Specialization might give you a temporary boost in productivity, but it comes at the expense of overall functional cohesion and shared ownership. If only Jeff can fiddle with the billing system, any change to the billing system is bottlenecked on Jeff, and who’s going to review his work on a big change?
To Lure Customers, Appeal To All 5 Of Their Senses
To Lure Customers, Appeal To All 5 Of Their Senses
Cool tips for enhancing the first impression customers will have of your product. Sensorial perception is of paramount importance.
To Lure Customers, Appeal To All 5 Of Their Senses
www.fastcodesign.com/3024657/6…
Cool tips for enhancing the first impression customers will have of your product. Sensorial perception is of paramount importance.
I think Snapchat is a super interesting privacy phenomenon because it creates a new kind of space to communicate which makes it so that things that people previously would not have been able to share, you now feel like you have place to do so.
Spot on, Mark.
Zuckerberg Calls Snapchat A “Privacy Phenomenon” | TechCrunch
I think Snapchat is a super interesting privacy phenomenon because it creates a new kind of space to communicate which makes it so that things that people previously would not have been able to share, you now feel like you have place to do so.
Here's How People Are Using The Jelly App
Here’s How People Are Using The Jelly App
By using publicly accessible API endpoints, Robert Moore at RJMetrics said he was able to scan all the questions posted thus far on the app. He determined that more than 100,000 questions have been asked, with only about 25% of them receiving an answer. According to his report, Jelly saw 8,275 new active users on the day of its launch, with 5,183 people asking and 5,527 answering.
Interesting that Jelly is taking off so quickly. Or is it?
Jelly gets the right idea: we definitely can use technology to reduce the friction between one person who needs a piece of knowledge and the one who owns it, and make it easy to enable communication.
Here’s How People Are Using The Jelly App
www.fastcompany.com/3024930/f…
By using publicly accessible API endpoints, Robert Moore at RJMetrics said he was able to scan all the questions posted thus far on the app. He determined that more than 100,000 questions have been asked, with only about 25% of them receiving an answer. According to his report, Jelly saw 8,275 new active users on the day of its launch, with 5,183 people asking and 5,527 answering.
Interesting that Jelly is taking off so quickly. Or is it?
Jelly gets the right idea: we definitely can use technology to reduce the friction between one person who needs a piece of knowledge and the one who owns it, and make it easy to enable communication.
Rethinking the airline boarding pass. Peter Smart redesigns the boarding pass with a focus on hierarchy and legibility. Impressive.
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Rethinking the airline boarding pass. Peter Smart redesigns the boarding pass with a focus on hierarchy and legibility. Impressive.
Apple Interested in Liquidmetal Alloys for Home Buttons, Touch Sensors, and Tamper-Resistant Screws
Apple Interested in Liquidmetal Alloys for Home Buttons, Touch Sensors, and Tamper-Resistant Screws
One of these patent applications proposes using Liquidmetal alloys in pressure sensors such as those found in buttons and switches on mobile devices, offering greater durability under repeated use.
Sweating the details, as always. Design changes like these seem incremental but they higher the delight users get from their product.
Apple Interested in Liquidmetal Alloys for Home Buttons, Touch Sensors, and Tamper-Resistant Screws
One of these patent applications proposes using Liquidmetal alloys in pressure sensors such as those found in buttons and switches on mobile devices, offering greater durability under repeated use.
Sweating the details, as always. Design changes like these seem incremental but they higher the delight users get from their product.
Google’s leadership, threatened by the attention and advertising relevance of Facebook, is betting the company on Google at all costs.
Google will make it easy for strangers to email you, rightly writes Marco Arment.
Google’s leadership, threatened by the attention and advertising relevance of Facebook, is betting the company on Google at all costs.
The lost secrets of webOS
Really liked WebOS. The Verge has a nice in-depth article with a lot of photos about the what-if-webos-was-still-alive scenario.
The lost secrets of webOS
Really liked WebOS. The Verge has a nice in-depth article with a lot of photos about the what-if-webos-was-still-alive scenario.
The Legend of Zelda taught me everything I need to know about UX
The Legend of Zelda taught me everything I need to know about UX
I miss the days when video games assumed their players possessed a modicum of intelligence and common sense. These days, elaborate tutorials sap the fun out of the early levels of modern games, repeatedly prodding users with instructions and tips as if we possessed the mental acumen of a stack of cinder blocks.
This is about the debate of walkthrough vs. let the user discover the app. I think that for games it makes sense for users to discover everything by themselves because, well, it’s a game.
But it quickly becomes frustrating if you’re using an app that delivers something valuable other than entertainment and you don’t know how it works. It’s a fragile balance.
The Legend of Zelda taught me everything I need to know about UX
I miss the days when video games assumed their players possessed a modicum of intelligence and common sense. These days, elaborate tutorials sap the fun out of the early levels of modern games, repeatedly prodding users with instructions and tips as if we possessed the mental acumen of a stack of cinder blocks.
This is about the debate of walkthrough vs. let the user discover the app. I think that for games it makes sense for users to discover everything by themselves because, well, it’s a game.
But it quickly becomes frustrating if you’re using an app that delivers something valuable other than entertainment and you don’t know how it works. It’s a fragile balance.
College students from the Columbus College of Art & Design took over a chalkboard in a classroom to illustrate quotes.
Click through the link for more.
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College students from the Columbus College of Art & Design took over a chalkboard in a classroom to illustrate quotes.
Click through the link for more.
inFORM - Interacting With a Dynamic Shape Display, an invention by the MIT Tangible Media Group.