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Mobile Optimized Site: Rule Number One

There is one thing that many mobile optimized sites miss.


iOS5 – First Impressions

Have you got the update yet?


Because It’s Fun

The iPad is a casual web browser and social media tool, a video player, possible eBook reader and a casual gaming system, and that’s exactly what most people want.


A New Tablet in the Neighborhood

HP’s new tablet looks promising from an interaction design/UX perspective. But will it become a popular device among developers and consumers?


Apple iPad and Windows Phone 7 Series for Interaction Designers

Two new, exciting UIs are about to launch this year – let’s get our tools and templates ready.


The Shape of Things to Come

The introduction of every new device and UI increases the need for scalable solutions, ideas and execution.


How-to’s and who-do’s

There have been plenty of useful articles in Smashing Magazine lately, from a Google Analytics guide to best practices in social network design. But the latest one to hit my radar is this: “How to Create Your First iPhone Application.” It goes from idea to necessary tools to research and sketching and programming. Submitting your [...]


Nokia N97: there is more to come

This is not a phone blog nor am I a mobile blogger. But I recently bought a Nokia N97 (white, unlocked, North American model), and I think that with all the other reviews already out there, it’s a device that still deserves another look at what it’s all about. This review is from my own [...]


Augmented Reality is Becoming Reality

I wrote a new post about augmented reality (AR) – the combination of real world and computer-generated data – in Organic’s Three Minds blog today. There are some very interesting mobile AR applications, like Wikitude for the G1 phone, already available, and Nokia’s launching a similar concept called Point and Find soon. Read the whole [...]


We are close to something big

At the Nokia World event in Barcelona, Nokia today unveiled the new N97 ‘mobile computer’, as the company calls it. The feature list of the device, which combines a touchscreen and a QWERTY keybord, easily tops the iPhone’s features, with 32 Gb of inbuilt memory (expandable up to 48 Gb), 5 megapixel camera capable of [...]


About Conceptology

Conceptology is the personal blog of Karri Ojanen, an interaction design leader, usability consultant, creative director and digital marketing strategist. The posts cover a wide area from advertising to corporate culture, mobile technology to social media, and product design to design techniques. . Subscribe via RSS »