Monthly Archives: March 2010

Redundant service launched for unemployed

Deciding on a technical strategy for a mobile campaign or service can be really tricky. We like to think we offer our clients a good level of insight, and we are often amused by some of the mobile technology choices made by companies and organisations. However, I think it is fair to say that I was [...]

10 common misconceptions about the average mobile user

In light of the announcement of the opening of the MEX Awards competition this week, and due to Marek et al’s raging, slobbering levels of common sense when it comes to contextual design and user centred thinking, I thought it might be nice to put together a list of misconceptions that we most commonly see [...]

Orange and Netvibes deal brings Widgets to the fore

Orange made a very interesting announcement yesterday regarding their support of widgets. Their tie up with Widget Behemoth Netvibes is a big positive step towards adopting widgets as a platform. This ties neatly into the conversations that were going on in Barcelona about unified app platforms. Ericsson, for example, use widgets as the basis for [...]

MWC Report 2. The best party award goes to… Vantrix!

We Love Mobile are normally too tight to give awards. However, we would like to tip a nod to our favourite party of MWC. To set the scene, MWC does tend to revolve around the parties. While I’m sure some people get some work done in meetings during the day, we find that more is [...]

Microsoft do something properly cool…

No big spiel today, just a sexy piece of interaction work from Microsoft on the Engadget site. http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/ Skinput allows you to touch your arm to interact – a way of allowing sign language to be used as an input method, perhaps? Anyway, another exciting and totally overlooked way of moving interaction forwards that is [...]

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