[IxDA Discuss] Motorola Motofone User Experience

[David Malouf]

Joshua Seiden wrote:
> Maybe I'm missing something, but there is almost no discussion of the way
> the software behaves. (A small nod to flat navigation...) Motorola is
> starting to pimp design, but as always with Moto, it's just about the
> static
> elements. Hardware, icons, even sound get their own shout-outs. Where's
> the
> love? More importantly, isn't this just more of the same?

While I agree that software didn't get its due in this presentation, I
think there is a lot of IxD love in this presentation. The discussions
about sound and visual contexts of user and how they had to design to meet
those different contexts than those that exist in western cultures to me
are precisely IxD decisions.

And as for iconography and other presentation layers, these are precisely
about IxD.

Why is it IxDers are so focused on software? The keyboard, the display,
the sound. These are the primary interaction points and while I do think
it would be important to add the software side, (Gabriel, can you do
something about that?) I think there is a lot to learn in this
presentation about doing broad research for consumer electronics across
different cultures.

My favorite thing was that "It's important for a phone to ring during a
wedding." G-d! I loved that!
1. Weddings are so common that it is worthy of a research note. I mean I
don't get to more than 1 wedding every 5 years or so.
2. That it is so counter my US-centric sensibilities to make sure a phone
can be heard in a Wedding.

Just love it!

-- dave


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