Month: November 2002

UI = ubiquitous interface

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From The Reg on Rhiengold/Smartmobs:

“For years we’ve been pointing out that the biggest computer company on the planet is not Dell, or Sun or IBM, but Nokia. At the four corners of the globe, people use these computers without even realizing it or sparing a thought about the ‘platform battles’ that the tech press chews over daily. It’s a popular revolt of sorts.”

Some flakey logicflips (of the type I am wont to perform) from this would dictate that Nokia has the most familiar UI in the world. I wonder has anyone created a website or interactive TV app, that slavishly copies the UI and interaction design of Christian Lindholm’s ‘Navikey’ interface for Nokia and recorded how it performs?

» The Register: Phones more disruptive than PC or Internet – Rheingold

It’s just a rumour that’s been spread around town.

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Anne Galloway on Clay Shirky’s ‘social software and shipbuilding’ riff. New readers start here for more on ‘Shipbuilding’; but if you want to go straight to Anne’s piece, then this is socialshipbuilding-in-a-nutshell:

“We are ill-served by the current metaphor of architecture and space, instead we should consider the construction of social software as like building a ship: Ships are places where people come together… but they come together in order to get somewhere.” – Clay

Doors

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Going to be jumping on a plane tomorrow to Amsterdam to attend Doors of Perception.

Hopefully there will be some wireless connectivity at the conference, otherwise I’ll be lugging my lump of titanum for nothing.

Anyway – if you’re attending, let me know either by mail, or leaving a comment below.