Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Category Devices
Book: Designing the Mobile User Experience
No more SMS from Jesus: ubicomp, religion and techno-spiritual practices
In a reflective and insightful paper, Dr. Genevieve Bell, a highly respected anthropologist and director of user experience at Intel, analyses the use of technology to support religious practices. Bell argues that “the ways in which new technologies are delivering…
UTUM: building the best smartphone experience [SymbianOne]
Portable content not connecting with consumers [Reuters]
European vs. American mobile phone use
MEDX: Microsoft’s Mobile and Embedded Devices Experience design center [Seattle Post Intelligencer]
BBC Wap use flourishing in Africa
Africa, in particular Nigeria, is dominating international mobile phone access to the BBC’s website. According to July’s statistics, 61% of the BBC’s international Wap users came from Nigeria and 19% from South Africa. Africa is the world’s largest-growing mobile phone…
Vodafone online magazine on social networking the mobile way
Mobile internet is still a turn-off [The Register]
Cellphones top Iraqi cool list [The New York Times]
“Cellphones have long been considered status symbols in developing countries, Iraq included. But in an environment [like Iraq] where hanging out is potentially life threatening, cellphones are also a window into dreams and terrors, the macabre local sense of humor…
Swisscom study on how we use communication means [Business Week]
Searching for a mobile interface [BBC]
Poverty-stricken Rwanda puts its faith and future into the wide wired world [The Guardian]
Rwanda’s Vision 2020 project aims to rapidly transform a depressed agricultural economy into one driven by information communications and technology (ICT). If it works, the percentage of Rwanda’s workforce involved in farming will drop from 90% to 50% in 15…