Nokia Conversations release "Design by Community"

Published by David Gilson at 11:17 UTC, March 16th 2010

Nokia have opened a crowd sourcing initiative, "Design by Community", to find out what form customers would like future Nokia phones to take. Each week, members of the public can vote on different aspects of mobile phone design. See below for all the details and links.

This week, Nokia's official blog, "Nokia Conversations", has opened up a community project, called "Design by Community", to ask members of the public to shape the future development of mobile phone design.

The website states:

"Do you want to help create a smartphone concept device of the future? Between March and May 2010 we want to harness the collective thoughts of the Conversations readership to map out a concept device of the future. This isn't just about creating the next-gen smartphone, we want you to think beyond that. To avoid creating some kind of unweildy beast, we've created a six-step process where you get to vote for the features and functions you think are most important"

During each week of the initiative, people will be able to vote on aspects of a distinct category of smartphone design. The schedule for voting is as follows:

  • 15th March - Display & User Interface
  • 22nd March - Size & Shape
  • 29th March - Materials
  • 5th April - Operating System
  • 12th April - Connectivity
  • 19th April - Camera
  • 26th April - Enhancements

The voting takes the form of a series of sliders which users adjust as they see fit, each slider relates to an aspect of a design category.

Design by Community voting sliders

You can get involved here

David Gilson, AAS


 

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Unregistered
I see the idea, but what they are going to get is the opinion of the less than 0.001% of potential phone buyers that have a mind to look at Conversations. These are likely to have different preferences than normal people. If Nokia want to know what the conversations people want, they can just read the forums.

There's an opportunity coming up for the rabid xenonites to put their case when it's camera time!
malerocks
I think its a good effort, but instead of restricting it to Nokia Conversations, it should be available more openly to the public for voting. Conversations will have more techno and geek kinda crowd and their opinions may not always comply with what the general people want
Unregistered
It's not about what people want, but what people are willing to loose.

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