behaviour
The future of shopping
Love this video from Resource Interactive… it’s like a visualisation of the way my brains been working recently.
Competitor Benchmarking
We’re not supposed to give secrets away are we? Oh well… let’s break the rules & throw caution to the wind… I’m going to give you a leg-up on competitor benchmarking because it’s one of the most important tasks we perform in UX. The term “benchmarking” is relatively new but the concept is as old [...]
Attention Economics
Attention economics is an approach to the management of information that treats human attention as a scarce commodity, and applies economic theory to solve various information management problems.
Mobile Access 2010
The following stats come from a survey conducted by Pew Research at the end of 2010. It’s based on data collected from a survey in the U.S, however it’s fair to assume that relatively speaking the stats reflect behavioral shifts across most Western markets. As of May 2010, 59% of all adults go online wirelessly. [...]
15 Principles of successful web apps
Please note the last 5 principals have been cribbed from ‘Shortboredsurfer‘ and great principals they are too. It’s not my intention to claim them as my own, just compile them with the others I collected to provide a list I think is the most useful. The following functional principals, along with the measurements of Usefulness, [...]
My top experiences of 2010
It’s getting difficult to judge campaigns & digital work based solely on usability these days because there really is a lot of blur around the topic of ‘best practice’… It’s really all about accessibility (how easy it is to take part in the proposed experience rather than the traditional accessibility of inclusiveness for people with [...]
EPIC
There’s an interesting view of the future of digital media consumption I’ve been hearing bits and pieces about codenamed “EPIC”. The ‘Evolving Personalized Information Construct’. The basic vision is that at some point there needs to be a new type of media browser or a future evolution of something like Firefox which becomes the system [...]
We’re not saving babies, remember?
First rule of business – Follow that smart bit in your brain that got you to where you are called ‘Instinct’. Second rule of business – Listen to the symptoms of rule #1 and if it’s telling you something isn’t right or things don’t fit, or it’s a no-win situation you formulate an exit strategy [...]
The user is always right. We’re not.
I’ve come to terms with the fact that whether or not I like it, I’m what the industry has dubbed a ‘user experience’ or ‘UX’ practitioner. Oh the indignity… I’m a closet coder, a designer, an alright I.A, a marketing snob, a digital evangelist and sometimes when I’m in the right space a pretty good [...]
