Twitter, the ever-popular microblogging service, has had major site outages and bugs lately. And the usually enthusiastic Twitter user-base is growing frustrated 140-characters at a time. So if Twitter doesn’t recover soon, they may never recover at all. This site is becoming a great example for companies of how important basic service features are, like [...]
Your Advertising Gave Me Indigestion
Too often we are forced to stare at advertisements — enslaved by intrusive ad placement. Waiting in a move theater, before the previews, is one good example. It’s a frustrating experience, when the Coke ad comes on and interrupts your game of movie trivia with your friend, or whatever conversation you were having, and I [...]
Some Thoughts on MySpace’s Redesign
MySpace is rolling out their new re-design, as of yesterday, which the brilliant folks at Adaptive Path played a large part in. I’m always impressed by their work, but I was surprised by the screenshots of the redesign I saw on Valleywag who notes: “When Fox Interactive began interviewing Web designers for the job last [...]
Design and a theory of everything
Cati Vaucelle posted a picture of NASA using 3D composing with sound-controlled CGI to make magnetic fields visible, and this got me thinking about universality. Recently as I have been studying design strategy, I’ve noticed that the most effective design processes as cyclical. User research feeds design prototyping, which feeds user research. And with sustainable [...]
Defining Sustainability As Cradle To Cradle Design
What do companies mean when they create eco-friendly products? There’s a big difference between making small changes to a product, and then marketing it as green, and creating truly sustainable offerings. Poland Spring’s Eco-Shaped bottle uses less plastic than any other water bottle. But the packaging is still plastic, and bottled water is a product [...]
Turning A Facebook App Into A Viral Hit
Last month, I wrote about Jia Shen’s approach to designing killer Facebook applications. He’s the co-founder of RockYou, the makers of SuperWall (2 million daily active users). Today, I want to take Jia’s approach, and season it with some of my own thinking to see how we might redesign an existing Facebook app called “Nordsrtom [...]
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Oldies But Goodies
- Digital Agency Sites Suck April 7, 2008
- Defining Sustainability As Cradle To Cradle Design June 16, 2008
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Average Time Spent on site: 56 seconds.
May 7, 2009
- Sex appeal, the ’09 Camero, and interactive design May 28, 2008
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February 20th: I am going back to school!
February 2, 2012
- Song of the Day: Electric Light Orchestra’s “Without Someone” January 31, 2012
- Content Is King – Bill Gates (1/3/1996) January 19, 2012
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Designing for Documentation vs. Designing for Development
January 10, 2012