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.

Behind the new Nokia homescreen – video update

LONDON, England – Last month we had a look behind the new Nokia homescreen, and spoke to the Nokia designers on the frontline of innovating this aspect of our devices. That story struck a chord with many of you, with heaps of great comments flooding in, so we thought we’d follow up with this new video that sees designers Juliana Ferreira and Lee Cooper explain how Nokia went about designing the new homescreen as seen on the N97 and the methods and prototypes they used in their research. Click through to watch the full video behind the new Nokia homescreen.

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Nokia N97 Facebook Demo

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Design issues with home screen personalization

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Nokia N97 homescreen video

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Exploring the Nokia N97 homescreen – video close-up

GLOBAL – This Friday sees the Nokia N97 officially touchdown on UK soil, so in the run-up to its launch we thought we’d highlight a smart new video showcasing its widget-savvy homescreen.

Tomorrow, we’ll be posting a video that focusses on the Facebook app in action on N97, following up with a separate video on Friday featuring an interesting chat we had with the designers behind the new Nokia N97 homescreen.

In the meantime, click through to watch this short close-up clip of the new N97 homescreen doing its thing.

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Stepping behind the Nokia homescreen

LONDON – We’re here at Nokia’s design event in London, The Inside Story, and user interface designers Juliana Ferreira and Lee Cooper have just given us an interesting look at what goes into designing Nokia homescreens, and highlight just how significant the homescreen is for most of us. Click through to find out what happens behind the scenes at Nokia for the designers exploring new ways to improve the homescreen interface.

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Nokia 5630 XpressMusic video

GLOBAL – Since this morning’s arrival of the new Nokia 5630 XpressMusic, we’ve been lucky enough to get hands-on with the slimline feature-laden handset.

The clip is currently sat in our ‘recent videos’ box, over to the right, so make sure you click on it for an up-close preview of the interface, and see the smart new contacts bar on the homescreen in action.

We’ve also embedded the video in this article after the jump, so you’ll be able to find it easily when it drops off the recent videos slot. Hit play!
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