Design
Peek behind the curtain of Nokia’s design studio in London
By Mike on 17 July 2009
GLOBAL – Over the past month we’ve been granted rare access, fascinating insight and candid chat related to a bunch of innovative design projects taking place at Nokia’s design studio in London. It’s certainly one of the Nokia hotspots for design innovation. From gesture and homescreen ingenuity to icon creation and the craft of “making communication more human” (as told to us recently by Axel Meyer, head of Nseries design at Nokia), our recent exposure to the design studio in London has painted an engrossing picture of what happens behind the curtain and how the people at Nokia holding the crayons go about bringing new devices and experiences to life.
We’ve herded together a collection of recent videos featuring some of the passionate and creative folk at the Nokia design studio in London. Get a glimpse of how it all happens and some of the thinking behind a number of recent design projects.
Here’s a video interview with Mark Delaney, a design director at Nokia, as he talks about design choices and directions related to Nokia products. He also gives some insights into specific products >>
Nokia designers Younghee Jung and Joe Macleod talk about mobile gesture design and the smart prototypes used to test new gestures for real >>
Earlier this week we also brought you a follow-up video from Younghee Jung that sees her explaining more about gesture design and conducting live research on the streets of London >>
Head of Nokia Nseries design, Axel Meyer, chats to us about flagship products and touches on the Nokia N97 >>
Nokia designers Juliana Ferreira and Lee Cooper tell us about personalisation and the creation of the new Nokia homescreen as found on the N97 >>
Juliana and Lee also followed up this week with a video talking further about their research and design approach here >>
Here’s a video of the N97 homescreen in action >>
And finally here’s a video we posted yesterday that sees Nokia designer Rob Williams give us an insight into the craft of creating icons >>
Let us know what you think in the comments section below.
Related posts:
- Nseries head of design talks flagships, super-humans and Nokia N97
- Nokia gesture design video (and live research in London)
- Mobile gesture design at Nokia – developing a new dialect of interaction
Tags | Axel Meyer, Gestures, homescreen, Icons, Joe Macleod, Juliana Ferreira, Lee Cooper, London, London Design Studio, Mark Delaney, Rob Williams, Younghee Jung
August 30th, 2009 at 4:44 pm
Nokia Turkey. Do you speak Turkish?.
are you have Turkey customer support?
I want to new nokia cellphone design. But I don’t know speak English…
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October 6th, 2009 at 4:41 am
on the videos, displayed up there, you are reformulating the fact of changing the home screen, based on individual taste, thats a good idea, but waht about re designing the most common menus, in fact i had a n73, and now an express music 5800, both of them, keep the oldfashion design, it was good, could be better, now, with the auto-rotation display, we still get the old design, whats wrong?
-for a bigger display we get less space, because the size of the buttons, and in landscape design, the buttons are resized getting less space than portrait design.
SOLUTION:if we can get square buttons and Icons, instead of texts(like exit, options, etc), we can retain design for portrait or landscape design, and improving display space.
-in the menu area, the matrix good idea getting squares, but the text besides is innecesary, getting double information, and less space, of course more memory consuming.
-the top data, hour, aaplication information, signal strength, battery power, etc, are using a lot of space, only for keeping the old style, in fact most of the aplications, have a small area to work, like internet navigation, calculator, and others lacks of small working area, because of the size of the aplication buttons, plus the top marquee design.
-and at the end but no the less, the typing i dont know about the programmable touching area, but if we can get smaller and inner offset sensitive area by button, we can get faster tipying, so we dont loss any type, or we dont get the wrong key.
thanks anyway for such a good product, and for understand my poor english.
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October 8th, 2009 at 1:54 am
Nice videos, extremely interesting. I like Nokia phones because they are more intuitive to use and therefore friendlier than most others. Packing a phone with numerous technical features like a S60, GPS, MP3 player, autofocus carl zeiss lens camera, noise reduction, memory, etc… is fantastic but also it’s a necessary reflection of our times. Now, I also like a phone “case” design to be minimalist, sleek, discreet but made of top high tech materials. I was therefore wondering if genuine titanium (covers), carbon fiber (chassis, vacuum/stove molded) and saphire glass (screen) could not be used to make a thin, very light luxury but high specs phone ? I feel that like the Arte 8800 phones, the 8800 Erdo will remain heavy, which is unfortunate since weight is another consideration. Last year and until now I use the 5310 Express Music since it was the lightest I could find and it passed my “suit test” with flying colours; a heavy phone feels very unconfortable in any fine suit pocket which feels like having a bag in one’s jacket or trousers… Why not make an expensive high tech but robust and feather light phone ? I was also wondering if an icon design luxury “case” could not also be conceived genuinely as a “case” in a way that some or all of the internals could be replaced as an upgrade in a Nokia shop. The swap could also be made environmentally friendly since the older but functioning internals could be encased in standard cases and donated or sold for charity… Why not ?
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