# Designing Mobile Phones

- Institution: Gresham College
- Speaker: Professor Harold Thimbleby
- Year: 2002
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Mathematics, Computer science, Society and politics
- Source: [Gresham College](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/designing-mobile-phones)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Pressing buttons on a mobile phone chooses various functions, as if the phone's functions are controlled by a code. Mobile phones are difficult to use almost entirely because their code is difficult to use. We can design a new code systematically, and using Huffman codes we can find one that is much faster and simpler than the manufacturer's original code.

## Lectures

1. [Designing Mobile Phones](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/designing-mobile-phones/2e5e6377916b) (YouTube)