"Rimino" is Amid Moradganjeh's Masters thesis project at Umeå Institute of Design in collaboration with Microsoft and under the supervision of Donald Barnett. Source: www.rimino.com

Project Rimino redefines mobile experience through human factors research and design thinking. Informed by human experience, the project is guided by six core design values. The design values are derived from the demands and the aspirations of the user and are used to define the overall user experience.

The Rimino concept is an E-paper mobile device with a user interface inspired by print posters. Historically, as technology has progressed, devices have become more conspicuous. Rimino challenges this trend and presents the alternative: technology that is more integrated and more sensitive to the human experience.

Rimino concept video represents a future that is envisioned to be more aligned with what we need and want as people instead of our needs and wants being dictated by technology. It also shows how design can be used to introduce behaviors that are less influenced by technology and are more human-like.

The six design values in Rimino Mobile Experience:

Following are the six design values that define the Rimino Experience:

1. Natural input and navigation: The limited size of mobile devices and the circumstances in which they are used have defined the constrictive nature of user experience (particularly for input, capture and navigation). By using the whole device and by exploring new physical properties, users will be free to interact with their mobile devices in a more natural and intuitive way.

2. Human-like communication: Inspired by face to face communication, Rimino introduces new tools and behaviors to approach and communicate in a more human-human way. Rimino offers new methods beyond call and notification to approach other people, provides a bigger range of resolution for communication and expands the user experience beyond before and after the communication session.

3. Lively device: Rimino implements a new set of behavior that makes the users feel it is truly aware of them. Another feature that makes Rimino alive is the Lively pad at the back of the device. Lively pad enables certain interactions using temperature, haptic feedback, light, airflow, olfactory feedback and moisture.

4. Goal-based UI: There is no need for apps on Rimino and tasks can be accomplished by following a path that is closer to the human's mental model. By capturing elements(time, location, voice,image, temperature, objects, people or ...) first, user is able to choose and initiate a task.

5. One experience - multiple devices: Rimino is an experience which is independent of the device itself. The tasks (and not the programs) user is involved with constantly move between Rimino and other devices. Also the hardware and devices user has access to become part of a bigger connected system. Rimino mobile device is able to detect devices nearby and behave accordingly.

6. Right resolution for right interaction: The desirable interaction resolution on a mobile device very much depends on the context and the task. Rimino offers both rich and basic versions of the same interface when needed. The interface is switched to the basic mode by bending the device. Basic interface represents the essentials and needs less engagement to interact with. The bent device can be used in stationary state, creating new application.