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Mobile Design UK user group = mobiledesign.org.uk

Friday, October 31st, 2008

Bryan Rieger started a Mobile Design user group for the UK: mobiledesign.org.uk:
“Over the past year or so I’ve had the pleasure of meeting many individuals who for whatever reasons now find themselves tasked with designing all manner of things for a wide assortment of devices. Many of us come from backgrounds in print, multimedia or [...]

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www.somebodyelsesphone.com by Nokia

Sunday, October 19th, 2008

Nokia has another great marketing piece called:
www.somebodyelsesphone.com
It depicts, 3 typical consumers of Nokia devices and their daily usage of their devices. It has 3 profiles, from various regions:
  • Jade (APAC)
  • Anna (Europe)
  • Luca (South America?)
Check it out when you get a chance.
P.S.
“Shout out” to Charged Magazine for letting me know about [...]

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Adobe Mobile and Device events at MAX 2008 (San Francisco)

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

I’m just back from Flash on the Beach 2008 (Brighton), and now Adobe MAX 2008 is not far away (November 16-19, actually).
In addition to the numerous mobile and device sessions this year at Adobe MAX 2008, there are several exciting (free) social events related to Mobile and Devices that you may be interested in attending:
MOBILE [...]

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Mobile vision pieces from NTT DoCoMo (Japan)

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

A while back, I posted about Nokia’s vision piece on the “Evolution of Screens” …

Now here are some videos from NTT DoCoMo on possible mobile concepts in 201x.
“The Road to Hokusai’s Waterfall”

“Mobile phones have evolved to become indispensable tools that have changed the way we lead our lives, and they are certain to continue [...]

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Adobe Keynote video from Shantanu Narayen at CTIA Wireless (Sept 2008)

Thursday, September 18th, 2008

Bill Perry (Adobe Mobile & Devices) posted some clips of Shantanu’s keynote from CTIA that happened earlier this September.
The presentation is awesome, and gives a pretty clear and concise message about how Adobe views the next generation of Mobile.
Here are videos, and thanks to Bill Perry for taking the time to shoot, edit, and [...]

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Yahoo! Design Stencil Kit: Generic Mobile Design Assets for Wireframing and Paper Prototyping

Friday, August 8th, 2008

Mobile Web Design
Via Mariam, she came across an article that discusses designing websites for mobile devices.
It includes some talk about usability guidelines on mobile and offers code examples to explore.
Mobile Stencil Awesome-ness
There is also a download to a Yahoo Mobile Stencil collection for wire framing and paper prototyping applications:
Download:
Yahoo! Design Stencil Kit version [...]

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Mobile Design Wiki from littlespringsdesign

Friday, May 30th, 2008

Here’s an evolving Mobile Design Wiki:
“Mobile UI design resources, patterns, devices, and so forth.
Mobile design resources are provided free by the leader in mobile user experience consulting, Little Springs Design.
Designing mobile user interfaces grows ever more interesting. Device and network capabilities are improving, platforms are giving us more features to help the user, [...]

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Attending CTIA Wireless and Forum Nokia Developer Days next week

Friday, March 28th, 2008

On Sunday, I am leaving to attend Forum Nokia Developer Days and a bit of CTIA Wireless in Las Vegas.
Should be a fun time, especially since I missed out on Mobile World Congress.
Anyways, I hope to see a few familiar faces there (as well as new ones).
For those unable to attend … I [...]

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Top 10 Mobile Usability Guidelines for Games and Enterprise Applications

Monday, February 25th, 2008

Alessandro posted a couple useful links to top 10 Usability Guidelines he came across on Forum Nokia.
Here are the direct links:
  • Top 10 Usability Guidelines for Enterprise Applications
  • Top 10 Usability Guidelines for Games
These are worth giving a look over.

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