Tag Archives: mobile

Jobs be damned: Flash on the iPad! (Silverlight, too!)

 

As the row between Apple and Adobe over Flash on the iPhone OS continued to grow, we thought circumventing the issue entirely might be disruptive. If we could seamlessly deliver a site that uses Flash in Mobile Safari without installing … Continue reading →

 

A dialog about magazines: Popular Science

 

Among other things, Christopher Konrad and Martijn van Tilburg read magazines for Artefact. MvT: With all these companies trying to come up with the next big thing in print, it would be interesting to look at what they are concocting. … Continue reading →

 

Designing Products for Emerging Markets: On-Demand DesignCast

 

#emerging_markets #webinar #mobile #artefactgroup [tweetmeme]If you missed the live webcast/webinar/stream by Masuma and Martijn on Designing Products for Emerging Markets, you can now download the video file for your own viewing pleasure at mydesignshop.com Here’s the description of what you’ll … Continue reading →

 

Dear Mobile Manufacturers, Show Me a Truly Connected World – An Open Letter

 

[photo: movies.nytimes.com] [tweetmeme]The following is a result of a dialog between Gabriel Biller and I, Kevin Wong, who are both researchers at Artefact. Mobile manufacturers have put into people’s hands a device that unlocks information and connects people with each … Continue reading →

 

3D Gets Off to Shaky Start on Mobile

 

The third dimension has piqued the interest of Hollywood for big-screen productions, but there may be a place for the technology on a much smaller screen – and not necessarily one attached to special headgear or glasses. Early experimentations are … Continue reading →

 

Beyond the fad: There’s more to touch than meets the eye

 

Recent innovation in the mobile phone market has introduced many new ideas around user input mechanisms (e.g. touch and speech), UI model, as well as output (e.g. new types of displays and audio). When designing digital products, it is important … Continue reading →

 

Palm’s Secret Weapon for the Pre

 

A dearth of competing high-profile announcements in the runup to the announcement of the Pre and its software also benefited Palm. Apple had no smartphone news at the Macworld show, held in January. And of the thousands of product announcements … Continue reading →

 

Parsing the Touch-Screen Market

 

After the launch of Apple’s first iPhone in 2007, touch screens became table stakes for handset manufacturers. In 2008, nearly every vendor came out with their own touch-screen copycat. MultiMedia Intelligence now predicts that by 2011, touch-screen phone shipments will … Continue reading →

 

In The News On Touch And Mobile Experiences

 

We have been informed a few of our interviews have been posted on PC Magazine and Wireless Week. Martijn Van Tilburg and Sabrina Boler were asked to share their thoughts on the advancement of touch based interfaces for mobile and … Continue reading →

 

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