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Entries from April 2008

iMode vs vending machine on a cold Tokyo morning

April 15th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Hillarious video (part of a larger presentation Bill Moggridge, IDEO on Interaction Design at the 2007 Potsdam Innovation Forum) demonstrating the incredible patience required to extract a soft drink from a Japanese vending machine via iMode/QR code etc. Scrub through to about 9:35 for the iMode video.
The whole video is worth a listen and begins [...]

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Tags: Design · User Experience

“Illustrating lifestyles from the developing world” on the MEX blog

April 6th, 2008 · No Comments

 
Many thanks to Marek Pawlowski, organizer of the MEX, Mobile User Experience conference, for the opportunity to publish my response to the annual MEX Manifesto on the MEX blog.
“In this article responding to point #5 of the MEX Manifesto (’The developing world is the new frontier for mobile user experience‘), Stephanie Rieger of user experience [...]

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Tags: Culture · Emerging Economies · Ethnography · Mobility · User Experience