Gabriel White - Sensing context in mobile design
Mainstream mobile devices are being loaded with sensors. These devices can be used to create experiences that are tailored, adaptive and responsive to the way people live and work. Location-awareness allows devices to respond to place, networked address books enable socially rich communication experiences, and motion and gestural sensors empower designers to respond to context of use. All these elements are creating a âsensitive ecosystemâ; mobile devices that adapt gracefully to context and use.
This presentation will explore some of the design and technology trends that are shaping design for mobile devices, show examples of devices and services that are starting to take advantage of these trends, then explain how designers need to rethink design problems to take advantage of this technological ground-shift.
Gabriel is a seasoned interaction designer and world traveler. Currently Interaction Design Director at Punchcut in San Francisco, Gabriel was a Principal Designer at Frog Design, led design teams at Motorola China, visited Microsoftâs Research Lab in Beijing, and consulted in Australia.
With ten yearsâ experience in the design industry and a deep understanding of the mobile space, Gabriel is passionate about creating meaningful products and services that help improve peopleâs lives. He has written for ACM Interactions Magazine, and publishes regularly through his mobile design blog, Small Surfaces. Gabriel was the interaction design lead for Motorolaâs MotoFone, a phone designed specifically for poor, non-literate people in developing countries.
Licensed as Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/).
Web Directions Podcast
en-auOctober 24, 2008