RIM: a leap ahead in user experience, but can it execute?
[RIM’s acquisition of UI firm TAT marked the largest mobile software M&A of 2010. Research Director Andreas Constantinou explains why the...
Developer Experience & Tools: Guides & Trends
What makes a good developer experience, and why do some tools become part of a workflow while others get abandoned? Explore practical guides to developer productivity, tool evaluation, onboarding, integrations and the friction that slows software teams down. We explain developer experience (DevEx) concepts and changing tooling trends using research-informed analysis rather than feature lists alone. For survey data on developer preferences, adoption and tool-switching behaviour, visit our developer experience and tooling research.
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The Snowball Effect of Mobile Application Analytics
[It takes time for your eyes to adjust when you’ve been blind-sighted for so long. Especially if you are an entire industry. Research...
Why handset OEMs shouldn't mess with UX and other lessons from the automotive industry
[Why are so many phone manufacturers trying to develop their own branded experience? Guest author Thucydides Sigs argues that there...
UI Personalities: a new premium content market on the radar
[why do most phone user interfaces look alike? Research Director Andreas Constantinou reviews the technology and vendors that are making...
Adobe Mobile Packager: are runtimes still important or are development environments and tools taking
[Adobe just released and new way to package Flash Lite Applications for S60 and WindowsMobile: this announcement, if linked to the...
UI Technologies are trendy…but what are they really good for?
[UI development flow and actors: Graphical Designer, Interaction Designer, Software Engineer, classical technologies: GTK, Qt, next...
The perils of managing 3rd party software: do's and don'ts
[All consumer electronics, mobile and software companies have to in-source third party software – but the perils and complexities of...
Container projects: The next chapter in handset customisation
The history book of the mobile handset industry has gone through two turbulent chapters to date; the first na ve years of manufacturer...
iPhone delivers a genuinely disruptive UI
As an interaction designer working in the mobile space and as someone who follows Apple’s products with interest, the iPhone announcement...
Make it – then break it: the UI-paradigm of converged devices
The jury is still out on whether convergence will continue and mobile phones become the ultimate in-pocket-Swiss-army-knife-machine. I...
Customisation vs Personalisation: Setting the record straight
In the mobile industry, we often talk about customisation and personalisation interchangeably to describe how a service or a handset is...
User interfaces and soft walled gardens of tomorrow
A couple of years ago, many in the mobile industry foresaw that mobile operators would control most of the device specification,...
