May 2012
2 posts
Tech And The City | design mind →
Chief Digital Officer Rachel Sterne aims to make New York the “world’s top-ranked digital city” but she and her counterparts across the U.S. are still trying to figure out what that means.
April 2012
11 posts
LG begins mass production of first flexible,... →
LG, that South Korean conglomerate that has mostly spent the last few years fading into Samsung’s shadow, has just announced that it has begun mass production of the world’s first flexible, plastic e-ink display. This is opposed to the hard, heavy, prone-to-cracking glass-laminate e-ink displays found in devices such as the Kindle and Nook.
Wind Map →
Beautiful, zoomable wind mapping animation of US weather data.
Watchtrendwatching.com’s May 2012 Trend Briefing features (R)ETAIL (R)EVOLUTION: how e-commerce is transforming ALL shopping behavior. Both on and offline. (via trendwatching.com-etailevolution)
WatchAs we expect more from technology, do we expect less from each other? Sherry Turkle studies how our devices and online personas are redefining human connection and communication — and asks us to think deeply about the new kinds of connection we want to have. (via Sherry Turkle: Connected, but alone? | Video on TED.com)
How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant... →
As Pole’s computers crawled through the data, he was able to identify about 25 products that, when analyzed together, allowed him to assign each shopper a “pregnancy prediction” score.
You are where you work - mUmBRELLA →
“The New Aesthetic concerns itself with “an eruption of the digital into the...”
– An Essay on the New Aesthetic | Wired.com
via @rachel612
March 2012
14 posts
Watch The Design Studio Method
Community Informatics Vol 8, No 1 (2012) →
An interesting issue full of #servicedesign related research ‘Community Informatics and Older Persons’
“Rather than the check-ins feature that even Foursquare founder, Dennis Crowley,...”
– Move over Foursquare, SXSW’s next big location app is Highlight
via @DifferentUX
“In their great book, Forms that Work, Jarrett & Gaffney propose three types...”
– Must read? Must go in question! - Formulate Information Design
via @Formulate
pxldot: iOS Ebb and Flow →
pxldot:
iOS 5 captured approximately 75% of all iOS users in the same amount of time it took Gingerbread to get 4% of all Android users.
Via @pherborn
UX Testing and Cultural Preferences | UX Magazine →
Five things to consider when designing UX tests with culture in mind:
Colours
Language
Bi-Culturalism and Mutli-Culturalism
High and Low Context
Purchasing Technology
February 2012
6 posts
“…by showing wireframes without agreeing on IA, we are focusing our...”
– The De-Evolution of UX Design | Elisabeth Hubert
Mobile Sites vs. Apps: The Coming Strategy Shift... →
Mobile apps currently have better usability than mobile sites, but forthcoming changes will eventually make a mobile site the superior strategy.
“An important time for design.
Design is on a roll. Client services are...”
– An Important Time for Design - brilliant, timely piece by Gimmebar founder Cameron Koczon. (via curiositycounts)
A List Apart: Articles: Future-Ready Content →
The future is flexible, and we’re bending with it. From responsive web design to futurefriend.ly thinking, we’re moving quickly toward a web that’s more fluid, less fixed, and more easily accessed on a multitude of devices. As we embrace this shift, we need to relinquish control of our content as well, setting it free from the boundaries of a traditional webpage to flow as needed through varied...