Prototyping for PC experiences is a luxury, prototyping for mobile experiences is essential.! Here are a few of the prototyping methods by Rachel Hinman on mobile interaction design projects.
Category: Mobile
Perspective: Thinking Outside the App
“So you built an app. People can take your brand anywhere they go. But do they? And where do you go from here? Have apps delivered the value you expected from mobile? “
An article worth reading by punchcut if you don’t just want to join a App Race. It’s important to understand holistic mobile strategy beyond a one-off killer app.
Ex-Pixar Animator Creates Astounding Kids’ Book On iPad
“The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore” is like a well-written bedtime story for kids.
Awesome work, with great details.
Augmented Reality Cinema App from Movies Into Real Life
Nice concept, great content pairing.
How Tesco Homeplus Brought a Smartphone Supermarket to the korea’s Subway
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Well, Indeed a great concept, physical browsing designed for digital shopping. Solving the way to shop so people could enjoy their free time.
And the results are very positive about 10,287 consumers visited the online HOMEPLUS mall using smartphones. The number of new registered members rose by 76%, and on-line sales increased 130%.
Card.io: Make Paying for Things on the Phone a Snap
Awesome, loved this idea. Card.io is the simple and secure way to accept credit cards in your mobile app.
Card.io is focused on solving a specific part of the mobile payments business — buying things with a credit card on the phone, whether it’s digital goods, like a song, or physical goods from a site like Amazon.
Rather than having to type in the credit card number, users just hold a credit card up to the phone’s camera, which automatically reads the card information and enters the appropriate data.
Six ways to think about multi-screen design
A short presentation by Precious, outlining six design patterns for multi-screen experiences. The presentation outlines different ways to think about the relationships between multiple co-existent screens (which they’ve called Coherence, Synchronization, Screen Sharing, Device Shifting, Complementarity, Simultaneity). via smallsurfaces.
Rimino – A Human Touch on Mobile Experience
Now here’s the mobile experience made me wow: Project Rimino redefines mobile experience through human factors research and design thinking. Informed by human experience, the project is guided by both observational and experimental design research methods.
The Rimino concept is an E-paper mobile device with a user interface inspired by print posters. Historically, as technology has progressed, devices have become more conspicuous. Rimino challenges this trend and presents the alternative: technology that is more integrated and more sensitive to the human experience.
Rimino concept video represents a future that is envisioned to be more aligned with what we need and want as people instead of our needs and wants being dictated by technology.
Awesome work with great details.
“A Flip Phone Concept” What is being creative?
Watch the above video to see a Flip phone which is based on a concept, a reflection on What it means to be creative. ?conceived by Kristian Ulrich Larsen.
Interesting concept.
De-Mystifying The Elusive Mobile Context
Practitioners of mobile UX design often cite context as the biggest difference between designing for mobile experiences and other design spaces. But what does “the mobile context“ really mean?
Rachel Hinman Article on “De-Mystifying The Elusive Mobile Context” talk about Mobile experiences occur in diverse places and times, and under dynamic social conditions.
Video: Fiat Evo iPhone App Campaign
A very cool mobile app campaign from Fiat. The most interesting part of this is that by relying on existing signage to activate the campaign, this mobile app treats road signs like QR Codes. By capturing the signs with the app, users get information on various features of the Evo, the app is taking advantage of a huge potential set of calls to action that are already ubiquitous.
With a small budget Fiat managed to create their largest ever outdoor campaign with over 1,000,000 traffic signs being spotted on week one.
Video: The new Financial Times web app for iPad, iPhone
The new Financial Times have launched a new, faster, more complete web app for the iPad and iPhone which is available via your browser rather than from an app store.!
The new app has a number of benefits like:
– Web browser access – No download needed
– Automatic enhancements – No need to visit an app store for the latest version
– Reading offline – The latest edition is automatically stored for offline access
– Speed – Improved performance on most connections
– Greater range of content – Including video on iPhone
It employs a new Web technology standard called HTML5, which allows programmers to create a single application that can run on a variety of devices, including Apple’s iPhone and iPad, Google’s android phones system and the BlackBerry PlayBook, although the new app does not work on some versions of the devices.
Infographic: Is Anything Private on Your Phone Anymore?
We people today are more concerned about privacy on mobile phones than ever before, but are unclear about what is at risk and how they can protect their privacy. Have a look at the range of personal information on your phone, explain the top privacy concerns and give simple steps you can take to put your mind at ease.
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Infographic: Mobile In The Enterprise — How And Why Businesses Are Using Mobile
Visualized how mobile applications in the business sphere are the future!. Decision makers now see that these tools increase productivity, reduce paperwork, and increase revenue in ways other devices simply cannot.
It’s time to go mobile.
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Dot: 360º video capture for the iPhone 4
A stylish pocketable 360º (panoramic) lens attachment and app for the iPhone 4. It does what it says perfectly 🙂 Well the product idea is cool!
Dot lets your iPhone capture immersive, fully navigable, panoramic video in real-time – and share with friends on your phone, as well as on Facebook and Twitter, or streamed online using awesome panoramic video web platform and player.