Those of you who don’t live in Toronto can probably skip this post. This post isn’t about online information architecture. It is a bit about marketing and communication strategies, but not about mobile or semantic web, or social networks, really. But it is definitely about user experience. This post is inspired by a colleague at [...]
Jonathan Salem Baskin is the author of a book called “Branding Only Works on Cattle.” I haven’t read the book yet, but I’ve checked the foreword and Jonathan’s blog, and I’m particularly fascinated by what Jonathan says about games and branding. Games, and namely video games, are addictive. Just look at the Nintendo Wii craze, [...]
I wrote a new post about augmented reality (AR) – the combination of real world and computer-generated data – in Organic’s Three Minds blog today. There are some very interesting mobile AR applications, like Wikitude for the G1 phone, already available, and Nokia’s launching a similar concept called Point and Find soon. Read the whole [...]
At the Nokia World event in Barcelona, Nokia today unveiled the new N97 ‘mobile computer’, as the company calls it. The feature list of the device, which combines a touchscreen and a QWERTY keybord, easily tops the iPhone’s features, with 32 Gb of inbuilt memory (expandable up to 48 Gb), 5 megapixel camera capable of [...]
The concept of the home of the future, or a ‘smart home’, has been explored since at least the early 20th century. In a smart home, the residents would be able to control everything from lighting and heating to security, audio and video systems by the touch of a button, or perhaps just by entering [...]
Graeme Wood has put together an excellent, comprehensive roundup of what’s happened in marketing and communications, where are we coming from and where are we headed. From the value of a brand in mass marketing to the value of a brand in the world of social media, recommendation and reputation. You can read the whole [...]
Unfortunately I didn’t get to make a trip to CanUX this week, but I’ve been trying to catch up with the material online right away after the workshop. Brandon Schauer actually put his material up already before the end of the conf, and it seems like he held a great workshop on sketchboarding. Check out [...]
Prototypes are a great way to explore design solutions with the developer team and the client, and to even test them with the end user at an early point of the work process. Unlike static wireframes, they let people try out the navigation and test interactions, fill in forms and follow external links. Some UXDs [...]
Couple months ago I bought a digital copy of Luke Wroblewski’s book “Web Form Design – Filling in the Blanks”. Form design may not be as sexy as designing the home page, but well functioning, usable forms are important to users. A badly designed form can easily frustrate users and even drive them away from [...]
It’s winter time in Ontario again (thanks to that, I didn’t miss my brunch today), and tomorrow marks the first day in my new job as Sr. Information Architect at Organic here in Toronto. Though the time I spent at Publicis Modem as IA, helping to build an agile digital team at the traditional mass [...]
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