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.

Nokia gesture design video (and live research in London)

LONDON, England – Designing gestures to help you interact with your device in intuitive ways is a challenge that Nokia is grabbing with both hands and welcoming with a respectful bow. Younghee Jung is one of Nokia’s explorative designers, and she’s keenly leading the design investigation process into what makes a gesture work in real life and what it means to real people from different countries and cultures.

In this video Younghee explains more about what goes into designing gestures for Nokia devices, and conducts some live research on the streets of London, speaking to local people and equipping them with a plastic mono-block phone prop, to find out how they would use gestures for certain tasks. Click through to catch the full video and find out how folk reacted.

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Rain doesn’t dampen first 5800 customers’ spirits

LONDON, England – The bad weather didn’t dampen spirits at this morning’s 5800 launch on London’s Regent Street. Nokia staff were on hand to ensure the gathering crowds stayed both warm and dry. For those without protection, Nokia umbrellas were handed out (no, we’re not sure about the colour either) along with hand warmers to help stave off the elements.

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Nokia 5800 XpressMusic goes on sale in UK flagship store

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LIVE FROM LONDON

LONDON, England - We’re here live from London and Tero Ojanperä and Jo Harlow are on stage introducing us to the event. The crowds are gathered and seated, and the introductions are being made. Jo is head of music devices whilst Tero, as we’re well aware, runs the music and entertainment side of things for Nokia.