Tag Archives: mobile

FreshDirect iPhone App

March 3, 2010 – 8:02 PM

Popular NY grocery delivery service, FreshDirect, recently launched their long-anticipated iPhone app with the help of Schematic. Alex Rainert shared some great insights about the design process on his blog, everydayUX.  Chris Bray, Director of Technology at Schematic, has a great summary of the project as well. There is also a Wall Street Journal’s article [...]

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New Vision Based Mobile Interface

January 21, 2010 – 6:51 PM

A team at Tokyo University recently developed a device that translates in-air finger movement to input commands so that the device can be used without physically touching the screen. Unlike Sixth Sense, this system does not require surrounding sensors or finger markers. According to Gigazine in an article translated from the original Japanese, [...]

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Miele Inspirience Center

December 4, 2009 – 5:06 PM

I recently came across an interesting interactive retail experience in The Netherlands from Miele called the Miele Inspirience Center (I’ll withhold comment on the pun.) Miele manufactures and sells a wide variety of residential appliances and commercial equipment.

Because they are a high-end durable goods maker, the purchase decision for their products is a fairly reasoned [...]

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Exploring the Sixth Sense

October 21, 2009 – 5:18 PM

Wow, the ramping up of Schematic Touch has been a lot busier than expected, and this blog has clearly suffered from a lack of time. But I’ve been making lots of notes about relevant items so I’m planning to post about a lot of the things we’ve missed over the last few months.
One that I [...]

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Special Agent OSO’s Text to Call

April 22, 2009 – 5:21 PM

I have young children who obviously have access to a lot of digital interactivity so I find it interesting to see what connects with them. My 4 year old (Lucas) always notices a dot com address and asks to go to the website when we get to a computer and my 2 year old (Marcus) [...]

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