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Imagine attending a very different sort of conference...MEX MEX is the two day strategy forum for the leading minds in mobile telecoms. The next event is in London on 27th - 28th May 2008. At the MEX conference, corporate pitches are outlawed. We bring together speakers with a genuine passion for their subject and give them a platform to share their insights. It is an event where the most experienced executives share the stage with the most innovative young talents. We create a unique environment in which everyone plays a role in setting the agenda, debating the future of mobile and learning how to put the customer at the heart of the mobile experience. The May 2008 conference is structured around our 10 point manifesto for enhancing the mobile user experience. This is a blueprint for delivering better mobile products through a deeper understanding of customer requirements. Some of our speakers include: Join us in London for two days of refreshingly different thinking on 27th and 28th May 2008. Delegate places are priced at GBP 1499. Read more... mex design competition
"Does your interface, idea or product delight customers and enhance the mobile user experience?" Find out more, read the full entry guidelines and enter on-line at:
http://www.mobileuserexperience.com/mexdesign/?page_id=35 What's it all about? The MEX Design Competition challenges the world's best developers, engineers and visionaries to showcase mobile products or concepts which focus on meeting the unique requirements of individual users. We believe every one of the industry’s 3 billion customers should feel their mobile user experience has been designed for them as an individual. The MEX Design Awards Entries are showcased in the MEX Design Competition gallery (mobileuserexperience.com/mexdesign/), a constantly updated on-line resource where the users can view, rate and comment on the submissions. The final judging decisions will be made by an expert panel and they'll be paying close attention to the entries favoured by the voting users. The winners will be honoured at the MEX Design Awards, an exclusive evening reception held on the opening night of the 4th annual PMN Mobile User Experience conference in London on 27th May 2008. MEX Design Awards will be presented in front of an elite audience of the top executives and leading thinkers in mobile. Enter your products, designs and ideas today The competition is open for entries today and all are welcome: students, freelancers, professionals and companies. Entry is via a simple, on-line form. There are no limitations on what you can submit to the MEX Design Competition - it is all about giving contestants the creative freedom to think about the mobile experience in different ways. Some examples might include…
Find out more, read the full entry guidelines and enter on-line at: http://www.mobileuserexperience.com/mexdesign/?page_id=35 discussion
Read the latest articles from PMN's Mobile User Experience blog and join in the debate:
The operator and manufacturer identity crisis This article and photo essay by Marek Pawlowski, founder of MEX and Editorial Director at PMN, explores the identity crisis currently affecting network operators and handset manufacturers. We live in confusing times, with handset manufacturers trying to become service providers and service providers battling with each other to offer the most stylish handsets. It seems [...] Student innovations at Made In Brunel This article by Marek Pawlowski, founder of MEX and Editorial Director at PMN, highlights the mobile innovations on display at the annual Brunel University graduate show in London. Brunel University is hosting it’s 4th annual ‘Made in Brunel‘ exhibition at the Islington Business Design Centre this week and there are several mobile innovations on show. [...] Reuters TV covers MEX Conference and Awards Reuters covered the MEX Awards and Conference in this television piece. Matt Cowan, Reuter’s technology correspondent, interviews Marek Pawlowski of PMN, Gus Desbarats of Alloy, Ken Blakeslee of WebMobility Ventures and Ben-Scott Robinson, designer of the BSR Blind Phone and winner of the 2008 MEX Mobile User Experience Innovator of the Year Award. MEX 2008, Day Two Summary This article by Marek Pawlowski, founder of MEX and Editorial Director at PMN, provides a summary of the second day’s proceedings at the MEX conference in London this week (27th - 28th May). This is part 2 of a 2 part summary. Read the first part here. The second day of the conference started [...] Day One, MEX 2008 & the winners of the MEX Awards This article by Marek Pawlowski, founder of MEX and Editorial Director at PMN, provides a summary of the first day’s proceedings at the MEX conference in London (27th - 28th May 2008) and announces the winners of the 2008 MEX Mobile User Experience Awards. This is part 1 of a 2 part summary. [...] What is the state of user experience on the eve of the 2008 MEX conference? This article by Marek Pawlowski, founder of MEX and Editorial Director at PMN, provides an overview of mobile user experience issues ahead of the MEX conference in London this week (27th - 28th May). As we prepare to welcome the industry to London for our 4th annual MEX conference this week, I’ve been taking some time [...] Short-list for the 2008 MEX Mobile User Experience Awards After lengthy review by the panel of independent judges (see below), we are delighted to release the short-lists for 2008 MEX Mobile User Experience Awards. The winners will be officially announced at a special evening reception in London on 27th May, the opening night of the 4th annual MEX conference. Congratulations to all those who [...] Video interviews: Mobile search requires a radically different approach in the mobile environment At the MEX 2008 conference, we’ll be looking at the user experience of mobile search from two rather different perspectives. One view will be given by Scott Jenson, who leads mobile UI development for search giant Google. The other will be provided by Steve Ives, CEO of mobile search start-up Taptu. Both will be [...] Design Competition Entry: Mix It Up The design of the whole program was created according to the psychology of potential users: what outfit they would have preferred, colors that would best match the context and interface that would be user-friendly overall. The result we got is the amazing application with a very useful functionality. As lots of people [...] Design Competition Entry: My Mobile Closet My concept has two main components. The first is a shortcode component where users are able to send an SMS (short message service) with item number to a designated shortcode # (41411 MYMC), thereby adding said item to their mobile closet for later use. The second component is the actual programmed application where users are [...] 
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