Stat Spot: 3G connections in Eastern Europe
50%
Poland and Romania account for 50% of the 31m 3G connections in Eastern Europe as of Q3 2009. Source: Wireless Intelligence
Mobile Premier Awards to feature MEX mobile user experience category for start-ups
I’m delighted to announce MEX is sponsoring a category at the Mobile Premier Awards for start-ups. The MPA in User Experience will recognise young companies at the cutting edge of user-centred innovation. The winner will receive a complimentary pass to attend the MEX Mobile User Experience Conference in London in May 2010.
The Awards […]
Key take-aways from the 1st day of the MEX Conference
The 6th MEX Conference was opened in London today by Marek Pawlowski, Editorial Director, MEX, and Norbert Metzner, Research Director at MEX, bringing together some of the most creative minds from across mobile, media, digital and academia. The 2 day event is the key stage in a research, debate and ideation process which started […]
MEX Inspirations for 27th November 2009
Smithsonian Fill The Gap Project
I recently learned of an interesting technique employed by the Luce Foundation Center for American Art, which is the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s visible storage facility, showing over 3,300 works of art in 64 secure glass cases. When works of art are loaned to other institutions, they post a […]
Stat Spot: Number of DNLA TV sets
22x
The number of installed TV sets supporting the DNLA home networking standard have increased 22x from 0.5m in 2007 to 10.9m in 2009. The rapid growth is predicted to continue, with the installed based reaching 245m in 2013.
Source: Screen Digest
Stat Spot: Revenue from mobile augmented reality applications
GBP 2m
Global revenues from mobile augmented reality applications will total about GBP 2m in 2009, rising rapidly to GBP 732m in 2014.
Source: Juniper Research
Meet the speakers: Bryan Rieger, Designer, Yiibu
Bryan returns to MEX to build on a widely acclaimed session he delivered earlier in the year, exploring which prototyping methods can be most effectively employed when iterating multi-platform user experience.
Bryan is a designer, writer and reluctant developer with a background originating in theatre design and classical animation. Over his career he’s worked across various […]
3 new multi-platform challenges for MEX
Some of the brightest minds and deepest thinkers from across mobile, digital and media come together next week to address 3 user experience challenges at the MEX Conference.
Over 2 days in London, 6 teams take on the 3 challenges, working together to develop new user experience concepts for multi-platform environments. The key theme is […]
Innovation gallery: Ocean Observations on using design from one platform to support needs in another
We love design that stays true to the brand no matter which platform it appears on. For example many things in the Mac interface have successfully been tweaked and used in the iPhone: graphics, as well as interaction. We believe this is not only good for the brand but also the user, since familiar often […]
New experiences at the intersection of multiple platforms
The unpalatable truth of an evolving multi-platform landscape
User experience practitioners face an unpalatable truth: the factors with the greatest impact on a customer’s impression of a product are usually negative and impossible to predict.
To use a personal example, I have developed an intense dislike for the tiny QWERTY keys of my mobile phone, not because […]
