Keitai

I read an interesting white paper from TechSmith entitled UX 2.0: Any User, Any Time, Any Channel.
The premise was this: Web 2.0 is allowing users to create their own experiences. They can use APIs (and API-based UIs and services) to choose what they see and interact with, or mix and mash it to create [...]

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Some neat stuff i’ve been reading…
Wireless Works: Exploring New Brand Connections
A great research paper from the folks at the BBDO Proximity Lab.
“People truly treasure their mobile phones. They are reassured by them. They feel loved and secure when they have them and lonely and anxious when they do not. And they see their [...]

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I’ve read a few posts lately that talk about Flash Lite as a killer marketing tool on mobile devices. The most often noted reasons are:

ease and speed of development and testing,
the rich UI and design capabilities
the ubiquity of the platform (ubiquity’s is not here yet, but it finally seems to be well on its way)

I [...]

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What makes people personalize? At what point does personalization overwhelm the item being personalized? (Real person BTW —I wish I had my camera

Description: Male, 20-something
Occupation: design student
Location: Spotted talking on the phone, buying bubble-tea, Vancouver, Canada
Device: N Gage QD (weight 143 grams with battery)
Personalization: 15-20 assorted charms (weight of keitai strap—easily 5 times [...]

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Sometimes, there’s a disconnect on the device itself.
So the phone rings and I pick up our new Sony Ericsson W810i. We bought it for testing so i’ve never actually heard it ring or picked up a call.
Being a Nokia Series 60 junkie I look for the Green ‘answer’ button but can’t find it so start [...]

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So i’ve noticed a strange thing about mobile emulators. The added context is great but sometimes it’s just not enough. Then again—sometimes it’s too much…
Mobile emulator 1 (two weeks ago)

How it looked: Flash Lite application (swf) embedded on a web page directly a background image of a Nokia 6630. So to the user, it looks [...]

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