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Download our very own Android 1.6 wireframe stencil add-on for OmniGraffle 5.x.  This is the exact tool we use to create wireframes for our Android customers.  As part of the UX community, we believer in sharing the tools of the trade.  Wireframe stencils like this one help us visualize and mock up mobile designs and [...]

It was an interesting week in mobile.  This past Tuesday we saw the culmination of the “Flash on the iPhone” debate with an open letter by Steve Jobs on the homepage of the Apple website… http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/ We quickly saw a response by Adobe cofounders John Warnock and Chuck Geschke… http://www.adobe.com/choice/ Jobs openly denounced Flash as [...]

A recent summary article by Reuters, “Will Solar Speed up Emerging Cell Phone Revolution?“, does a nice job of capturing the current realities and future potential of solar powered cell phones in developing economies.  The correspondents quote Abdul Bayes, an economics professor from Bangladesh’s Jahangirnagar University, delivering a very powerful statement that is very familiar [...]

This set of slides focuses on presenting the role of User Experience (UX) design in web projects. This is a step by step review of deliverables that are available to a designer, client, and team. Presented to Graphic Design students at Suffolk University in October 2009 What Is User Experience (UX) design? View more presentations [...]

Part of a series of presentations for design students focusing on the web process and UX; I am including the link here for the first set of slides. Please enjoy and share. *Updated -  I just created an audio track for the slides. Please Enjoy! Careers In Web Design View more presentations from Marlin Mobile. [...]

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Social influence marketing became a topic this week within the Marlin Mobile executive team.  This week we attended the workshop: Why Social Media is Critical to B2B Companies’ Success hosted by 451 Marketing; a marketing agency focused on social influence marketing. The topics ranged from using social media platforms to create brand awareness to lead generation.  [...]

Verizon recently announced it is creating its own cross-platform app store that will ship with its phones…and will only ship with their own app store installed: http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=7EF200BA-1A64-6A71-CE5297EFB356998F The Verizon App Store will not block access out of the box to other app stores in its purview, specifically the Blackberry App World, Microsoft’s Windows Marketplace for [...]

NTT DoCoMo is elaborating on its planned 4G push, which is targeted for availability in 2010.  For more info, check out this article by the Financial Times and this post on GoMo News… I find their decision to make 4G data consumption unlimited from the start very intriguing.  I am curious how wide spread that model will [...]

Came across this blog post on SitePoint that made an impression…”15 Companies That Really Get Corporate Blogging“.  As the Marlin Mobile blog (…and the company) find its way, I hope we take cues from several of these great examples yet create a unique identity that our readers find compelling.  While we are passionate about the [...]