During the previous Mobile Monday, a number of people complained that Mobile Monday is becoming a club for the corporate to push their agendas leaving behind the people and the startups. Due to the public demand the management of Mobile Monady agreed to have the last Monday to be focused fully on startups and innovative ideas.  It is great to report here that a thousand and one lessons were learned before, during and after the last Mobile Monday. Here are some of them:

1. Step up and be counted

It is one thing people complaining that they are not given chance to present during tech events and it is another thing when you tell the same people to come up and present their ideas and startups. Before the decision was made by Mobile Monday team to give the local startups and individuals with ideas chance, everyone believed that many Kenyans would come up for given presentation slots during Mobile Monday event. But shock on everyone, not many developers and entrepreneurs came out of their  closet to be counted. That was in the stark reality with the way the established corporate members are always ready to push their products and services during the tech events.  Yes complain but be ready to show up….

2. Most played Music/tune in the world.

Di you know that the  default/signature Nokia tune is the most played tune in the world.  The tune is played about 1.8 Billion times a day even more than the happy birthday tune. Great.

3.  The User experience

User experience might look simple when mentioned but it is about much more. It is very complex and it is not only about great graphic design but includes all senses: smell, visual, hearing, touch, motion, taste. It is down to the real engagement with the user.

4. The interface

When coming up with the interface, it is important that one consider the business aspect, the technology and the users. Out of the three the user is the most important component. For the designers out there, don’t make the users think….keep it simple and hide the complexities.

5.  Around me

We discussed Around Me here but James Mwai’s presentation during Mobile Monday was one of the best technical presentations we have seen around.

  • Allows you to find important businesses and services wherever you are e.g. Restaurants, banks……
  • Designed for Symbian touch devices. S60 5th edition, Symbian^3, Symbian ‘Anna’.
  • Over 27,000 downloads.
  • Over 150,000 searches so far.

6. Every millisecond Matters.

When doing search or normal browsing, the users want to see it almost in real time. Actually now we have real time search with Google. Optimize optimize optimize. And if you are going to hit the network, ensure that you reduced the download size

7. Cloud is an option.

Whether you have reservation about cloud or not, it is a great option to consider. Perfect for storage and processing and you are sure to reduce the apps load time

8. Motogari App

Motogari ovi store app is news and analysis about cars.  As mentioned here sometime back, everything about cars is covered. Full presentation Robert Kunga  here

  • Over 18507 downloads