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- Curators of the Real-Time Web
Title 2: Distilling the chatter to relevant, actionable information Information wants to flow and it wants to flow freely and torrentially. Twitter , SMS, ema ...
Article - Jonathan Gosier - May 05, 2010 - 11 comments - 0 attachments
- Facebook updates its Communication Channels Best Practices
Facebook has updated its Communication Channels Best Practices. A must-read for any developers who want their apps to be "streamlined, clear, and less spammy." http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Communication_Channels_B ...
Article - Alex Schleifer - March 04, 2010 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Streams of Content, Limited Attention
In his seminal pop-book , Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi argued that people are happiest when they can reach a state of " flow ." He talks about performers and athletes who are in the height of their profession, the experience they feel as time passes ...
Article - danah boyd - February 25, 2010 - 14 comments - 0 attachments
- What You Really Get From a Heuristic Evaluation
Every user experience researcher I know gets requests to do heuristic evaluations. But it isn't always clear that the requester actually knows what is involved in doing a heuristic evaluation. That happens. If I had a dollar for every time someone c ...
Article - Dana Chisnell - February 19, 2010 - 14 comments - 0 attachments
- Onboarding: Designing Welcoming First Experiences
Last May I was given the great privilege to write a sidebar in Christian Crumlish and Erin Malone 's fabulous new book, Designing Social Interfaces . The topic I was asked to write about is " onboarding "—designing welcoming experiences ...
Article - Whitney Hess - February 16, 2010 - 18 comments - 0 attachments
- Google introduces MyTwitterbook (aka Buzz)
This could be big. Google is introducing a new set of social networking tools to Gmail. From media sharing to status updates, Google Buzz let's you use your Gmail contact list as what is essentially a "friend list". This makes it compete with literally ...
Article - Alex Schleifer - February 09, 2010 - 1 comment - 0 attachments
- Augmented reality virtual dressing room
Ordinarily it's a bad idea to allow the Flash Player access to your webcam if you're standing in front of your computer naked or in your underwear, but we may have found an exception to that rule. Zugara and Rich Relevance have teamed u ...
Article - Jonathan Anderson | UX Magazine - December 14, 2009 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Big Changes Coming to Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg posted an open letter today about some possibly far reaching changes: the phasing out of regional networks. This will affect over half of the 350 million Facebook users. While sites like Twitter seem to be releasing a fea ...
Article - Alex Schleifer - December 02, 2009 - 4 comments - 0 attachments
- Designing Exceptional Mobile Experiences
If you were to draft a profile for a UX thought leader, you'd likely come up with something that closely resembled Kim Lenox. Known for resetting the perimeters of everyday problem solving, Kim has devoted her career to making life—if not the world—bett ...
Article - Kim Lenox, Timothy J. Wood - December 03, 2009 - 1 comment - 0 attachments
- Trendsmap puts trends on the map
Nice Twitter & Google Maps mash-up that adds another dimention to trending. We'd love to see a bit more action once you focus on smaller cities, towns and even countries but loving the UI and overall execution. Article Image: ...
Article - Alex Schleifer - September 22, 2009 - 0 comments - 0 attachments