Making digital human

2 years ago

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.

2 years ago

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.

Via Life Below 600px | I Am Paddy

2 years ago

Shifting allegiances on the web

Interesting take on how quickly allegiances can shift on the web, where there’s relatively less switching cost, and cool hunting is always looking for the site less traveled:

The other night I was driving my 17-year-old daughter, Grace, and her friend Tessa to a concert. A song came on the radio, and Tessa laughed. “I think I first heard that song on MySpace,” she said, “back when we all had MySpace.” Both girls broke out giggling. I broke out sweating.

2 years ago

Interesting data visualization: how Facebook users cluster by geography in the US (at PeteSearch: How to split up the US)

2 years ago

Winning the battle of 140,000+ apps

There you are, putting the final touches on an amazing iPhone application. It’s useful, straightforward, and appealing - and a dead-on match for the magical confluence of your business goals and your users’ wants, needs, and desires. And then you submit it to the iTunes app store, where it disappears into the void among the thousands of IQ tests, flashlights, and fart apps.

So how can you make your app visible among 140,000+ others? We headed up to San Francisco last night to the Mobile Monday Developer Secrets - Increasing App Store Sales meetup to hear the latest from TripIt, AdMob, Flixter, Flurry, and Booyah. Here’s a recap combined with some thoughts from our own customer research:

Problems

There are over 140,000 apps in the app store, and most people discover apps by browsing the Top 25 or Top 100 on their iPhone
90% of people are finding iPhone apps through the App Store on their phone, rather than on the desktop or via other websites

2 years ago

litl

An interesting take on the netbook concept: a device that’s designed to be an appliance, but without all the sour aftertaste of other recent stumbles like the Palm Foleo or the Nokia Booklet 3G.

Looking at the teams involved in the design (Cooper and Pentagram), it’s got a good design heritage. What I’m curious about is whether or not they’ve solved the perennial problem of this type of devices: nobody wants a device that feels like a stripped-down version of a ‘real computer’.

Hopefully their ‘non-OS’ OS is enough to get buyers over the hump.

2 years ago

Create with Context in CIO Magazine on the Five Qualities of a Great iPhone App: http://bit.ly/4eSEY5

2 years ago

Woot and the ecommerce experience

Now that’s a great ecommerce summary page. I know what they’re shipping, where it’s going, and how to complete the task.

2 years ago

“Backyard wind turbine? There’s an app for that!” Create with Context in CNET news: “Backyard wind turbine? There’s an app for that” http://bit.ly/2cVoJv

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Shifting allegiances on the web

Winning the battle of 140,000+ apps