsoft’s customary focus on software.
It also studies user behavior and works on design from the outset of product development — not as a procedural afterthought.
The mobile division’s User Experience Team is made up of 23 people in Redmond and five in Beijing. It includes various types of designers, strategists, ergonomists, ethnographers, sound engineers, artists and usability experts, among others.
Apart from hardware concepts, the team is working on future versions of the Windows Mobile software. That includes not only the next release, but those farther out. About 80 percent of the team’s work is on projects that will be on the market in three to five years.
The group moved this summer into an unusual space, dubbed the Mobile and Embedded Devices Experience design center, or MEDX.
[…] Il gruppo di ricerca su User Experience Design nella divisione Mobile and Embedded devices di Microsoft lavora per generare nuovi concepts di hardware per telefoni cellulari. Il gruppo sta inoltre lavorando sulle future versioni del software Windows Mobile. […]
[…] Byron Acohido writes in USA Today about an unusual research lab on the Microsoft campus, dubbed the Mobile and Embedded Devices Experience design center, or MEDX [see also this earlier PPF story]. […]
[…] Byron Acohido scrive su USA Today dell’inusuale laboratorio di ricerca del campus di Microsoft, che ha raddoppiato il centro di design Mobile and Embedded Devices Experience, o MEDX [consulta anche questa precedente storia su PPF]. […]