Digital innovations and design consultancy Fjord
has appointed Christian Lindholm, a renowned innovator in the mobile
and mobile Internet space, as a Director and Partner in the business.
Lindholm
is known as the father of the Nokia Series 60 user interface, and is
the inventor of the Nokia Navi-Key, one of the most widely deployed
mobile user interfaces, with over 600 million units sold. He will bring
his extensive experience and know-how to help grow Fjords consultancy
business and steer the companys incubation activities.
Lindholm
joins Fjord from Yahoo!, where he served as Vice President of Global
Mobile Products, overseeing the development of Yahoo!s mobile
services. At Yahoo!, he helped to take Yahoo! Go from first- to
second-generation, making major concept and experience overhauls and
evolving it to the now well-known Carousel design. He also drove the
creation of the FIFA World Cup services, most notably the alert and
mobile website.
Prior to joining Yahoo!, Lindholm spent 10 years at
Nokia, where he and his team worked in partnership with Fjord to create
the Nokia Lifeblog, a multimedia diary automatically created on the
users mobile phone and archived on their PC. Lifeblog allows users to
share desired moments on a blog from either their mobile or PC and now
comes as standard on all Nokia N-Series devices. Lifeblog has since
been hailed as one of the first true convergence products in the mobile
space.
Lindholm also  co-authored Mobile Usability – How Nokia
changed the face of the mobile phone, a vivid insight into the
processes and working methods that enabled Nokia to revolutionise
usability, and holds several patents in user experience and mobile
software. He also appears regularly on conference platforms around the
world sharing his thoughts on strategic developments affecting the
mobile and mobile internet industries.
In his former roles at
Yahoo! and Nokia, Christian was a long-term customer of Fjord says MD
and Founder, Mike Beeston. He has an incredible track record and a
visionary perspective that will enable us to reach new levels of
digital innovation and design. He will strengthen our offer to
businesses looking for a strategic understanding of digital media and
the design of world class solutions and will be a key driver behind our
own ventures.