Your customers experience it that way around
Last week we had the SA UX Forum Cape Town meet-up. 16 people braved the rain and cold to show up and share ideas about user experience. Because user experience is just getting a foothold down here, we started at the beginning. I did a talk called “What is user experience and why do we …
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Organised, industrial society creates left-over time for its citizens — and that time has to be used up somehow. At first it was with gin. Then TV. Now it’s just beginning to be with mass creation and collaboration. Thanks to Anne Sophie Leens for the pointer. And “wow” to Clay Shirky for such a great …
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If if the 1st Gen iPhone was so “bad” – what was Apple thinking when they launched it? Lots of people are excited about the new iPhone because they think it will address many of the annoyances present in the first one. (Well – not all of those issues are getting addressed, in fact. But …
Tower Bridge has joined the ranks of an increasing number of intelligent objects that can tell us things about themselves. My colleague David Whittle uncovered this beautiful little story: Tower Bridge is now on Twitter. Effecitvely the bridge is keeping its own micro blog of its activitiy and notifying anyone who cares to subscribe about …
Flow Interactive is hiring. I thought maybe some insights into life at Flow might be interesting for everyone – and might persuade some of you to come work with us. If you’ve got a talent for user-centred design, you’ll love it here. Here are some quick snapshots. Here are some Flow consultants eating cake. This …
As mentioned in a previous post, many inboxes are overflowing and the situation looks set to get worse. What’s the answer: Better discipline? Email bankruptcy? Choosing to use a different medium (like IM) for some conversations? Better email clients? Probably all of the above. Xobni have had a go at improving outlook – by making …
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The gag: take the interaction that you have with friends via facebook, and transpose it into a real life conversation. It’s hilarious and cringe-provoking. An old contact comes knocking on your door wanting to be your “friend” and brandishing compromising photos of you that he will share with everyone. Watch the video on YouTube. It …
Choose a better tool than email for some of your communication jobs. Mark Hurst has been blogging about email bankruptcy a fair amount recently – the idea that overwhelmed executives sometimes feel there’s no option but to delete their inboxes and start again. With estimates saying that the average knowledge worker will send/receive 199 corporate …
This diagram shows a patent application recently filed by Apple for an OS X gesturing control panel. Thanks to macRumours.com Apple are leading the pack in gestural interface design at the moment, with iPhone, iPod and Macbook Air. (But synaptics, who make most of the the worlds touchpads, are in hot pursuit. They say they …
As remote controls and mobile phones become increasingly baroque in their complexity, more and more of us find ourselves pressing the wrong buttons at the wrong times. I press the wrong button three times a day on my K800i. But Grandma has an extra problem: she worries that by pressing the wrong button she will …