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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

February 4, 2010. Posted by Marek Pawlowski in the ' Stat Spot' category. No comments yet - click here to share your opinion.

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 […]

December 10, 2009. Posted by Marek Pawlowski in the ' Opinions, ideas and new thinking' category. No comments yet - click here to share your opinion.

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 […]

December 3, 2009. Posted by Marek Pawlowski in the ' Opinions, ideas and new thinking' category. No comments yet - click here to share your opinion.

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 […]

November 27, 2009. Posted by Marek Pawlowski in the ' Opinions, ideas and new thinking' category. No comments yet - click here to share your opinion.

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

November 27, 2009. Posted by Marek Pawlowski in the ' Stat Spot' category. No comments yet - click here to share your opinion.

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

November 27, 2009. Posted by Marek Pawlowski in the ' Stat Spot' category. No comments yet - click here to share your opinion.

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 […]

November 27, 2009. Posted by Marek Pawlowski in the ' Meet the speakers' category. No comments yet - click here to share your opinion.

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 […]

November 27, 2009. Posted by Marek Pawlowski in the ' Opinions, ideas and new thinking, Conference admin' category. No comments yet - click here to share your opinion.

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 […]

November 27, 2009. Posted by Marek Pawlowski in the ' Opinions, ideas and new thinking' category. No comments yet - click here to share your opinion.

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 […]

November 22, 2009. Posted by Marek Pawlowski in the ' Opinions, ideas and new thinking' category. 4 comments - click here to join the debate.

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