Category Devices
Jan Chipchase of Nokia on the challenges of human-centred design
Kitchen Budapest, Magyar Telekom’s innovation lab
Magyar Telekom‘s new media lab Kitchen Budapest (KiBu), opened in June 2007, is a new media lab for young researchers who are interested in the convergence of mobile communication, online communities and urban space and are passionate about creating experimental…
Nokia design director on emerging markets
Antti Kujala, a design director at Nokia’s headquarters in Espoo, Finland, spearheaded Nokia’s strategy and design development. He spoke to Nandini Lakshman of Business Week in New Delhi about the nuances of designing for emerging markets and about future mobile…
Five new experience design-related interviews by Adaptive Path
What’s new in participatory design with Liz SandersLiz Sanders (UX Week conference page) is the president of MakeTools, a design research company that focuses on collaborative creativity about the participatory process and it’s impact on design. Liz has worked across…
Breaking down the walls of phones’ web gardens
What’s good for a business can be hard on friends
Mobile providers claim to support social networks, but then actually hinder them in practice, as shown in this example from the US market (reported in The New York Times). In the US, T-Mobile is the exception with MyFaves allowing to…
Central role for co-creation and ethnography at new Nokia design studio in Bangalore
Nokia’s new design studio in Bangalore, India, will use co-creation and ethnographic approaches to explore new design ideas for mobile phones targeted at the Indian market. InfoWorld reports: The studio in India is one of four satellite studios that Nokia…
Nokia Trends Lab
Firms snub ‘mobile for elderly’
Nokia’s view of the future – trends research, ethnography and design
Timo Veikkola, senior future specialist at Nokia, has just written an article for usability magazine uiGarden to expand on his vision of our future – already alluded to during his presentation at the PSFK conference just a few weeks ago.…