Design Your Own Smart Phone with Nokia
Nokia is really connecting people with their new “design by community” system wherein users will be allowed to vote for a number of smart phone features through a poll. The users will be able to choose which aspects they like in a certain category and move the poll slider to add an arbitrary point to that feature. Every poll will be dedicated to one category. The poll next week will focus on size and shape, the next will be about materials, then about operating system, so on and so forth until May of this year comes.
Nokia seems out to get their users feedback on what they want in a smart phone. They segregated the sections to prevent people from creating an unfeasible phone. Every week, the tally will be posted as well as the top choices for each finished category to serve as the basis for the next poll.
Every week, Nokia designers and bloggers will be giving some insight regarding the updates as well as insider info about the production process involved. At the end of the polls, the Nokia design team will be posting some concept sketches and will then be turned into another public poll. The winning design will be rendered and then revealed in Nokia’s “Conversations”.
The actual goal is not to launch the voted concept but simply to show the public the amount of thought process and effort it takes to come up with a final product. Although this is a nice touch from Nokia, it would be nice if they actually got some of the feedback and made it into a final product (yes, considering the amount of time and effort). But who knows right? The fact that they even got the idea means that they want to pay attention to user demands and hear it straight.
Read more about Nokia’s Design by Community at Engadget.
