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21 February 2006
Mobile UI Designer Phone

The first question in some Voight-Kampff-like test for mobile UI designers should be “what is your current phone?”. The answer you are looking for is Sony Ericsson. I’m joking of course, but there’s a great respect among the UI designers/developers community for Sony Ericsson products.

Ericsson was one of the first to drop the one-main-menu-item-per-screen structure in favor of tabbed menu. Then T68 and it’s matrix menu (icon grid) set the new standard.

I consider Sony Ericsson to be some kind of a mobile UI trendsetter. That’s why I think (or hope) the “next big thing” in UI design will come from SE. Too bad they prefer evolution in small steps than revolution, though it’s perfectly understandable.
 
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Makes sense!

I find the step by step approach, interesting.
With SE, I see a good understanding of both the hardware, as well as the software interface, from a feature-hungry user point of view.

Nokia is amazing... for the vanilla"I just wanna talk!" kinda user.

Hephail
 
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     Mike Smullin | June 07, 2006 17:55 PM   
 
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