Nokia Kinetic flexes for navigation

Posted by sheryl in Trend Watching on October 29, 2011

Now this device is strange… It’s part of Nokia’s research team’s exploration into flexible displays and screens. So it’s flexible, and uses flexing movements to navigate. The reviewer tells us it actually feels quite intuitive… it’s interesting to watch, but I don’t know if I’m 100% sold. Touching and swiping seems so much easier!

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Google TV 2.0

Posted by sheryl in Trend Watching on October 29, 2011

Looks like they took my advice and realised Search is not the only way people want to find content!

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Microsoft’s Future Vision

Posted by sheryl in Trend Watching on October 29, 2011

Microsoft’s Vision Of The Future Includes Touch-Sensitive Everything (And Beautiful People Only) | TechCrunch.

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NDS Snowflake 2012 – YouTube

Posted by sheryl in Trend Watching on October 29, 2011

NDS Snowflake 2012 – YouTube.

Updated version of NDS Snowflake as shown at IBC this year.

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Google preps original YouTube channels

Posted by sheryl in Trend Watching on October 29, 2011

Google gets ready to play traditional TV, preps original YouTube channels — Engadget.

Interesting news on YouTube’s next play – they’re putting a lot of money into creating these “online channels” and even leveraging Hollywood star power. Makes me wonder if this will work – I’ve always thought there’s still a place for traditional linear

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UX Australia: Shaping the future of the BBC News for the connected home

Posted by sheryl in Conferences, Presentations, UX Australia on October 26, 2011

This is the main conference presentation I co-presented with Massive’s Creative Director, Derek Ellis. I had a lot of fun presenting this one, which, unfortunately for us was up against the amazing Jon Kolko in the other room. Oh well! We still managed to fill the room nonetheless.

Audio is not yet available, but I’ll

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UX Australia: The Upside of Stakeholder Involvement

Posted by sheryl in Conferences, Presentations, UX Australia on October 26, 2011

This is the 10 min talk I gave at UX Australia. I’m going to try and sync up the audio and slides a little later

Thanks to UX Australia for the opportunity. The page on the official site: Visit UX Australia Website

The abstract: Cognitive psychology provides insights into the minds of our end

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