July 2009

The Spectrum of User Experience

July 22, 2009

I found this post on The Spectrum of User Experience over at the Information Architects Japan site. Nice visualization of forces and how they interact. Although I’m often weary of putting any one thing in the middle. I guess I’m just an anti centrist.

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Brightkite + MS Surface

July 22, 2009

Check out this lovely mashup of Brightkite and the Microsoft Surface quick and dirty proof of concept brightkite + surface mashup. pulls most recent universal feed from brightkite, maps it, allows you to zoom. nothing fancy, just testing out mapping and pulling from RSS and such. Nothing fancy he says? I’d say it’s pretty damn [...]

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The $300 Million Button

July 21, 2009

The $300 Million Button is great article by Jared Spool on the subject of making a simple UX change to get real world results. The key here though, was to listen to the user and give them what they wanted. We were wrong about the first-time shoppers. They did mind registering. They resented having to [...]

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momo: a haptic navigation device

July 18, 2009

momo: a haptic navigation device from kristin on Vimeo.

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Enter Action – Digital Art Now

July 17, 2009

Need some inspiration?  Go an check out Enter Action.  The text is in german, so I’m not sure what the some of the stuff is about.  The videos are in english or have english subtitles.

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Twitter on Surface

July 16, 2009

Like peanut butter and bacon, Twitter and Microsoft’s Surface are two of my favorite things together. Twitter on Surface from Ryan Risley on Vimeo.

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links for 2009-07-15

July 15, 2009

Language Switcher WordPress Plugin, from Poplar ProductivityWare I'm really interested in extending WordPress to support multi-language (tags: multilingual i18n internationalization languages howto blog wordpress)

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links for 2009-07-14

July 14, 2009

How to Build an Online Store With WordPress : WordPress Themes … Just wanted to remember this one. (tags: shop webdesign theme press plugin ecommerce e-commerce Online store wordpress)

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links for 2009-07-13

July 13, 2009

10 Amazing WordPress Plugins for Flickr : Speckyboy Design Magazine I'll need to test some of these out. Sure it's easy to publsih from Flickr to my blog, but I thought it might be nice to do it all while editing. (tags: plugins wordpress-plugins images add-ons list widget photography flickr gallery photos development) WordPress – [...]

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Working with Sketch Flow

July 13, 2009

The official release of Silverlight 3 and Expression Studio 3 was last Friday and I’m really excited about how these products have been evolving. My favorite new feature is Sketch Flow, which I’ve been playing around with for a little while now and have found it to be a great way to build dynamic prototypes. [...]

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