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You know you’re a geek when you have dinner, then settle in to watch mobile usability tests that Bryan filmed this afternoon (for a project I’m not even working on)
Enough said…

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The ‘From Business to Buttons‘ PDF and Keynote presentations are live along with some video (look for the ‘Web TV ‘link top right of the page.)
How many times have we heard this before
“Here is another new thing we have developed which will help people do things they always wanted to do and will [...]

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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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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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A great interview with Jan Chipchase from the folks at the Convivio Network (”a Thematic network of researchers and practitioners from many backgrounds (computer science, human sciences, design, business) developing a broad discipline of human-centered design of digital systems for everday life.”)
A few notable passages…
The extent to which the research team spends time in context [...]

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Most of this stuff is from Nokia and specifically S60 related but there’s lots of good information regardless of the O/S or platform you’re developing for.

Usability Culturally Speaking: Short paper by Nokia introducing common issues such as differences in text direction, colour usage, iconography, number and date conventions etc.
Series 60 UI Style Guide: Just what [...]

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After a far too long hiatus i’m back (from Bangkok!—more on that very soon.) So for starters, a bunch of new mobile learning material
Mobile Learning on the Cheap
Lots of good ideas here that range from how to use PDAs in the classroom to SMS based activities.

An exploration of various currently available devices by [...]

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This installment of the Carnival of the Mobilists (#42) is hosted by Mobile Active and includes my mobile literacy checklist.
A great linelup includng a very interesting ‘post of the week’ from Scott Shaffer about Google’s creation of QR codes for the masses (a great idea in my opinion. One of the simplest and most [...]

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