Softphones to inspire mobile user interfaces
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It’s called symbiosis. Instant messengers move into mobile phone toolkit ― we bet they will become the next user interface within the next 16 months ― and mobile phone designers got inspired by current IM functionalities.
Ana Camila Pinho Amorim has designed a very promising communication platform. Uni.me, his graduate project at Interaction Design Institute Ivrea in Milan, Italy is a mobile phone service that combines availability status over the line and social networking. It’s like if you were using Skype, Yahoo! Messenger or GTalk and know what friends are added in your MySpace network.
The simple interface shows white and blue bubbles. White bubbles are people available to chat, blue ones aren’t. The light halo circle represents the user’s social network, as gets expanded as the users become more popular.
When you want to initiate a call, “Uni.me provides voice, text and data connection using other service provider infrastructures to operate,” says the project presentation (in PDF, via experientia). “It can be accessed through any WiFi enabled device and be operated from anywhere in the world.” The Uni.me team is talking about using Skype mobile version at a first move.
Jun 12, 2006 | By Nuno
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