I single handedly designed from scratch the Microsoft Office Communicator Mobile for all the Java and Nokia S60 platform phones. This was the first mobile version of Office Communicator (Currently called Skype for Business).
This project started the Microsoft / Nokia collaboration which eventually led to the buyout and we all know what happened next!
This is a non – touch interface.
I created the wireframes , final designs, flows , final visual design guidelines , created fully working FlashLite prototypes coded in Actionscript 3 in the mobile and usability tested them with end users in Seattle.
I decided to make a fully functional prototype for testing. But how do you make a communication and messaging app in a prototype. I created a fake AI chat bot in Actionscript which would converse with the users testing the application in a dynamic flow matched to the usability questions.
After 8 years when I was playing with Google DialogFlow I realized that in 2008 I was creating “Intents” for conversational AI by figuring out how a sentence could be written in hundreds of ways and then coding it in “If – Then ” loops. Life is all about connecting the dots in hindsight !
I also created the original download websites (www. getcomo.com )
The project was launched and had high adoption till Android took over the world.
Communication and Collaboration has a lot of modalities. Here was some brainstorming sketches I did to get buy in for some of the modes.
Below is the Java version for feature phones (Mostly Nokia)
I also created the original download websites (www. getcomo.com )
Why are there so less screens and flows ? Because I dont know where I kept them and in which hard disk 🙂
There was no cloud backup prevalent that time !