ReadWriteWeb
WorkLight, a startup that offers enterprise 2.0 products, recently did a survey among Facebook users to find out their willingness to use Web 2.0 tools for secure banking. The survey was conducted among 1000 Facebook users between the ages of 18-34. The fact that the survey was conducted among Facebook users gives it a bias (Read More)
Boxes and Arrows
To tackle the classic “how to prototype rich interactions” problem, I developed a process for translating static screen designs (from wireframes to visual comps) into interactive experiences using Flash. Requiring some fairly basic ActionScript knowledge, these prototypes proved to be a quick yet powerful way to (Read More)
IxDA Threads
Christ, Dana (HR). The User Experience Interface Architect will partner with the Visual Design Team, the Business Analysts and Technology teams to provide overall web site User Interface direction based on continually evolving user-centric design, industry recognized... (Read More)
Functioning Form: Interface Design
I’ve written extensively about the differences between top, right, and left aligned labels on Web forms. While these considerations account for the majority of form layout options, they don’t cover all the possible ways form labels could be presented on a page. One alternative I get asked about quite regularly is labels wit (Read More)
Boxes and Arrows
A lot of confusion and misunderstanding surrounds the term "user experience." The multitude of acitivities that can be labeled with these two words span a vast spectrum of people, skills and situations. If you ask for UX design (UXD), what exactly are you asking for? Similary, if someone tells you they are going to provide (Read More)
jnd.org
Andrew Park of Wired Magazine wrote a nice piece about the design philosophy of Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson of 37signals: The Brash Boys at 37signals Will Tell You: Keep it Simple, Stupid. Brash is an understatement.I was quoted in the article because of my article arguing that simplicity is highly overrated: t (Read More)
Here Comes Everybody
Explains how the architecture of participation is slowly taking advantage of the cognitive surplus that has been wasted watching sitcoms for the last fifty years. (Read More)
: as per this article; It doesn't mean that we'll never sit around mindlessly watching Scrubs on the couch. It just means we'll do it less.
And this is the other thing about the size of the cognitive surplus we're talking about. It's so large that even a small change could have huge ramifications. Let's say that everything stays 99 percent the same, that people watch 99 percent as much television as they used to, but 1 percent of that is carved out for producing and for sharing. The Internet-connected population watches roughly a trillion hours of TV a year. That's about five times the size of the annual U.S. consumption. One per cent of that is 100 Wikipedia projects per year worth of participation.
: absolutely! I think that Clay Shirky is onto something big on this theory. Participation and sharing was never big media's strengths... but they seem to be knowing it intuitively, with text voting for reality shows growing in impact