On March 18 2010, Orange Social Life won the mobile news award of the most innovative service
Launched in August 2009, Social Life has consistently attracted customers and offers a wide range of social networks integration.
Having worked on it since it’s very very early stages, it feels great to look at it and feel proud that we all made it!
I remember the day when my boss came around and asked my availabilities for ‘the months to come’ =) (more…)
Ok, it’s an internal award from our R&D innovation process in the UK, but still, a recognition is a recognition!
Thanks again to everyone that made the service to go live, all the users and everyone that judged the competition!
The mobile interface
The website
Sometimes you are requested to do a quick job at work, that “should not last longer than 2/3 days”.
We’ve all been there, all done it and in my case in R&D with Orange, seen too many times the “project” end up in a drawer somewhere.
However, this time, I have been assigned on that “little project” called snapshot, for which the goal was simple: our team racing designer was creating the graphical design and I was translating that into XHTML/CSS as well as XHTML-MP templates for mobiles as quickly as I could (more…)
Over the Air – 24 hours of mobile development and mobile conferences – September 25th – 26th 2009
This are my conference notes that I hopefully took correctly! (more…)
Attending the Over The Air conference 2009 in Imperial College London, I had the chance to assist to some very good sessions, including a cool workshop on designing mobile apps conducted by Thom Hume, MD of Future Platforms in Brighton.
Entitled ‘Many ways up the mobile mountain’, the topic was about following an iterative process to build an application for a specific character – intended to act as a market segment – and a specific mobile device.