We've been lucky enough to be selected to work with the Silverlight team to build out a pre-release concept mobile User Interface using this new technology.
It's been great fun, and the perfect project to implement our ribot process, right from start to finish. Look out for our work when Silverlight for Mobile gets publicly demoed sometime in the next year...
We've been working closely with the team to take their ideas to the next level, going through our ribot process; from initial sketch concepts, to wireframes, user testing, visual design and a final working prototype.
The final deliverable was very well received; we've since developed a great relationship with Lastminute.com Labs and are now working closely with them on a number of other top-secret projects in their pipeline...
Working closely with their design team, Ribot is providing its expertise in interaction and visual design to help take two of Orange's current research products into fruition...
Due to the nature of the work, we can't disclose too much about it, but we're having fun with Orange and getting a lot out of working with their top notch interaction designers and usability experts.
We've developed a strong understanding of user interface customisation for a range of phones, allowing us to provide a strong platform upon which we can share such knowledge.
The front screen was really important for us on this one; we really wanted to grab peoples' attention, so we ended up going for a four-colour Damien Hurst-style polkadot matrix design, based upon the four maths topics in the application.
Designing a complex maths-based font system for a range of small screen sizes was a challenge, but we worked well with FP on coming up with a tasty little solution.
First of all, it's a good simple idea - the application exists to provide an easy, visual guide to your daily spending habits. We plan to add budgets later...
Second, it allows us to test out and improve our design processes - wireframing ideas we've picked up, iterative processes we'd like to better or build upon.
Third, we'd like to open it up and expose the processes we went through to develop the ideas and functionality, to show what we can do and to hopefully get people thinking about their own ideas and how they can best put them into practice.