What a mess. The graph nodes slowly crawl around, as if to ensure that when you click you won't hit the thing you meant. Feels like something built in Flash during Nokia's heady days. (Unintentional irony? Nokia was known as a company with lots of Flash concepts and little software product execution.)<p>But the content seems really interesting. These are internal prototypes and documents from Nokia's archive, now released for the first time. I wish there was a way to browse them in chronological order without all this janky graph visualization nonsense.<p>There's a link in the corner that takes you to the actual archive repository:<p><a href="https://repo.aalto.fi/index.php?name=SO_b66a9391-dcf8-4399-8e87-611f84c3fc4c" rel="nofollow">https://repo.aalto.fi/index.php?name=SO_b66a9391-dcf8-4399-8...</a><p>This seems like it might be a less brain-melting way to browse the content.
Guys, what are we doing here?<p>To me it's a very confusing website, that's also a stuttery mess(Chrome, Win10, Ryzen 4000 6 core). I would much prefer the web page styles of the 90's with just hyperlinks and pictures instead of these fancy orbital sci-fi neural net styles so that some fron-end designers can flex their skills. It looks cool but the UX is bad.<p>Is this the future of European tech? Online museums to show digital tourists our glorious long gone tech past similar to our IRL museums? The irony is not lost on me.
The UI for this does seem a bit "Baby's first force-directed graph". It's quite hard to use for navigation - if it sprang to life on load but then stayed static (other than hover highlighting) I think that would be much better.
Hm, for a site specialized in Nokia phones, it sure has a lot of "unknown models". I assume those are design mockups or prototypes of phones that didn't make it to mass production? At least this N-Gage lookalike <a href="https://repo.aalto.fi/uncategorized/IO_e3183882-13b3-48a0-a522-8f386c214cf2/" rel="nofollow">https://repo.aalto.fi/uncategorized/IO_e3183882-13b3-48a0-a5...</a> clearly has a dummy screen...
Anyone remember the Morph concept?<p><a href="https://repo.aalto.fi/uncategorized/IO_35687268-3fde-4493-a0fd-e3609d404b03/" rel="nofollow">https://repo.aalto.fi/uncategorized/IO_35687268-3fde-4493-a0...</a><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX-gTobCJHs" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX-gTobCJHs</a><p>Blew me away back then, but forgot the name. This archive helped to recover the bits in my head. Thank you!
"My First Nokia" designs were funny in this presentation: <a href="https://repo.aalto.fi/uncategorized/IO_47c69f41-6009-4520-9e4f-cfd6f9155585/" rel="nofollow">https://repo.aalto.fi/uncategorized/IO_47c69f41-6009-4520-9e...</a>
<a href="https://repo.aalto.fi/uncategorized/IO_ebb0df1b-4db3-4b3c-ad2e-4e6442a88cd8/" rel="nofollow">https://repo.aalto.fi/uncategorized/IO_ebb0df1b-4db3-4b3c-ad...</a><p>Is this a Nokia Watch or rather a Nokia Cuff?
I really wish the old Nokia was still around but without the cruft of their internal politics.<p>Something that Nokia was slow to get is also the appeal of the App Store / Play Store as a way of downloading apps easily which was always a problem in the older mobile operating systems.
There is some really interesting media in there, I'm not a huge fan of how it's surfaced with this network visualization tbh - the small viewport version you get on mobile or when shrinking the window down is actually nicer imo, you can just flip through the individual entries