Into the next podcast we we explore user behaviour emerging technologies and how to design better digital experiences so your fingers much more naturally can transition from the top row of the keyboard to the bottom of the screen so that's green then becomes an extension keyboard if you like sound effects and that was Martin riddiford a founder of the London based design agency therefore and the designer of Gemini which is this new keyboard based palmtop communicator which is set to bring back at a much loved full Factor to the mobile industry had the chance to spend an afternoon with Martin and David a greedy the CTO of planet computers that the company which is going to be selling this Gemini device at therefore Design Studio in London and I saw there was really quite exciting this is the first mobile device for sometime that looks like it could provide something genuinely different to an issue but a very motivated niche group of users who want the power to create meaningful content on the move it looks a bit of a special moment for me personally because of Martin's involvement with another device and another company 20 plus years ago but that pontesbury need a bit of a history lesson which I'll come back to you in a second so before we get up into this discussion with Martin and and David Haye at let me get you up to speed on all of the good things which have been going on in our next community so first off that we had the first in her a new series of mixed gatherings and I mention this on that the last episode of the podcast with planning it this one was a breakfast in New York at the end of November and we got going to catch up on all the latest things going on in experience design using a really lovely smart group of people who came along so I've been guests on the podcast Bruce Lee summit been two necks conferences in London the past so when we're just people who are fans of of the show and the whole point of this gallery is registered provider a relax space where people can share ideas talk about emerging trends Witcher catching their interest only roll I set myself there is to try and help with a few introductions so as to make sure uber coming along who I suspect will get it one out of talking to each other get to meet each other meet the right people and also send around a question to everyone who is attending in advance to get them thinking about things that they might like to discuss any New York the question was simply when will digital design be capable of interacting with all of our human senses and I hope this expanded out to a bunch of different tangents during the course of the the event we talked about what it means for design agencies and how teams that design agencies need to start bringing in skills which allow them to go beyond just visual UI design and user experience design another conversation began to look at ideas around how we might use these multi sensory design techniques to play with notions of time and Efficiency in e-commerce Oreos and we got in such an interesting seem about the ethics of all of this year's specially is edition experiences begin to touch your side deeper emotional level how might we need to change the language and the expectations about the kind of metrics that we use to measure user response to the great of it and I thoroughly enjoyed meeting everyone there at the next one is going to be in London towards the end of January and that's can be a dinner this time around if you'd like to be first on the list get an invitation at all you need to do is drop me an email and the address is design talk at mobile user experience.com and I'll be in touch to let you know the date and the venue so let's see what else is new AmEx jobs board is continuing to grow now this is our service to connect people like you are all the talented designers strategies and technologies out there in the community with companies that are hiring and share that same belief in user centred design you can check out