Marek Pawlowski spoke with JD Moore about mobiles and developing countries for the upcoming MEX conference. Watch the 20 minute video below.
Link: In-depth video interview on emerging markets (mobileuserexperience.com)
Posts Tagged: interview
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Feb 08
Why mobile search is different
Scott Jenson, leading Google’s mobile efforts, talks about why mobile search is different.
(for those on the RSS, follow the link for the video)
Link: MEX 2008: Scott Jenson, Google (youtube.com)
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Apr 07
Interview with Kyocera Design Director
Stephen Wellman interviews Frank Tyneski, Senior Director of Design and Human Factors for Kyocera Wireless
“Today’s challenge is in bridging the distance between those designing hardware and those designing the user interface. The difference between universal UI and custom UI is becoming more apparent in the phone experience. As devices continue to advance, carriers will need to elevate their UI expectations to compete on equal footing—placing more pressure on handset manufacturers and developers to not just collaborate but cohabitate.”
Link: The Evolution of the Mobile Phone User Experience (informationweek.com)
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Dec 06
Designing products at Nokia
An interview with Nokia’s chief product designer, Alastair Curtis.
“With all products, it’s about the experience, not just what it looks like. This is the 8800. We looked at every element. The ring tones aren’t traditional ring tones. The ring tones were done by [musician] Ryuichi Sakamoto. This is a premium product, we wanted to give it that extra element of premium-ness by having sounds different from the traditional. We took the sound experience to another level by saying, when you open the product it should have a very distinct sound. Like certain car doors, when you open and close them, some feel good, some feel bad. We spent a huge amount of time trying to get the sound right. You can’t put it into a technical term, it just feels good.”
Link: Online Extra: A Chat with Nokia’s Alastair Curtis (businessweek.com)
(Tip of the hat to Dan Saffer, who just rated Small Surfaces one of the best interaction design blogs of 2006. Thanks!)
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Oct 06
Interview with Jan Chipchase
Jan Chipchase talks about ethnography and methodology.
“I do have a habit of trying new things to experience the experience – having my ears cleaned in a Hue barber’s shop springs to mind. Sitting in the chair mentally breaking down the composite parts of the experience – the tools he used including a customized razor blade and a miner-style head torch, the background chatter, Vietnamese pop music on the radio, the sound of motorbike engines passing by plus his running commentary of what was happening. Breaking things down into composite parts is simply how I make sense of the world around me.”
Link: Interviews: Jan Chipchase (convivionetwork.net, via)
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Aug 06
Interview with BenQ about user experience
An interview with Anuraj Gambhir, Head of Technology Marketing & Industry Relations.
“To bring the best user experience we need to hide the technology and use it as an enabler so the benefits jump out. A delightful experience will exploit the embedded innovations to present the true essence of the packaged, hence enhancing its value proposition. Its all about what technology can do for you and what you can do with technology. To quote Leo Tolstoy: “… and where there is no simplicity, goodness & truth, there can be no greatness.””
Link: Interview: Anuraj Gambhir, BenQ (mobileuserexperience.com)
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Jun 06
Experience design at Nokia
An interesting interview with the Head of Brand Visual and Sensorial Experiences (nice one!) at Nokia.
“Even today my work is still very much involved in understanding and recognising trends and the way people or societies are changing. One of the important things is to realise the difference between ‘long-term’ societal trends and ‘short-term’ lifestyle trends, but also to understand that some short-term trends have the potential to cross into the mainstream of society, where they become much more influential.”
Link: New levels of Experience Design (pingmag.jp)
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Dec 05
Nokia’s Director of Design Strategy
An interview with Nokia’s Director of Design Strategy.
“At Nokia, we believe that people are increasingly looking for simple and sensorial products. And so, the challenge is: how do you make an elegant simplicity that hides the complexity in the overall interface and experience of the product? This is a real design challenge and opportunity so we spend a lot of time at that. The theme at this conference is ‘hybrid’ – is there a better example of a mass-market hybrid product than the mobile phone? I mean, it was based on a collective good – a shared phone if you like. Transform that into a personal object. At the same time, cut the cord and it becomes a simple familiar function – but mobile. Then, the clock is there. Then text messaging and now we have the camera as well. So, it’s a platform with a lot of gravity, which is a real design challenge because this is when we start loosing the simplicity.”
Link: HYBRID: Interview with Marko Ahtisaari (ddc.dk)
