Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Category Mobility
uni.me, a new mobile communication service centred on people’s availability
What if a mobile phone could provide easily glanceable information of people’s availability? To answer that question, Ana Camila Pinho Amorim developed uni.me, a new mobile communication service and Ana’s graduation project at Interaction Design Institute Ivrea. uni.me supports us…
Mobile user interfaces – it’s time for a new paradigm
Social networking goes mobile [Business Week]
At museums: invasion of the podcasts [New York Times]
“Experience design is about the way a person experiences a brand”
When street ads give you a ring [International Herald Tribune]
Where’s the phone? A Nokia study of mobile phone location in public spaces
Mobile computing in high-end retail
As mobile computing becomes increasingly popular in the fashion retail industry, challenges emerge pertaining to usability, system tailoring, and enhancing the manager-client user experience. These issues were addressed at LA Promotion (a facility where selected clients can acquire products three…
Mobile Essentials: Nokia field study and concepting
Nokia Sensor: from research to product
Adam Greensfield on the unique challenges of designing for ubiquitous computing
Philips/Visa usability study shows consumers like contactless payment technology (NFC)
Nokia online magazine on music and mobility
Mediamatic publishes comprehensive reader on RFID
Mediamatic, the Amsterdam cultural institution, has published a comprehensive reader on Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), as a preparation for their upcoming workshop on The Internet of Things (9-11 May – speakers include Régine Debatty and Malcolm McCullough). “Radio frequency identification…
Book: Mobile Interaction Design
Disney offers teen-tracker mobile [BBC]
Smart Cities 2020 [Metropolis Magazine]
Wi-fi set to re-wire social rules [BBC]
Once the net becomes ubiquitous like power and water, it had the potential to be “transformative”. The divide that separates people from their online lives will utterly disappear. Instead of leaving behind all those net-based friends and activities when you…
The importance of context in assessing the user experience of mobile devices
In her blog gotomobile design ethnographer Kelly Goto reflects extensively on the importance of context assessment and the challenges of usability testing when assessing the user experience of mobile devices, as opposed to other electronic devices. “Surrounding the entire mobile…