20 January 2009

Axel Meyer - Nseries's Head of Design
Answers On Interesting Bloggers' Questions

There are a lot of questions about the Nokia N97 buzzing around the blogosphere, and here is the short, two minutes long video in which Axel Meyer, Head of Design at Nokia Nseries trying to answer on some of the most interesting question.

In this video Axel explains some basic design principles of Nokia N97 and answer on questions related to the keyboard and relation between digital and physical aspects of the device.

Nokia N97 is a powerful but yet beautiful phone, complex by nature, simple by design and it is real pleasure to look at.

Creating a revolutionary mobile device like the mighty N97 takes time and vision and my hat goes off to everybody involved in the project and I would just like to take this opportunity to give my congratulations to whole design team that worked on the Nokia N97 project once again!

This is the nice video intro that indeed gives answer on some questions but from other hand, the Nokia N97 hardware architecture is still a question for which there is no answer yet unfortunately!

The lack of the faster processor and the 3D hardware graphic acceleration is a very powerful issue, it is so powerful that even conversation about is forbidden in the Nokia circles. Hardware architecture is untouchable subject among the Nokia clerks.

If you watch, listen or read interviews with Nokia designers and Nseries managers lately, you have probably already noticed that hardware is not mentioned because it is subject waiting to explode if it is so much is touched!

Axel Meyer joined Nokia Design in early 2000. He graduated as product designer from Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentine. Prior to his career at Nokia, he worked independently for 4 years as a designer in Argentina, Belgium and The Netherlands as consultant to a broad range of clients such as GE Plastics, Samsonite, Segno, Gazelle and Ideal Standard with Flex Development BV and Norbert Linke Associates.

In 1994 he joined Philips Design in Eindhoven, working as a Senior Designer for the Multimedia team. He moved to France in 1996 to create the design team for Philips Consumer Communication based in Le Mans. He had being a core team member of several key projects at Philips Design, such as Connected Planet, and he had been awarded with several international design awards in the field of product and interaction design.

Within Nokia Design, Axel Meyer has lead a number of conceptual projects for Multimedia product experiences as well as heading the Nokia Design team in Oulu, Finland. In May 2002, he took the responsability for the strategy and advance concepting for Nokia Nseries design portfolio. He is currently Group Design Director of the multidisciplinary Multimedia design team in Nokia Design and a member of the Multimedia Design Management Board