Designers at Punchcut prepared this video to illustrate the thinking about touch UI design. Designing for touch-based mobile user interfaces requires new thinking and an expanded design vocabulary. I am really excited and have copuple of plans for experiments with touch UI which i will update here soon. 🙂
Some important snippets are:
vivek
Recently Adaptive put up a micro reports on understanding of how rural people in India uses mobile technologies. “Mobile Literacy” is a design and research project to understand how mobile technology can work more effectively in emerging markets. Adaptive Path went to rural India to investigate the impact of mobile technology and developed concepts for new mobile devices for this market.
MobilGlyph: Making Data Tangible from Adaptive Path on Vimeo.
They also shared their comprehensive framing of design principles for such a target audience, one that takes their contextual knowledge of communication technology, consumer electronics and literacy into account.
Few snippet:
Six primary design principles they came up with:
Designing a mobile for rural Market is my dream task and i am much passionate to do that, Understanding user motivations, their experiences, what they are looking for and how they use it and how? is important for designing good experiences.
vivek
Good sources of inspiration is an essential part of the creative process. Let’s discover what other mobile designers have done to create delightful user experiences by exploring the Forum Nokia Design Gallery.
And think again “how good design can help you create successful mobile products!” The effectiveness of design matters a lot for creating a good user experiences.
vivek
Nokia recently updated its Design and User Experience Library which gathers all essential aspects of design and usability into one. The library includes different kinds of guidelines, material about theme design, graphics design, and game design, as well as the basics of usability.
The updated library includes different kinds of guidelines, material about theme design, graphics design, and game design, as well as the basics of usability. Updates to v1.5 include a new section about designing and creating S60 3rd Edition themes.
You can also read other interesting article in this update about “Chinese markets or the state of mobile and service design in China” which is quite interesting !.
vivek
Guten Touch is an interactive art installation “Designed for the Red Bull Music Academy 08” that involves people into a natural relationship with technology. A two projected displays system plus a 3m x 2m multitouch wall showcase applications designed to engage us into human friendly experiences. Space Invaders hitted by foam balls, pixel paintings created with brushes, and digital objects held by hands try to blur boundaries between real and digital.
I really love this project and the way they expreimented and created relationships with human and technology 🙂
very cool
vivek
Last week i switched off my macbook pro for few hours which usually i don’t and took some spare time to see my old design works.
And i designed this using recycled cardboard with cutout of some of my old and new illustration prints 🙂
Finally sticked on my study room door 😉
I really love this.
vivek
Design For Mobile is the first and only North American mobile user experience conference. This is a two-day conference focused on strategy and tactics for user research, product definition, interaction and other design, and usability testing. A day of workshops precede the conference sessions.
Event Time: April 20-22, 2009
Registration: is now open with the early bird rate available until March 7th.
I feel and think design is something which can change the way people look things and connects everyone. 🙂
vivek
i2fly on the cool mobile design showcase of PAGE magazine’s January 2009 issue. I’ve been dreaming of being featured on publications this year and never imagined to be get featured in the beginning of new year. Feeling soo great and a dream come true 🙂
About project:
Mysore dasara is a mobile website designed for Indian festival. you can find the finest information while traveling there, an ultimate travel guide for events schedules, hotels, how to reach, image gallery etc.
You can read about Mysore dasara mobile project here.
Cheers everyone. 🙂
vivek
Just found this very intresting film “Objectified” which is a feature-length independent documentary about industrial design. It’s a look at the creativity at work behind everything from toothbrushes to tech gadgets. It’s about the people who re-examine, re-evaluate and re-invent our manufactured environment on a daily basis. It’s about personal expression, identity, consumerism, and sustainability. It’s about our relationship to mass-produced objects and, by extension, the people who design them.
And in-depth conversations, the film documents the creative processes of some of the world’s most influential designers, and looks at how the things they make impact our lives. What can we learn about who we are, and who we want to be, from the objects with which we surround ourselves?
vivek
So let’s begin & decorate your mobile phones with all new creative and cute Flash lite mobile wallpaper and screensavers. We (i2fly) released a whole new range of mobile contents for Christmas, New Year and holiday seasons to make your moments more beautiful and personalized.
It’s too simple to download them, just choose the respective below link and download.
1.Rudolph in the snow 2.Cute snowy santa 3. Beautiful tree 4.frosty the snowman 5.Dazzling reindeer clock
6.Sparkling snow day 7.lovely xmastree 8.Snow in forest 9.Christmas clock 10.Winters snowy night 11.Rudolph in the snow
12.Love n christmas 13.Mountainscape
14.Wish star 15.Christmas snow charger
As usual love to know your comments/suggestions, please feel free to post here or write me. And if you like to see some beautiful ideas which you have it in your mind, mail us we will love to know and craft especially for your phones to see more happy and smiling faces. 🙂
We are also looking for association to distribute our mobile contents world wide, mail us (vivek@i2fly.com) if you have any kinda requirements.
Stay tuned. . we are in process for something more  Yes! more 😀
It’s Christmas time !!!
Cheers
vivek
Wishing all of you a very Happy Diwali, a great Indian festival and wish all of you celebrate in cheerfull mood.
Let’s share the love, peace, joy & happiness 🙂 around the world.
Enjoy 🙂
vivek
I recently updated my article on Adobe Devnet “Designing for mobile devices using Fireworks CS4“. Using design and i much passionate about  creating engaging experiences which differentate any simple application in to enjoyable, usable and engaging.
“The visual elements that comprise the user experience on mobile devices are themselves becoming more important as devices become more complex and users become more adept. I believe there is a great opportunity at this time to help shape the future of user interfaces on handheld devices and promote intuitive interaction as a standard. Making something beautiful, as well as functional, will result in an application that is useful and offers a more interesting and compelling experience for consumers.â€
“Put simply: small is beautiful. When interface design effortlessly fulfils the purpose of an application while also enhancing its aesthetic, there is a greater chance that the end product will be successful. Users are naturally more drawn towards an application that they view as enjoyable and engaging.â€
Its great and love to know your feedback, kindly post your comments.
vivek
EMO.ZINE – Mysore Dasara 2008
I2fly released again a mobile Indian travel guide on “Mysore Dasara†for your mobile devices under the Brand of EMO.ZINE
Its Simple to browse EMO.ZINE – Mysore Dasara 2008
Type http://mysoredasara.i2fly.mobi in your mobile browser.
or
QR-Codes
If you have a QR-Codes reader you can scan below image and browse the EMO.ZINE-Mysore Dasara 2008 directly in to your mobile devices.
So what this travel guide is all about?
A compact Mobile travel guide with easy access to all information like . .
Finally each section includes tips for travel and visit.
What is Dasara festival ?
The Dasara festival, also called navaratri or dasahara is perhaps the most widely celebrated festival of India. And comprises nine nights of worship and celebration, called Navaratri.
Mysore- which of all the cities in India is perhaps the epicentre of this particular festival. The city of Mysore has a long tradition of celebrating the Dasara festival and the festivities here are an elaborate affair and attract a large audience including foreigners.
During this festival city is beautifully decorated and illuminated. Different Cultural programmes by famous artists are arranged in the Palace. Musicians and dance groups from all over India are invited to perform on this occasion. A place once you visit it will be forever in your memories.
A must visit place which is also known as “City of Palacesâ€.
What is EMO.ZINE
A microcontent publishing, bringing rich creative content for mobile devices.
In general it’s an interactive magazine publication, for your mobile devices to know and explore the rich Indian traditions, culture, and many more things coming up…stay tuned 🙂 . We love to capture the emotions and deliver it to your mobile devices to see a smile in your face.
If you have any ideas or looking for similar kind of product to design for yourself or for any business enquiries, feel free to get in touch with us.
Mail Us: vivek@i2fly.com or krvishal@i2fly.com
It will be really nice to hear from you, your feedback/ suggestions anything …feel free to mail me or post your comments here.
vivek
A great news for designers and developers and something must to be excited about the new release of Adobe Creative Suite 4 🙂
Read more about Creative suite CS4 here. i will post in details about it soon.
If you have missed watching Adobe CS4 Launch Broadcast, watch recording here.
vivek
I found this very intresting research paper a Cross Cultural Study on Phone Carrying and Personalisation co-authored by Cui Yanqing and Fumiko Ichikawa which is presented at HCI International 2007 in Beijing.
This essay presents data from a series of Nokia street surveys conducted between 2003 and 2006 that explored where people carry their mobile phones and why?
“Where’s the Phone street surveys set out to document the extent to which people noticed their incoming communication and cross refererence this information to the location where the phone is carried. The mobile phone’s effectiveness as a communication device is partly dependent on its owner noticing incoming communication (though whether someone decides to respond to that communication is another matter entirely) and it was assumed by the authors that the process of deciding to carry an object would correlate with a minimal level of its effective use. Contexts where there was a high likelihood of missing incoming communication presented a design opportunity both in terms of thinking about device redesign and from the perspective of connectivity-related services accessed through that device.
Download this pdf here as powerpoint or pdf (3MB).
Read as from Jan Chipchase here.
View results of this research paper here
Very Interesting . .
vivek
There is importance of design and good design which we need to understand. Design is everywhere and anywhere 🙂
vivek