Submitted by thekarin
from blog:
We were talking about there perceived friendliness of people in various cities that we have both been to. And I often try to notice patterns in systems or in modes of human interaction; I’m interested in how people form clust (Read More)
Putting people first:
Mikkel Michelsen discusses the core differences between specialised use contexts and the mainstream use of a mass consumer product, and tries to answer the questions how to design the best possible systems when faced with spe (Read More)
PR 2.0:
Source: ShutterstockThe Future of the Social Web is here today and we’re learning that engagement is not a matter of if or when, but to what extent, how and what value can we deliver and derive from it. The Social Web is muc (Read More)
Submitted by louisgray
from Google Reader:
I feel I should start this post by getting one thing straight – Louis Gray is one of the nicest people you will ever meet. He’s super smart, genuine, thoughtful, and honest. He’s a rare tech pundit who isn’t all about ego and (Read More)
Boxes and Arrows:
IDEA2009 had the world’s foremost thinkers and practitioners converge on Toronto’s MaRS Convention Center to share the big ideas that inspire, along with practical solutions for the ways people’s lives and systems are conver (Read More)
Boxes and Arrows:
Prior to becoming a senior UX designer at Popular Front Interactive, I spent two years as a mobile UX researcher within the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Mobile Technologies Group – a lab tasked with both future-casting a (Read More)
Functioning Form: Interface Design:
Over the past year or so, I've noticed an interesting trend here on Functioning Form that I believe is happening on many other blog and content sites across the Web. Trackbacks are steadily being overtaken by retweets. Let me (Read More)
Functioning Form: Interface Design:
As Google's Android operating system appears on more devices, more companies are extending the platform to develop custom user interfaces for their products. Though Google freely distributes Android and allows anyone to adapt (Read More)
InfoDesign: Understanding by Design:
"This is a simple, HTML-based list of the design patterns in Quince. We suggest using the Quince UX Patterns Explorer for richer pattern discovery and community interaction." (Quince). (Read More)
Blogs | design mind:
Poking. Friending. De-friending. Messaging. Posting. Tagging. Liking. Ignoring.frog Senior Interaction Designer Kevin Hutchinson confesses that our social power is evolving due to our presence on online social networks becaus (Read More)
WebProNews Feed:
What is it with airlines?If they’re not breaking guitars, their pilots are missing airports, or they’re berating people that are trying to help them.Well, we have one more reputation disaster to add to the list, courtesy of A (Read More)
Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim:
What is it with airlines?If they’re not breaking guitars, their pilots are missing airports, or they’re berating people that are trying to help them.Well, we have one more reputation disaster to add to the list, courtesy of A (Read More)
/Message:
The industrial influence in business management and theory is profound. In essence, for the past hundred years business has been objectified as a machine, divided into various components, like a clock or an electric generator (Read More)
zlabs:
The standard approach to interface design is to craft a channel that allows you to easily and efficiently control hardware or software; it’s all about the interaction between people and computers. But today, the two entit (Read More)
InfoDesign: Understanding by Design:
"Unfortunately, my observation has been that even when all of the right people are involved, more often than not, the various design disciplines opt to compartmentalize the problem. In other words, they divide the project int (Read More)
Global Guerrillas:
Many people that want to organize groups online, typically attempt to do this through a site dedicated to a specific topic, an inflammatory article/video, etc. This is a fairly arduous and suboptimal process. A better appro (Read More)
Functioning Form: Interface Design:
In my The Impact of Social Models talk at IDEA09 in Toronto, I presented an overview of the different ways social relationships are modeled in online software and examined if these distinct approaches resulted in different on (Read More)
Submitted by stewbagz
from blog:
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Mashable!:
J.R. Johnson is founder and CEO of Lunch.com, a user generated content platform focused on finding common ground, and host of the Lunch for Good event series.There’s been a rising interest in the concept of “social media for (Read More)
Submitted by logicalextremes
from Google Reader:
Imagine if you waved to someone and, without your knowledge, a high-resolution camera took a photograph of your hand, capturing your fingerprints. You might be upset. Or—if you were visiting Disneyland, where they already mak (Read More)