TechCrunch Feature @brianmfb
May 2012
Long before I built AI systems, I designed phones. As a teenager, one of my concepts was picked up by TechCrunch – whose editor wrote he’d carry it tomorrow if it were real.
!nnBefore any of this was a career, I designed phones.nnAs a teenager I switched mobile platforms compulsively – Windows Mobile, iPhone OS, Windows Phone, Android – to feel how differently each team solved interaction friction. Informal UX research, years before I had the words for it. I shared concept renders under the handle @brianmfb.nnIn May 2012, The Nokia Blog picked up one of them – a slimmed-down evolution of the Lumia 800. Four days later TechCrunch ran it too. Matt Burns, who’d go on to be the site’s Managing Editor, wrote he’d carry it tomorrow if it were real.nnImagining things that don’t exist yet, and making them real enough to believe – that’s been the practice since long before it was recognisable as one.
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