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Happy to have sponsored InfoCamp Berkeley 2010 last weekend. Lots of great people and ideas! (via InfoCamp - Berkeley)
Making digital human
Happy to have sponsored InfoCamp Berkeley 2010 last weekend. Lots of great people and ideas! (via InfoCamp - Berkeley)
Books in the Age of the iPad — Craig Mod
Interesting take on how the traditional page flipping metaphor no longer applies when reading on a device. Why not an infinitely long horizontal scroll? Why not other navigational mechanisms?
From sneakers to smartphones: The man behind MS Windows Phone design
Interesting piece on how Microsoft went outside of their existing Windows mobile team to get a fresh perspective on the UI design (although he has actually been at Microsoft since June of 2007). He was also part of the Tech Lab at Nike, which resulted in the Nike + iPod work with Apple.
More info in this article, as well.
Android 73% male, iPod touch 65% 17-and-under, 50% of iPhone users don’t pay for apps in a given month
What does the red light mean? Power indicator on a DVD player shines red - but does that mean it’s in “standby”, or that it’s currently turned on?
BBC - BBC Internet Blog: A new global visual language for the BBC’s digital services
Interesting redesign effort underway at the BBC for their internet presence.
The fold is dead. Long live the fold.
Our research definitely agrees with Paddy on this one: there’s no more ‘fold’ on the web, because people scroll with abandon. That said, there’s something also to be said about a page being too long, because many of these same users aren’t willing to invest a lot of time on a given page.