April 22nd 2009 Event @ Seren

Poster design by Luke Bowler

While possibly a little later than expected, we’re very excited to be announcing that the next Mobile Design UK event will be held on April 22nd, 2009. This time around the event is graciously sponsored by Seren Partners and will be held at their offices located at 55-57 Rivington Street, London (about a 10 minute walk from Liverpool Street Station). The doors will open at 6:30 and as usual, we’re aiming to get things underway by 7:00pm.

Seren Partners Limited
55-57 Rivington Street, London
Wednesday April 22rd, doors open 6:30pm
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A big thank you to all of the speakers who have taken time-out of their schedules to share their ideas and projects at this event. The line-up for the evening includes; Nick Richards from Intel, Tom Hume from Future Platforms, Matt Pollitt and Daniel Demmel from ustwo™. A description of each of their presentations, along with a short bio can be found below.

Please register for the event via the Yahoo! Group by adding your name to the list of attendees.

Speaker Bios and Presentation Descriptions

Introduction

Catherine Lawford
Managing Director Seren Partners Ltd.

Prior to joining Seren, Catherine was Director of Product Delivery at AOL and Head of ARPU at BSkyB. Before this Catherine held several key positions at the UK’s first digital interactive TV company, Open, including Head of Operations and Head of Design. Catherine initially joined the Open JV whilst a product manager at Panasonic.

At Seren Catherine recently led a qualitative research project into the changing social networking environment for MySpace. She also led a functional branding project for Orange.

Making Mobile Video Work?

Nick Richards www.nedrichards.com
Interaction Designer, Intel

The failure of mobile video and tv has been known industry wisdom for years and years. Yet the massive and growing success of desktop web video in the shape of YouTube and iPlayer has shaped the industry more than almost anything else in the last few years. What would happen if we tried again to make mobile video work? Hopefully good things, and things that you can see today at http://www.bbc.co.uk/mobile/iplayer and http:/www.bbc.co.uk/mobile/live if you have a decent phone. I’ll tell you a bit about how we designed it.

Nick is an Interaction Designer. He currently works at Intel in London on stuff that he’s not allowed to talk about right now but that is very exciting all the same. Previously we worked for Fjord on fun projects like iPlayer mobile and for Orange on stuff he’d mostly like to forget.

Knocking Down Walls

Tom Hume @twhume
Managing Director, Future Platforms

Tom will share some thoughts on experiences on how and why to knock down the walls between design and development.

Tom is MD of Future Platforms, a 15-strong software company that’s spent most of the last decade getting mobile software products designed, built and launched; right now they’re working for Microsoft, the BBC, Puzzler Media, and a few others. He’s one of those wild-eyed agile types, holds a Designers & Art Directors Association silver nomination for his work in interactive media, and writes online at tomhume.org

Generation UX

Matt Pollitt @MattPolls
Mobile UI Designer, ustwo™

Daniel Demmel @daaain
Experience Designer and Design Technologist, ustwo™

A light hearted look over the short history of mobile UI and UX, and were it might go in the future. This short talk will specifically look at the progression of mobile UI, personalization and overall user experience over the last decade or so, and how we as mobile designers can push the boundaries to create fresh, intuitive interfaces and user experiences.

Matt is a mobile UI Designer @ ustwo™ and has been actively working on mobile application and UI design/development over the last 3-4 years. When not working or geeking-out about new interface concepts, he is normally partaking in what feels like the longest commute know to man, from Hull (east Yorkshire) where he is currently based, to the London studio.

Daniel (aka dain) is an experience designer and design technologist, working hard to align both design and technology under the holy grail which is called UX. having formal education in economics and marketing he manages this by putting both designer and developer pride away and concentrating on the user`s (= the “real” customer`s) problem instead.

Again, please register for the event via the Yahoo! Group by adding your name to the list of attendees. Hope to see you there.

Lastly, if you are interested in speaking at an upcoming event, would like to showcase your project or even sponsor space and/or refreshments for an event please do get in touch via the Yahoo Group, Twitter or email us at ‘hello at mobiledesign.org.uk‘.