S60 Open to new features

The question is: How to manage your family schedules easily; one has music lesson other has football trainings and third would like to have car this evening. Ok, you can make the calls but still the coordination is very challenging. There you have a clear user need identified: Shared calendar and online synchronization of it. This is pretty famous use case (as we all know) but there is no appropriate solution available. In this case mobile device is the one who can make our lives little easier. But to make this idea fly he or she need some help from PC and home entertainment devices. These could work as a presentation centers at home. Also, the potential users are more used to manage the settings with computers and TV’s than mobile phones.

So the use case is very clear but the real challenge is to design UI’s for this need. Because the skills of the users will vary a lot, it’s essential to have solutions that are easy to use and understand; the affordance issues should also be taken seriously. However, if the challenges in UI design are solved, I’m sure that there will be masses of satisfied end-users. Most importantly people who are used to work with the well-working platform will not change it when the device is in the end of its life cycle. In this case the platform has a real chance to make the difference.