The girls at LadyGeek.tv also have a FaceBook page, where you can post feedback and questions and generally catch up with what they’ve been talking about and reviewing.

Enjoy!

This year’s event will again host the almost-legendary mobile competition, which has featured Lastminute.com’s phone fight, and Future Platform’s Project Bluebell. The event got coverage by the BBC last year.

Registration for the event, held in London on the 10th-11th September is now open. If you’d also like to give a talk they’re looking for speakers for a variety of different sessions.

Having worked closely with the Tesco folk (@angelamaurer, @rpatey, @nicklansley et al) over the last few months it’s great to see our app out there with a simple, engaging experience on Nokia touchscreen devices.

The app enables Tesco customers to create a shopping list, book delivery slots, add items to their basket then check out. But at the heart of the application is Tesco’s focus on allowing people to do their shopping ‘little and often’ so if you remember you need fresh Scotch Bonnet peppers (om nom nom) in your next delivery you can amend your current orders while you’re out and about.

We’ll be talking over the next few weeks about the design process and working with the lovely people within Tesco. There are a couple of small surprises around the corner as well which we’re quietly geeked about.

In the meantime Nick Lansley has a couple articles up about working with us (yay!) and why Tesco went Nokia before iPhone.

Stay tuned via Twitter or RSS.

Our adventure in France was eventful, featuring a fight with a feisty foreign seagull, a fish that played dead, a restaurant walk-out, an outdoor jacuzzi meeting and, of course, lots of lovely food. All too quickly was it time to board our boat for the return to English soil.

We look forward our next adventure!

You’ll be hearing a lot more on the what the client is launching later this year! Stay tuned.

Check it out at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-mobile-pack/. Our role was in designing some base mobile templates for the mobile WordPress experience.

It’s great to be involved in a collaborated effort. The project is the brainchild of @jamespearce and @andreatrasatti. If you’d like to help develop the plugin further, do consider joining the team. Other contributors include, @edent and Forum Nokia.

Let us know what you think!

Antony will be giving a presentation on the future of Mobile User Experience, with a focus on our changing behaviours, re-connection to physical interactions and how the boundary between mobile web and native app experiences is beginning to blur.

SparkUp is a one day conference, held in Poland on the 25th of May 2010. We look forward to meeting the attendees and practicing some of our Polish language skills (note: the presentation will be held in English – we’re not that good, yet).

For SparkUp 2010 conference updates, follow @sparkupconf.

So what is Dxtr? It’s an interface design concept for a simplified mobile experience, that anyone could use. It was created in response to research gathered on the touchscreen device experiences for people with dexterity impairment.

dxtr – 3 button mobile interface concept from ribot on Vimeo.

The 2010 Mobile User Experience Awards will be held on the evening of the 19th May during the seventh Mobile User Experience conference. Good luck to all the other MEX award finalists.

The 3 articles include a two-part tutorial by Jerome and Mark on how to ‘appify your mobile web experience’ and an in-depth 6 pager by Antony on the current state of the mobile landscape.

For more info, check out an overview of issue 202. .Net is available from all good magazine shops.

Rob brings to the team his expert understanding of the user experience, usability testing and his great Kiwi accent!

Some words from the man himself:

“Dead excited to be working as part of the Ribot family – as we explore new concepts, interactions and experiences in what is an incredibly personal context. I believe in designing not just for users but with users, imbuing interfaces with a sense of ease-of-use, empathy and delight.”

Fundamentally though, he’s also a really nice guy, and the team are all very happy to have him on board.

Follow his thoughts on twitter (@anucreative)

If you’re in the mobile industry, are interested in the future of mobile or involved in one of the crossover industries, it’s a must-attend event for you. With a great selection of speakers (including Doug Richard and Harald Neidhardt) and a selection of themes to provide focus. We’re counting down the days…

For more information, visit the mobile heroes site.

Later on in the day, we are providing one-to-one advice and feedback at the Wired Sussex and Brighton University Portfolio Clinic.

We’re looking forward to seeing you all there!

Ideally, we’re looking for people who have an N-Series Nokia phone (e.g. N95, N86, N78…), an iPhone or an iPodTouch. If you don’t have any other these devices, don’t worry. Sign up and we’ll notify you of additional handset support.

So, if you’re interested, do pop along to HeyLittleSpender.com and say hello.

If you’re on twitter, follow the team at @little_spender.

Ben graduated from UCA Maidstone as a graphic designer. A few words from the talented Mr Breckler:

“From my very first experiences as a designer, I have felt the urge to observe and understand the world that surrounds me. I consider design a vital aspect to improve quality of life in society. I therefore stand for functionality, purpose, and simplicity, which are reflected in my work and style.”

Great to have you on board Ben!

We’re extremely happy that a product as simple as little spender has been chosen as a finalist in the Smaato Mobile Advertising Awards 2009. Little spender is a fun and playful way to track your spending through mobile micro-experiences. Behind the scenes, there’s some “spending magic” going on, which in turn allows for contextually-relevant services to be offered to users.

As a finalist we have won a Dot.mobi Device Atlas license, which we’ll be putting to use very shortly.

To find out more about little spender, please take your seats, for the grand curtain is about to open at heyLittleSpender.com very shortly.

The winners will be announced at the awards ceremony in San Francisco, on the evening of the 15th October (tonight, as of writing this). We’d like to thank all the people behind the scenes of these awards. We can only try and imagine how much work has gone into this (We’re looking at you, Harald and team!).

Congratulations to all the other award winners too! There’s some great things going on in the Flash Lite world at the moment. Thank you to all who supported us and voted for us too.

Voting is now open to the public (quick registration required) and the winners will be announced on Wednesday 17th June (next week!). Good luck to all the nominees!

“The MEX Awards recognise the very best in customer-centred mobile design. With Little Spender, the Ribot team have innovated through simplicity and creativity, producing a tool ideally suited to the needs of their target users.” — Marek Pawlowski, Founder, MEX.

For more details about the awards, visit the MEX awards site.

This is great news for us, having put so much effort into designing and building an app that revolves around ease of use, longevity and playfulness. What one might have otherwise seen as a chore is, at least in this example, a satisfying and valuable consumer experience.

For more details, including a motion demo of little spender, check out our entry. The awards ceremony takes place on the evening of Tuesday 19th May after the first day of the MEX Mobile User Experience conference in London.

There are many components in the toolkit, and ribot focused on the look and feel of the “mobile blog”, supplying a number of default themes. These will hopefully provide you with a lovely starting-point for your new-look, Wordpressed-up mobile site.

For more details, see the official dotMobi Wordpress mobile pack article.