We specialise in: user experience, interaction design, visual design; and rapid prototyping for small screen devices.
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Onwards and upwards for little spender! We’ve just been notified that we’ve won the lifestyle category of the Flash Lite Developer Challenge and with that $15,000 US.
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.
We’ve just been notified that little spender, our expense tracking app has been nominated as one of the finalists in the Flash Lite Developer Challenge!
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!
This year’s MEX Mobile User Experience Conference was the second year of our attendance, and this time we decided to enter our first app into the awards. We were delighted to be selected as finalists in the “professional” category, happy that our work was valued by industry experts. However, we were shocked, albeit jumping for joy, when it was announced that we were the winners of our category!
“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.
We have been contacted by the organisers of the MEX Mobile User Experience Awards to inform us that “Little Spender has been short-listed for a 2009 MEX Mobile User Experience Award in the Professional category”!
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.
Behind the scenes, we’ve been little busy bees, working with the team at dotMobi on their fantastic plug-in pack for Wordpress that helps you mobilise your Wordpress site and blog.
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.
On April 28th and 29th we’ll be attending the very first Nokia Developer Summit. Set amongst lavish boats and generously-sized langoustines, the conference takes place in the heart of Monaco at the Grimaldi Forum.
If you’re attending, we’d be more than happy to meet up and chat with you about mobile design and all the other lovely things to do with mobile. Follow us on twitter at http://twitter.com/ribot or send us a txt on +447882 569299.
For more information about the event: Nokia Developer Summit 2009.
As one of the attendees of this month’s Mobile Design UK event, we were asked by the organising team and Marek Pawlowski, organiser of MEX the following competition question:
“What is the biggest challenge faced by designers trying to improve the mobile user experience?”
To which we responded with:
“The awareness in knowing what is actually possible and not to assume that what has been created in the past sets unbreakable rules which should be abided by. Ask questions and don’t be just a ‘designer’; be aware of other people’s roles and make the most of them.”
To our surprise, this response was chosen as the winning answer, awarded with a scholarship place at this year’s MEX conference! MEX - the Mobile User Experience conference will be celebrating its 5th year in May and we’re extremely happy to have the chance to mingle and learn from 100 of the industry’s most creative thinkers.
The conference is a sell-out every year and there’s still a few remaining places available (as of 27th April 2009).
Yay! We are very pleased to announce that one of the mobile applications we designed won an award! The Rough Guides Mobile Travel Guide won its category (Entertainment & Leisure) in the Navteq challenge in the US. The award was announced at a ceremony during CTIA Wireless 2009 in Las Vegas.
The Rough Guides Mobile Travel Guide is a location-aware city guide with all the lovely user-generated content and social networking features we’ve come to expect in this day and age, and a little more…
Our very own little spender and co-founder Antony Ribot feature in the official O2 Innovation Day video.
O2 Innovation day from ribot on Vimeo.
The video also contains an interview with James Parton, head of O2 Litmus, on what the day entailed and O2’s forward-thinking strategy.
It’s certainly a sign of the times when UK design magazine, Computer Arts publishes a 36 page guide to mobile design.
As part of the guide, we’ve provided a short step-by-step process for mobilising your desktop sites. Some general tips combined with sample code help provide some guidelines for the building process.
The April issue (#160) of Computer Arts is out now.