Raise your virtual hand if you think Nokia should hire this designer... (who by the way is looking for work according to his website)

[ezcola]

Raise your virtual hand if you think Nokia should hire this designer... (who by the way is looking for work according to his website)

I don't have any ties or connection to this person what so ever but I have to say I was impressed with the design ideas and even more with the process how he got the ideas that he then turned into concepts. This sounds like true way of getting feedback and turning them into something more concrete...

"Since Mozilla Labs launched the Concept Series (http://mozillalabs.com/conceptseries) with an open call for participation (http://mozillalabs.com/conceptseries) we’ve had thousands of people join in, share ideas and develop concepts around Firefox, the Mozilla projects and the Open Web as a whole.


In response to our open call Billy May (http://www.billy-may.com/), in early 2009, produced a throw-away concept for an “Open Web Concept Phone” (http://mozphone.com/). Working directly off of that community feedback, Billy has since finished the exploration with his concept “Seabird”."

Here is the youtube video for the people who don't want to go see it from the Mozilla project site...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG3tLxEQEdg

http://mozillalabs.com/conceptseries/files/2010/09/seabird_1.jpg



http://mozillalabs.com/conceptseries/files/2010/09/seabird_2.jpg



http://mozillalabs.com/conceptseries/files/2010/09/seabird_3.jpg



For more info go check out the following links:



http://mozillalabs.com/conceptseries/2010/09/23/seabird/


http://www.billy-may.com/



Best regards,
ezcola

[imperiallight]

Only thing I liked was the "split screen projection" of the keyboard and mini touch pad, the layout (not the projection idea) is one I had not seen before.

[tissot]

I don't know. I keep seeing these great looking concepts and that's that. Maybe these guys haven't just met realities yet, but i do like some of the ideas.
Anyways i love the current industrial design Nokia got going with E7, N8(and seems to be hitting N9 too) so design for me is one of the last things Nokia needs to improve IMO.

Btw Nokia got something in that direction in 2007.
The Nokia Eco Concept.
http://www.ecosalon.com/data/uploads/47993d8389401.jpg

[ezcola]

Only thing I liked was the "split screen projection" of the keyboard and mini touch pad, the layout (not the projection idea) is one I had not seen before.

Yeah... I my self wasn't really into many of the actual design elements like the "hump-back" but the fact that there has been some serious out-of-the-box thinking and using the vast idea-resources of actual first hand feedback from the commenters was the thing that resonated to me with this project and designer.

[Stskeeps]

I vote they hire wazd instead.

[ezcola]

I don't know. I keep seeing these great looking concepts and that's that. Maybe these guys haven't just met realities yet, but id o like some of the ideas.
Anyways i love the current industrial design Nokia got going with E7, N8(and seems to be hitting N9 too) so design for me is one of the last things Nokia needs to improve IMO.

Btw Nokia got something in that direction in 2007.
The Nokia Eco Concept.
http://www.ecosalon.com/data/uploads/47993d8389401.jpg

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Yes, I agree that it is sad to see many brilliant concept ideas for mobile devices and in all technology that will just "never" see the light of day due to technical limitations or (even sader) company politics and bureaucracy...

I also like the new sleek and simplified look and feel of the new Nokia line of devices.

I hadn't seen this concept... looks interesting. I have to take a look.

[fms]

You can draw any device your artistic abilities allow. Drawing stuff is easy. It is building stuff that usually causes the most problems, considering the available battery dimensions and capacity, antennas placement, the current state of nanoprojection technology, and so forth. Once you consider all these factors, the Searbird becomes just what it is - a drawing made by an arts student.

[daperl]

Interesting, but how would you video chat with this thing?

[ossipena]

absolutely not! those projection keyboards are the worst keyboards right after banging a computer case with hammer to input text....

e: should nokia hire me if I manage to scrape up a phone looking model that is 0,5mm thick, with full 105 char physical kb? Then I just add a note with specs: fullHDx4 aka 4K screen, 50000000 lumen projector with same resolution, surpasses modern super computers with its hw and has 100 year battery duration with 3g+wlan constantly @max tx/rx? In addition I can use Catia so I must be hired!

[jd4200]

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I would love to see a post where you write it with a happy smile.

[Creamy Goodness]

Nokia should hire someone to fix all the bugs we find, and if they hire a designer it better be an engineer to figure out how to fit a bigger battery in these things... then maybe i can check email and answer phone calls without wanting to throw my phone through a wall. Nokia needs to concentrate on the basics, then worry about this other stuff later.

[timwatt]

Nokia's problem is not good or bad design* the image posted by tissot is great ID. The Problem is integrating ID, Hardware and Software with services and leveraging a strategic design vision. Having designed a couple of phones I can say the client always gets what they ask for.

* my bet Nokia has employed the best design consultancies and spent the most on phone design out of any manufacturer to date, the problem is they have a pour practical design vision.

My bet is there was a visionary at nokia who pushed maemo (admit he had no ID budget or maybe experience) and that person was given the opportunity to make maemo bosom and had it riped away from him just as it started to sprout.