Orange Dot

Recently, I was shortlisted as a finalist in the MEX Mobile User Experience Awards 2009 which was being held as a part of the MEX 2009 Conference in London. This was great news so I decided to pack my bags and jump on a last minute flight over to London. Due to some delays in Bangkok I only just got into London about 8 hours before the conference started, I found my way to my accommodation and got some well needed sleep after my now 29 hour journey.

London was amazing and the MEX Conference was absolutely superb, it was held at a venue called Wallacespace St Pancras. Just as they had advertised there were about 100 user experience specialists from over a dozen countries who had all come together to share and learn from each other about what it is that is going to make a mobile product a great experience for the user.

Enough about the conference, after day one there was an awards ceremony that night and this is what I was really there for. I was nervous, as you would expect, I’d just flown literally to the other side of the world to see if I was going to win an award for my contribution to mobile user experience through the work I have been doing on the Doo Phone. I tried to talk myself out of getting excited, I told myself I wasn’t going to win to try to calm my nerves. They announce the other three categories before getting to the freelance category award. I couldn’t believe it when Marek Pawlowski (Founder of MEX) called out “Rhys Cooper” I was awarded a very heavy glass trophy which holds the title of ‘Winner – Freelance Category, MEX Mobile User Experience Awards 2009’

It truly is an honour to have been awarded an international award for the work I’ve been doing over the past couple of years and I thank MEX 2009 for giving me this experience. I’d really like to take the opportunity to thank some people publicly here, Nick McIntosh, Justin Brow and Shane Williamson who have all been very supportive of my goal to deliver a mobile solution to people with a disability. I’m truly taken back by the amount of effort these men have been willing to put in to support Orange Dot, I feel very passionate about the Doo Phone project and I can’t wait to see it delivered to the people who need it most.