User Experience

Freedom In Mobility

The criticism (more like the complaint) we hear a lot these days has to do with our ‘over-connectedness.’ We are told that people are too connected… That it is interfering with personal lives and affecting our quality of life. Really? Is it technology’s fault or is it our inability to say no to technology that [...]

July 19, 2011 Read the full article →

Mobile Customer Advocates

Time and time again I see one thing being overlooked in mobile. Can you venture a guess? Would you believe that organizations actually forget about the mobile user and the mobile experience somewhere between concept and implementation?   This is not done on purpose or through some evil plot from the tethered zombies.  It just [...]

July 23, 2010 Read the full article →

Zoompass Announcement Falls Short of ‘my’ expectations

I am not sure I get it at times.  I know that the technology is limited and that a lot of the talk that sometimes goes around is more dreaming than real possibilities. Today’s Zoompass announcement however strikes me more as a step backwards than a forward one.  This is what happens when the initiative [...]

March 3, 2010 Read the full article →

How you view your employees and their knowledge will determine the success of your implementation…

‘Economists, said John Maynard Keynes, should think of themselves as humble specialists, on a par with dentists. But his advice has gone unheeded. Over the past 50 years, economics and its jargon have penetrated every corner of human life. Decisions to marry and inject heroin alike are explained in terms of utility maximisation. Doctors, priests [...]

February 26, 2010 Read the full article →

Of Context and Content

Here is an obvious statement for you to think about: In mobile, context and content are inseperable. Or at least they should be considered inseparable. Context will affect the way you relate to the content available to you.  At times content may affect the way you relate to your context and even force you to [...]

November 4, 2009 Read the full article →

Mobile Application Development And Consumers – Going From Workflows to Lifeflows

Much has been written on how innovative ideas are born, evolved and tested first on consumers before they make their way into the enterprise. We have seen it with Web 2.0 and social media and social networking.  This is absolutely true and the consumer market proves to be a wonderful and invaluable living lab for [...]

October 8, 2009 Read the full article →

Not All Mobile Applications Are Created Equal

And therefore do not require the same metrics.  Of course if you are developer for-fun as opposed to a for-profit one you may note be too concerned about this.  However you will never know where and how to improve something unless you measure it.  If you measure there is a better chance of understanding how [...]

October 3, 2009 Read the full article →

Media Convergence and Mobility

Over at The Economist Media Covergence site you will find this neat little video announcing their Media Convergence Forum later this month (October 20-21, 2009 in NYC).  The video which, provided for you below, is about the pace of change… The surge of new technologies and social media innovations in today’s environment is significantly altering [...]

October 1, 2009 Read the full article →

Collection of tiny mobile apps for your iPhone (or my Personalized Enterprise Gateway)

New to me … but probably old to you (remember I don’t use an iPhone in everyday life).  It took me back to some of the projects I have worked on before and the ever present need of providing relevant information to our mobile users/workers. So today I bumped into Leaflets – Leaflets are small, [...]

June 30, 2009 Read the full article →

Mobile Banking Overview

We have not been around for a while but wanted to take a brief moment to point you to a report by the Mobile Marketing Association on Mobile Banking Overview which is described as … an educational resource designed to provide analysis of the unique marketing opportunities and attributes that the mobile channel represents for [...]

February 5, 2009 Read the full article →