“…to consumers themselves. To some degree they will do so. But in this age of individuality it will be the ego-centric wish that will be the more powerful driver of demand. “If I can dream it, I can have it.” Wish-based consumables are ego-centric: they are about my impulses based on the pleasure principle.” I [...]
KillerStartups and several other sites featured Fidg’t, developed by the LA-based company Protohaus, as a very promising new tool last year. Fidg’t is a “social networking address book” that promised to help users to aggregate all of their social networking sites and group them into meta contacts. In other words, put all your friends from [...]
Quite a brilliant, benchmark article by Adrian Chan in Johnny Holland Magazine today! Writing about social interaction design, Adrian states that “If the task of conventional software is to provide successful interactions, to inform the user that his actions worked, then what of social media? … Social interaction design works by respecting the psychological and [...]
Here’s a refreshing note on social media from Khoi Vinh. I can very well relate to what Khoi says, but I also like what people say in the comments…
Inspired by this quite old illustration I saw on Flickr, created by Peter Forret, I wanted to create my own version of it. In my version, I added or changed a few examples, and changed the structure of the illustration a bit, but it’s still very similar to Peter’s original. I took out the title [...]
Conceptology is the personal blog of Karri Ojanen, an interaction design leader, usability consultant, creative director and digital marketing strategist. The posts cover a wide area from advertising to corporate culture, mobile technology to social media, and product design to design techniques. . Subscribe via RSS »
