interface innovation
We’re on the look out for a talented designer to join our team here in our Brighton studios. We’ve crafted a short deck that should give a good overview of who we are and what we’re looking for.
Essentially, you’ll need a number of skills, but your attitude is most important. We look forward to hearing from you.
On the 16th September 2011, we’ll be joining Brian Leroux of PhoneGap fame, James Pearce (Sencha Inc) and a whole host of other speakers who will be talking at The Future of Mobile in London.
We’ll be talking on the subject of “Designing for Different Screen Sizes”, which is a subject very close to our hearts here at ribot. For all our readers/followers we’ve also got a promo code which gives 10% off the official ticket price – please quote FOM-10.
Enjoy!
Announced yesterday by Mobile Entertainment, O2 BlueVia have sponsored a project to find the UK’s top 50 mobile innovators. We’re very happy to discover our own name in the list!
Congratulations also go out to our favourite Android keyboard friends at Touch-Type, UsTwo (of Mouth Off fame) and fellow Brightonians Future Platforms and ParcelGenie.
Touchtype has completely refreshed its next-generation AI keyboard and, with a little help from ribot designer Ben, have released two new versions of the stunning Swiftkey app.
Now available as Swiftkey X and Swiftkey Tablet X the apps add even better personalisation, advanced prediction and machine-learning options as well as a host of new UI improvements.
It turns out that nearly all mobile keyboard users fall into two types; those who like to be precise and watch for the phone’s predictive suggestions and those who like to type words quickly and ignore the odd typo. Swiftkey X now gives you the opportunity to fine-tune the app to match your prefered style.
Since the early beta Swiftkey has long been recognised as an uncannily accurate and speedy text prediction app—often allowing text sentences to be completed with single taps. The spooky predictive power originally came from analysing the content of your outgoing SMS messages but this ability to anticipate your words is now further enhanced with analysis of your personal writing style directly from your Facebook, Twitter and Gmail accounts.
The new app works on a range of screen sizes and resolutions and with light, dark and neon options Ben’s new themes look gorgeous on both phones and tablets. ribot also spent time streamlining the UI, installation and app setup. It’s almost worth downloading just to enjoy the lovely new installation screens!
People’s day is a local celebration designed to bring different local communities together. The event will take place this Saturday 18th June between 10am and 6pm in and around Pavilion Gardens. Visitors can enjoy more than fifty different activities with everything from face painting and sports to world food and theater. But, most importantly, Threedom will have a special stand in the Discovery zone.
Tara, Antony, Ben, and Jason will all be running around in shiny new yellow Threedom t-shirts, giving away Threedom pins and showing off our lovely Threedom phones. There will also be a very special competition where you can draw your ideal phone with the grand prize being your very own Threedom phone!
Pop yourself along and have a great time, we’ll also have some delicious Threedom cakes for your enjoyment and an exciting unveiling of something brand new…
Our nice friends at Google have been demoing Just One More at Google I/O, their annual tech summit in San Francisco.
They’re specifically interested in how we were able to create a convincing multi-device (mobile and tablet) experience using purely web technologies.
Check out the clip below for more.
More info on the talk given by messrs Meier and Mahemoff here.
It’s been long-anticipated by the android community, but this morning we can finally announce that the new ribot-designed Tesco app for Android has gone live!
Along with the infamous ability to quickly scan products around you, you can now talk products into your shopping basket using the new voice search functionality.
We’re confident that this is the best Tesco Groceries app yet, setting the benchmark for grocery shopping on mobile for some time to come!
Congrats to the great and growing ribot / Tesco team that worked so hard on the project: Ben, Alex, Becky, Owen, Hilda, Chitra, Kishan, Kamal, Rashmi, Sreelatha, Smita and Jerome.
We’ve had fantastic responses to our Threedom project and yesterday we sent a registration link for all those who were interested in the Threedom beta.
If you’ve not yet taken a look at Threedom phone for Android you can register your interest in the Threedom beta here.
We’re not yet ready to release the beta-version into the wild but so many of you were interested in having a play with Threedom we’ve decided to invite a small group of enthusiastic alpha testers to help us prepare for launch.
We’re looking for a wide-range of testers (not just mobile-industry experts) so if you or anyone you know has an Android device and would like to use it with a brand new interface, designed to help people with dexterity problems, then please register today at ThreedomPhone.com — we’ll send you a link to the alpha registration form and ask a few questions to find out a bit more about you and your device.
Our dear friends over at Nitobi (the makers of PhoneGap) have chosen to showcase JustOneMore as one of the PhoneGap case studies.
Our very own Rob is interviewed and gives his viewpoint on why we chose PhoneGap over competitors. Enjoy!
JustOneMore is available to download from the iTunes App Store.
Last week, at the 2011 Wired Health event (organised by digital community innovators Wired Sussex), we announced Threedom our 3 button phone app, which is now ready for its next phase — feedback from the community.
Launching exclusively on Android, Threedom is the first simple interface built to allow anyone to easily use a touchscreen mobile. Despite being “smart”, many mobiles are still unusable for large numbers of users; devices are often too complex, or the person doesn’t have the dexterity to use all its features.
Threedom offers a unique, chunky 3-button interface that allows for easy navigation through contacts, texts, music, photos and more.
We’ve launched a single-page website to gather contact details for those who are interested and, in a few weeks, we’ll be sending out invitations to download the application. After we’ve gathered feedback and tweaked the experience, we’ll be ready to launch to the rest of the world!
Visit ThreedomPhone.com to register your interest. We’re looking forward to your feedback!
