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Extreme Personalisation

An unexpected surprise of last week's Istanbul visit was coming across these working Nokia phones hacked/customised by Mehmet Erkök, industrial design lecturer at İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi's Department of Industrial Product Design.

Click to enlarge photos - worth seeing the detail.

The extent to which different forms of personalisation demand compromise e.g. removing the keypad, adding new buttons. Or are complimentary e.g. moving an icon for a commonly used application higher in the menu hierarchy.

Photos of mobile phones taken by and used with kind permission of Mehmet Erkök.

Writing from Tokyo | May 4, 2007 | Permalink