BlobFisk.com http://blobfisk.com The home of user experience professional Alex Horstmann Thu, 17 May 2012 13:46:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Very nice: Levitated Interaction Element http://blobfisk.com/very-nice-levitated-interaction-element/ http://blobfisk.com/very-nice-levitated-interaction-element/#comments Thu, 17 May 2012 13:46:48 +0000 Alex Horstmann http://blobfisk.com/?p=1223

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Friday Link Round-Up http://blobfisk.com/friday-link-round-up-19/ http://blobfisk.com/friday-link-round-up-19/#comments Fri, 11 May 2012 16:18:32 +0000 Alex Horstmann http://blobfisk.com/?p=1221 The Internet’s Battle For Our Digital Souls (user experience and neuroscience)
http://bigthink.com/ideas/the-internets-battle-for-our-digital-souls

 

Mobile technology is literally changing the way we think
http://conversations.nokia.com/2012/05/10/top-scientist-susan-greenfield-says-mobile-technology-is-literally-changing-the-way-we-think/

 

Content Quality Over Content Quantity
http://experiencematters.criticalmass.com/2012/05/09/content-quality-over-content-quantity/

 

User experience is strategy, not design
http://www.peterme.com/2012/05/04/user-experience-is-strategy-not-design/

 

Quote of the Week:

When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.
- Steve Jobs

 

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Friday Link Round-Up http://blobfisk.com/friday-link-round-up-18/ http://blobfisk.com/friday-link-round-up-18/#comments Fri, 04 May 2012 16:44:06 +0000 Alex Horstmann http://blobfisk.com/?p=1218  

When you know your content is bad
http://blog.braintraffic.com/2012/05/when-you-know-your-content-is-bad/

 

6 Persuasive Product Design Steps to Get Conversions
http://www.zurb.com/article/960/6-persuasive-product-design-steps-to-get-

 

Responsive web design: a project-management perspective
http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/responsive-web-design-a-project-management-perspective/

 

A/B Testing: It’s not about the results, and it’s definitely not about the why
http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3169-ab-testing-its-not-about-the-results-and-its-definitely-not-about-the-why

 

Quote of the week:

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while.

- Steve Jobs

 

 

Video of the week:

http://mashable.com/2012/05/04/texting-behind-the-wheel/

 

 

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Friday Link Round-Up http://blobfisk.com/friday-link-round-up-17/ http://blobfisk.com/friday-link-round-up-17/#comments Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:50:33 +0000 Alex Horstmann http://blobfisk.com/?p=1212  

How Mobile Technologies Are Shaping a New Generation
http://blogs.hbr.org/erickson/2012/04/the_mobile_re-generation.html

 

UX Immersion: The Mobile Frontier
http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1546

 

5 Ways to Create Better iPad Applications
http://uxmag.com/articles/5-ways-to-create-better-ipad-applications

 

Behavior Change as Value Proposition
http://dev.adaptivepath.com/ideas/behavior-change-as-value-proposition

 

Clicks Don’t Count!
http://www.neurosciencemarketing.com/blog/articles/clicks-dont-count.htm

 

Usability testing video games with biometrics
http://www.spotlessinteractive.com/articles/usability-research/usability-testing-video-games-biometrics.php

 

 

Quote of the Week:
“Being a geek is all about your own personal level of enthusiasm, not how your level of enthusiasm measures up to others. If you like something so much that a casual mention of it makes your whole being light up like a halogen lamp, if hearing a stranger fondly mention your favorite book or game is instant grounds for friendship, if you have ever found yourself bouncing out of your chair because something you learned blew your mind so hard that you physically could not contain yourself — you are a geek”

- The Mary Sue (via Curiosity Counts)

 

Video of the Week:

- Viral Video Chart

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Friday Link Round-Up http://blobfisk.com/friday-link-round-up-16/ http://blobfisk.com/friday-link-round-up-16/#comments Fri, 13 Apr 2012 22:08:12 +0000 Alex Horstmann http://blobfisk.com/friday-link-round-up-16/

Semantic web: context for the rest of us

How will the new law on cookies affect internet browsing? (really nice explanation of cookie use here)

Does it have legs? Information Architecture Heuristics for InteractionDesigners

8 Ways to Boost Ecommerce Shopping Cart Conversions

Tracking the Trackers: Guardian initiative to reveal big companies using web tracking and monitoring 

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Friday Link Round-Up http://blobfisk.com/friday-link-round-up-15/ http://blobfisk.com/friday-link-round-up-15/#comments Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:39:26 +0000 Alex Horstmann http://blobfisk.com/?p=1208  

Designing for touch
http://www.netmagazine.com/features/designing-touch

 

Semantic web: context for the rest of us
http://www.tnooz.com/2012/04/12/news/semantic-web-context-for-the-rest-of-us/

 

How will the new law on cookies affect internet browsing? (really nice explanation of cookie use here)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/apr/13/new-law-cookies-affect-internet-browsing

 

Does it have legs? Information Architecture Heuristics for InteractionDesigners
http://www.slideshare.net/AbbyCovert/information-architecture-heuristics

 

8 Ways to Boost Ecommerce Shopping Cart Conversions
http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/32200/8-Ways-to-Boost-Ecommerce-Shopping-Cart-Conversions.aspx

 

Tracking the Trackers: Guardian initiative to reveal big companies using web tracking and monitoring
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/apr/13/tracking-the-trackers-cookies-web-monitors

 

 

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Friday link round-up http://blobfisk.com/friday-link-round-up-14/ http://blobfisk.com/friday-link-round-up-14/#comments Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:44:01 +0000 Alex Horstmann http://blobfisk.com/friday-link-round-up-14/ As I’m back from 2 weeks holidays there’s a bumper Friday Link Round-up this week!

The future of mobile
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-future-of-mobile-deck-2012-3#-1

Behavioral Effects of Digital Signage
http://behavioraltargeting.biz/behavioral-effects-of-digital-signage/ [ SUMMARY ]
http://www.hakonswensonstiftelsen.com/publikationer/Sommarprojekt/Burke%20(2009)%20JAR.pdf [ FULL ]

Innovation Is About Arguing, Not Brainstorming. Here’s How To Argue Productively
http://www.fastcodesign.com/1669329/dont-brainstorm-argue

Mental Modeling For Content Work: Creation
http://danieleizans.com/2012/03/mental-modeling-for-content-work-creation/

Is your organization design ready?
http://www.cooper.com/journal/2012/03/is_your_organization_design_re.html

Emotional Design with A.C.T. – Part 1
http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/emotional-design

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Friday link round-up http://blobfisk.com/friday-link-round-up-13/ http://blobfisk.com/friday-link-round-up-13/#comments Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:40:10 +0000 Alex Horstmann http://blobfisk.com/friday-link-round-up-13/ As I’m back from 2 weeks holidays there’s a bumper Friday Link Round-up this week!

The future of mobile

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-future-of-mobile-deck-2012-3#-1

Behavioral Effects of Digital Signage
http://behavioraltargeting.biz/behavioral-effects-of-digital-signage/ [ SUMMARY ]
http://www.hakonswensonstiftelsen.com/publikationer/Sommarprojekt/Burke%20(2009)%20JAR.pdf [ FULL ]

Innovation Is About Arguing, Not Brainstorming. Here’s How To Argue Productively

http://www.fastcodesign.com/1669329/dont-brainstorm-argue

Mental Modeling For Content Work: Creation

http://danieleizans.com/2012/03/mental-modeling-for-content-work-creation/

Is your organization design ready?

http://www.cooper.com/journal/2012/03/is_your_organization_design_re.html

Emotional Design with A.C.T. – Part 1

http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/emotional-design

Ryanair being investigated over emergency exit row seat charges

http://www.ihateryanair.org/ryanair-being-investigated-over-emergency-exit-row-seat-charges/

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Friday Link Round-Up http://blobfisk.com/friday-link-round-up-12/ http://blobfisk.com/friday-link-round-up-12/#comments Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:44:53 +0000 Alex Horstmann http://blobfisk.com/friday-link-round-up-12/
Designing Perceptual Persuasion

Redefining Hick's Law

Design Interrupted: Design-time Versus Meeting-time

Create better content by working in pairs

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Friday link round-up http://blobfisk.com/friday-link-round-up-11/ http://blobfisk.com/friday-link-round-up-11/#comments Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:54:54 +0000 Alex Horstmann http://blobfisk.com/friday-link-round-up-11/
5 Paradoxes Shaping the Future of Mobile Commerce

Convenience : The third essential of a customer-centric business

Apple sold more iOS devices in 2011 than all the Macs it sold in 28 years

Video of the week:
When We Build / Wilson Miner

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