Fremont, CA, Aug 1, 2007 – Spime Inc., a leading provider of location-aware products and location intelligence solutions, welcomes Dr. Hartmut Esslinger to its Advisory Board.
Dr. Hartmut is the founder of “frog design,” the world’s most prominent and successful strategic design agency. He has worked with some of the most prestigious global companies, and, in some cases, such as Sony, Apple, Louis Vuitton, SAP and Lufthansa, he helped them to convert their technological competences and entrepreneurial desire into global brands. Hartmut was the first designer to bring human-driven, high-touch design to world of complex hardware and software technology.
“Dr. Hartmut Esslinger’s experience in convergent innovation will guide Spime’s products to be the most cutting-edge and intuitive,” said Shankar Narayanan, CEO. Spime’s NorthStar™ is a complete location-based mobile search and navigation suite for mobile phones. “Users have different needs so the experience has to be user- not producer-driven,”
"Spime has an amazing team which is developing very innovative and useful products. I am excited to be part of Spime and we will work together to create and to introduce cool and user friendly location enabled products for the mobile consumers” says Dr. Hartmut Esslinger.
