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User Interaction on Touch Screen Mobile Phones

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

Gestures Tap Double tap Flick Drag Pinch open Pinch close Touch and hold Two-finger scroll Read more about Apple iPhone UI Guidelines

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Usability Tests on Mobile Phones

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

Here’s the executive summary of usability test findings conducted on 3 next-generation smartphones: the Nokia N95, the HTC touch, and the Apple iPhone. Users with no smartphone experience conducted a series of 8 tasks on each device in order to determine how the devices fared in terms of overall usability. ...

Posted in User Centered Design, eXperience Design, Usability, Mobile Phones, Apple iPhone Tricks,Bugs,Hacks | 1 Comment »

Using ethnography to design for BOP

Monday, April 21st, 2008

Interesting read, on how Nokia used ethnography to design for BOP among other stuff like using ethnographers as user emissaries instead of brand emissaries. “”This sort of on-the-ground intelligence-gathering is central to what’s known as human-centered design, a business-world niche that has become especially important to ultracompetitive high-tech companies trying ...

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handheld.photo.eXperience

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

.Photo.eXperience { resolution: 2MPx; display: 3.5″; device: apple iPhone; mode: fullscreen; interaction: touchscreen; sensor : autorotate} > .Photo.eXperience { resolution: 7.2MPx; display: 2.5″; device: sony w 55; interaction: hard keys;}

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Sun’s Design Blog

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

My xDesign team (Software Experience Design team + UCD Product team) is in the midst of setting up a design blog called design @ Sun. And for some shameless self promotion, i’ve been selected as a blog hero

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