Proficia Mouse Phone
Client: Camelot Corporation
Design team: Geoff Hollington, Richard Arnott, Chris Dolan, David Townsend, Liam McGuiness
Modelmaking team: Chris Hill at Benchmark
VoIP Mouse Phone - The client, a US provider of internet telephony software, asked hollington to help create an internet audio handset, using their VoIP (voice over internet protocol) compression technology.
Design research evaluated sketch models, user-scenarios and ethnographic video studies to provide insights into an appropriate product format and behaviour. This turned out to be a mouse phone which sits anywhere on your desktop.