This post is truly inspired, ohh and well, before I begin, its 1st January 2012 and I wish everyone a healthy, happy, loving and successful new year!
Its been about a month odd for me using a Windows Phone. Its a Samsung Focus, a phone not yet available in India. Now before I talk about the specs, unboxing it is as simple as any other phone in the market. The built is good, easily fits in your hands, good camera.
So much so for the phone, but what’s inside is, what makes it sexy!
The phone is a Windows Phone, I upgraded it to Mango. But let me rewind the picture a little before we go ahead. Before this phone, I was using a Symbian Nokia e63 QWERTY phone. Obviously since I have been using it for many years now, I was used to it. So much so that I could write an SMS without looking at the phone even while driving on Delhi streets.
Experiment Begins – going back to Symbian!
After about 22 days of WP, I again tried going back to the Symbian I have been using. Surprisingly, it took me time to go back to the QWERTY keys. One of the reactive thoughts I had in my brain was how the sense of touch and the great UI of the windows phone had got me hooked. The ease of sliding through pictures, the intelligent word suggestions by the phone while writing SMS’s/ Notes had hooked me to quicken things up and I loved it.
The story before the WP experience
All my pals who had a touch screen phone, majorly the iPhone before, I had a single question for them, as to, how could they type SMS’s so fast on the touch screen? It took me about 5 days to get used to the same and today I find intuitive typing and suggestions on the WP far better than my old Symbian.
Intelligence and Dependency
Obviously in this age of social networking and with a lifestyle which demands constant brain uptime, there is always a need of syncing things up. The WP, synced my social networks with such an amazing ease that to know the various events, I don’t even have to log into facebook anymore. I have my calendar ready at least with Birthdays’ etc. already.
Ohh that Address for the meeting
Going for meetings to places which are completely new, a simple meeting request on the WP gets synced to the calendar with all the information which is available in one touch. With the Symbian, the story was a little cumbersome and different.
There is a whole love story happening here, the design which fits in the hands, the sense of touch which is invigorated at every touch of the screen and the story which it creates, makes the WP an experience in itself.
Let your machines be closer to the human emotion and you have a killer product!
One experiential lesson I have learnt from the entire experience is that engineers who are focused on making the next killer product should look at learning from two things:
- Nature
- Human Senses and Emotions
Coz, if your product co-creates that ohh so inspiring and awe creating love story with your user, well, you have a blockbuster with you!!
