This frog is different. Leading design and innovation firm frog announced Sunday that it has partnered with Sharp Corporation to create “Feel UX,” a new Android smartphone experience that is easy to use, highly personalized, and visually stunning.
The collaboration brings together a global interdisciplinary team of strategists, designers, and engineers across both companies to design a distinctive connected experience for the next generation of Sharp’s AQUOS smartphones.
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The newly designed “Feel UX” for Sharp’s AQUOS smartphones will be available in Japan during the summer of 2012 and include the following features:
- Personalized lock-screen experience, allowing users to browse photos and widgets without unlocking the devices
- Real-time weather display motion experience and animation
- Desirable, gender-neutral palette and visuals
- Streamlined, curated home space to smoothly manage applications, widgets, and shortcuts
“To capture the expanding market of smartphone users, we wanted the new Sharp AQUOS handsets to be a unique kind of Android experience, to look and feel different and standout from competitors,” said Paul Pugh, VP, Creative, Software Innovation at Frog.
