Cloud computing
21/03/2009
Why do I blog this?
The key selling point here being obviously less hassle, I can’t stop thinking how frequently I do experience a weak network, including for VOIP. The seams are to be designed.
Nokia 5800: contacts bar
16/03/2009
Nokia recently unveiled the new Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, a touch-screen mobile device for music and social media consumption. It is the first device to support Comes With Music. It also includes the Media bar, and the home-screen Contacts Bar widget.
While leading an exploratory translation of Nokia brand promise of delivering ‘very human technology to feel close to who and what matters’, my team and I focused on the impact of an always-on world and the subsequent new metaphors needed to represent a communication flow to become organic.
The homescreen was the place of choice for glanceable communication status with your loved ones.
This was one of these early projects to articulate both the aggregation of communication channels per avatar (call, sms, email, flick, etc), in one place, the homescreen, and new metaphors to represent communication status.
Why do I blog this? Because as such aggregation expands to more channels rapidly new forms of representation will soon be necessary.
Photo © Nokia, 2008.
For more information on the 5800: press release
History of internet/2
16/03/2009
I was really sick, enough to decide not to go Geneva last friday to attend the www@20, but Nicolas Nova has posted his best notes from the day:
http://liftlab.com/think/nova/2009/03/14/20-years-of-the-first-paper-about-the-world-wide-web/
History of internet/1
07/03/2009
A short animation forwarded by my colleague and friend Manuel Lima on the history of internet:
http://www.lonja.de/motion/mo_history_internet.html
Opening!
06/03/2009
As I keep being asked where’s my blog, here is finally my first post on my 36th birthday.
I’ll collect though about design practices as much as observations around me.
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