Archive for September, 2007
Here is a link to an excellent article by the people at UX Matters.
People have finally begun to take notice of the emotional reaction of Users when testing new products. We UX Designers have to remember the creation of an optimal User Experience is a balance between thinking about how people actually use a [...]
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Amazon’s New Interface
Amazon.com is in the process of slowly releasing there new user interface.
Thoughts anyone? Do we like the direction they’re going in?
Click here to see the new Amazon User Interface
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The state of the internet – 2007
A “Web Trend Map” for 2007 documenting where users are going, how websites connect to one another, and where we fit in the grand scheme of things
Pretty cool in my book, and the makers have even created an interactive version linking to each site!
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Grossly Mistreated
An unfortunate abuse of police force……Andrew Meyer, a student at the University of Florida, is grossly mistreated specifically for…. well for talking to long at a John Kerry Q&A.
It seems the citizens of this country are no longer going to be allowed to question our leaders
The police found it necessary to taser the guy, take [...]
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Google Goes Green = Blackle
One of Googles answers to try and conserve energy, going Black…. A great way to save monitor energy, however as a User Experience Designer and someone trained in Cognitive Perception, I have to tell you, that creating a website with a black background and grey writing is not exactly easy on the eyes.
We [...]
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What has happened to MTV?
I know this isn’t exactly a novel question…but after wasting two hours of my life tonight watching the MTV VMA 2007 awards the question begs to be asked…
What has happened to MTV?
What happened to the video channel I loved tuning into and watching fun videos. As a member of what can be called the “MTV” [...]
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“Our overwhelmingly commodity-based culture, where a person can buy anything, anytime, anywhere and through different channels of commerce, is getting boring. It becomes ubiquitous….instead of status objects, there will be status activities.”
Ron Pompei – “What’s in Store” Women’s Wear Daily
I happened to be browsing Women’s Wear Daily the other day to look at [...]
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colorful musing of the day
“In design today, you have to work with like-minded people. Resumes aren’t important anymore.”
– San Francisco Magazine article on “Group Dynamic”
This particular quote struck a chord within me; with a plethora of social networking sites such as Facebook and Linked In which allow us to post our resumes throughout cyberspace we should ask ourselves, [...]
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Decompression
Well after spending a week at Burning Man no post can do the event justice so my only piece of advice is sign up and go to Burning Man 2008!
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