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MEX - the strategy forum for mobile user experience
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The strategy forum for pioneers of the mobile user experience
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Semantics
Industries love to measure themselves and mobile is no exception. There are weekly reports on the number of ‘smartphones’ shipped, sliced and diced by vendor, operating platform and geographical territory. Most recently, I read the number of ‘smartphones’ shipped last year now exceeds the number of ‘PCs’. These terms – ‘smartphone’ and ‘PC’ – are [...]
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Further thoughts on Nokia
Here are some additional thoughts following on from my 26th January 2012 BBC television interview on Nokia’s Devices business. Nokia is better understood as two organisations. One (termed ‘smartphones’ in Nokia’s financial results) is a mid- and high-end business going through full scale re-invention, transitioning from the older, in-house Symbian platform to new devices based [...]
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Crafting experience
The Victoria & Albert Museum’s ‘Power of Making‘ exhibition highlighted the intricate and creative skills required to build experiences in the physical form. The pre-requisites for the exhibition’s most successful items seemed to be knowledge of materials, patience to iterate and willingness to subvert processes and raw ingredients from their original purpose. These same techniques [...]
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MEX Inspirations: Kids + stickers + blank canvas = ?
Colossal published this fascinating set of photographs showing what happens when you give a group of children an unlimited number of sticks and a white-painted room to use as a blank canvas. I couldn’t help but think about how this might help designers understand user motivations in a world of touchscreen interactions.
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Defining personal computing
“Apple went from 3.42% share at the end of 2008 to 5.6% share today excluding the iPad or 17.6% including the iPad. HP went from 19.3% in 2008 to 16% today or 13% if iPad is included.” (via Asymco) Every industry likes to measure its performance but the choice of metrics can cause business strategy [...]
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