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Slash Design Ltd registered www.symbain.com as an example of how technology often fails without user-centred software design. Consider this:
if you mis-type "symbian" as "symbain" in an email address (an extremely common error), your email program sends it to us here at Slash Design, where we analyse it for information we can sell to your competitors.

Actually, we don't really do that. But we could. (And we receive plain text "symbain" emails every day, intended for people at all levels of that company.)

If your email encryption only worked, say, 99 times out of 100, you might well think that that's not good enough. Yet your email program will blithely accept your occasional and easily detectable mistype, and send your email to who-knows-where. Happy?

(The problem's getting even worse, ironically, with the spread of small online devices; lots of addresses are being typed on fiddly keyboards and screens.)

This is just one example of how great technology (a billion dollar industry that can provide secure communications)
but a lack of user-centred design (to recognise that people still want plain text emails, but still make typing mistakes)
leads to product failure (your email system is NOT secure).

So how much effort does your company put into developing great technology? And how much into developing good design - making technology deliver the things people really want, in ways they can understand?

Well, this is an ad for Slash Design, the company founded by Nick Healey, previously: (We're very Symbian-friendly.) For examples of our more recent design experience, check the Slash Design site.

What you're reading - www.symbain.com - is a little example of our creative thinking.

We can help you make products that deliver your technology to normal everyday users in ways they will understand, use, want, like, love.

Go to Slash Design for more information.

and Symbian is here.