- Microsoft Tries a New Model for WM Device team
The mobile division’s User Experience Team (MDEX) is made up of 23 people in Redmond and five in Beijing. It includes various types of designers, strategists, ergonomists, ethnographers, sound engineers, artists and usability experts, among others.
Apart from hardware concepts, the team is working on future versions of the Windows Mobile software. That includes not only the next release, but those farther out. About 80 percent of the team’s work is on projects that will be on the market in three to five years.
The group moved this summer into its unusual space, dubbed the Mobile and Embedded Devices Experience design center, or MEDX. The design of the room arose from the belief that the group’s work would benefit from more collaboration….
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