Ok, it’s an internal award from our R&D innovation process in the UK, but still, a recognition is a recognition! Thanks again to everyone that made the service to go live, all the users and everyone that judged the competition!

On March 18 2010, Orange Social Life won the mobile news award of the most innovative service social_life_web_r500

Launched in August 2009, Social Life has consistently attracted customers and offers a wide range of social networks integration.

Having worked on it since it’s very very early stages, it feels great to look at it and feel proud that we all made it! I remember the day when my boss came around and asked my availabilities for ‘the months to come’ =)

Sometimes you are requested to do a quick job at work, that “should not last longer than 2/3 days”.

We’ve all been there, all done it and in my case in R&D with Orange, seen too many times the “project” end up in a drawer somewhere.

However, this time, I have been assigned on that “little project” called snapshot, for which the goal was simple: our team racing designer was creating the graphical design and I was translating that into XHTML/CSS as well as XHTML-MP templates for mobiles as quickly as I could

The latest of ekynoxe’s design and developments: http://badops.zapee.com.

Badops is slowly arrive to maturity as an online tool to report bad behaving radio operators. The brief for this project was that simple:

• Total freedom on the design
• Simplicity of the interface for only a few functions
• ability to integrate later design and functionality requirements

In other words, a perfect project for me! Especially on the design part, the total freedom allowed me to get down to something refreshing. A bit on the flashy side, I admit, but hey, the goal is to nail these bad-ops!

Work is still going on as requirements are coming in, but there is plenty of room to add more content on that website.