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Mobile

• Design, Design in the Wild, Gadgets, Mobile, Thoughts

  Coming soon to a SkyMall catalogue near you: The Handphone

  05.16.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  This is a great example of people taking a design/idea way too far. I can’t really add much more than what WIRED posits:
  The handphone takes this madness a step further. Why have one simple, easy to use unit which can simply be held to the head when you can strap a mess of wires onto […]

• Design in the Wild, Gold Star, Interface, Mobile, Thoughts

  Design in the wild: IntelliScreen - finally, some idle screen customization for the iPhone

  05.14.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Over at ModMyiPhone there’s a post about new software called IntelliScreen that allows you to load widgets onto your iPhone’s idle screen. While I’ve made it this far without jailbreaking my phone (and I can certainly make it another month), this brings to light a need that has until now gone suspiciously unmet in my […]

• Design, Design in the Wild, Mobile

  Design in the wild: AdMob’s AdMonitor

  04.21.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  The AdMob AdMonitor provides this a really neat Google Maps mashup showing how their mobile ad inventory is being served up in real time - geographically, on which handsets and on which carriers.
  For something as relatively nebulous as mobile advertising still is for most, this kind of dynamic visualization of information is an excellent […]

• Data, Design, Mobile

  In India for many mobile data is the only way

  04.16.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  This piece in BusinessWeek does a great job at bringing to light the huge discrepancy between how the concept of “mobile” is so vastly different here in the US than it is in developing markets like India. This has come up a lot recently at work and I think it provides really valuable perspective when […]

• Mobile, Thoughts

  Amazon’s TextBuyIt: all you need to know

  04.02.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  One would think that the last thing I need from Amazon is another way to make buying things even easier (Amazon Prime, I love you) but they’ve found one: let me buy stuff via SMS!
  The best description of the feature I read today comes via CrunchGear:
  Need something immediately? Want to check on a price? Text […]

• Gadgets, Locative, Mobile, Social, Thoughts

  When will mobile social apps finally take off?

  03.25.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Throughout our dodgeball experience we always felt confident that someone was going to execute Mobile Social Software in a way that gave it mass appeal, whether it was us or someone else, we felt passionately that there was a niche to be filled there.
  I still feel that way but I have to say […]

• Design, Mobile, Reading List, Thoughts

  Adam Greenfield to be Nokia’s new Head of Design Direction

  03.21.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Adam Greenfield, author of the seminal book Everyware: The Dawning of Ubiquitous Computing has accepted a position at Nokia as “Head of Design Direction, with a remit for the service and user interface domain.”
  As someone who’s enjoyed Adam’s work for a long time, I’m genuinely anxious to see what he can do to push things […]

• Gadgets, Mobile, Thoughts

  Using phones for phonecalls is “Booooorrrring!”

  03.17.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  …or so say a group of British children who were recently polled:
  Their survey also asked whether the students had video, music or photos on their phones, and four out of five said they had all three. When I asked a group of them what they wanted from a phone they had plenty of demands: “Multimedia, […]

• Locative, Mobile, Social, Thoughts

  NextWall: Interactive street art as clever marketing and promotion

  03.15.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  A new media agency in Hamburg called Jung von Matt/next built this slick interactive graffiti wall called NextWall to show how a variety of technologies can be used creatively in public spaces for promotion.
  What I really like about this is that its not an old-world, purely promotional (one way) play. Not only do they provide […]

• Customer Service, Design, Gold Star, Interface, Mobile, Thoughts

  iPhone + Starbucks: now with movement

  03.07.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Remember those super slick mockups from a while back for what a Starbucks + iPhone integration might look like? Well, follow this link and check out what they might look like in action - its a nice peek into what a well-executed retail app on a phone might look like.
  Big bonus points for a little […]