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Insights on designing for social traction
A tweet by @DrBaher pointed to this great slideshow by @bokardo, Designing for Social Traction. At the highest level, it posits that there are 3 core problems to designing social software: The Sign-up Problem The First time Use Problem The Ongoing Engagement Problem Product managers, developers and designers would do well to spend some time [...]
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Sketching and thinking
I am currently reading Bill Buxton’s Sketching User Experiences. It’s an incredible book that expounds upon the value of user experience design and makes a compelling argument that sketching as a means of thinking is the entry point for UX. It is truly the first design book to inspire me since Understanding Comics: The Invisible [...]
iPhone app mistakes
500 million downloads breakdown, by Gizmodo. Larger version (Copyright: Gizmodo) Smashing Magazine has a great post on the five most common iPhone app mistakes. They enumerate them as: Over-blown visuals. Neglecting technological limitations, such as slow Internet connection, slow processors and single-threaded OS architectures. Confusing navigation (flow, layout and taxonomy). Confusing the iPhone with a [...]
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Remarkd is defunct, but I still ♥ Remarkd.
There is a lot I could say about my experience with Remarkd, but I'm not going to go incredibly deep into it right now. As a tribute, I think it'd be fun to post some of the iterations the concept has gone through. Tradr concept- July 2007 This was the initial idea I had for [...]
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GOOG’s SearchWiki double standard
November 22, 2008 Google launched a somewhat controversial new feature: SearchWiki: This new feature is an example of how search is becoming increasingly dynamic, giving people tools that make search even more useful to them in their daily lives. We have been testing bits and pieces of SearchWiki for some time through live experiments, and [...]
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poem for you
From: “Andrew Rivera” Date: May 20, 2008 12:27:54 PM PDT To: “Clay Newton” Subject: poem for you Killing time between flights. Terminal 1 looks like it should be in the US. All restaurants and shops are A… Had 3 hours between my flight into Guadalajara and my flight into Hermosillo. This airport is BORING> For [...]
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A/B Testing 101