Nokia launches a User Experience Portal

“To provide developers with guidance, best practices, and tools that enable efficient application development and optimized user experience, Forum Nokia has created a new user experience portal. Topics covered on the portal include quality, usability and user experience, power management, testing and signing, and porting. Developers who study and apply this information can gain a competitive edge and produce the next generation of outstanding mobile applications.”

They also note: “In a highly competitive market, a positive user experience is THE key differentiator for successful products.”

A great step in the right direction, but kinda concerning that their Tip of the Day is “User should be able to skip completed levels”. I look forward to seeing this section develop.

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Last night I bought Domain Names

So over the weekend I was thinking about things, specifically around the amount of work I am doing in the field of mobile user experience. My consulting business, Ideal Interfaces (old site & blog), is doing very well and will definitely keep on going, but there is also a need to more clearly brand the mobile work that I am doing.

With that in mind I bought www.mobileuxp.com and www.mobileuxp.com.au (nothing there yet) to provide a digital home for my mobile focussed thoughts and experiences. Although the term won’t be overly familiar to most, UXP is a common abbreviation for ‘User Experience’ and it’s relatively short

Let’s see where this goes…

Update: After writing this post I realised I should have bought MobileCXP as well, for Mobile Customer Experience. So I got www.mobilecxp.com and .com.au…
Update 2: Then I thought maybe mobilecustomerexperience.com is also available, and it was. So now I have it and .com.au as well
Now which one to use as the main one?

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