October 23, 2006
IV, meet UX
This is a topic that I’d like to return to once in a while, so here’s getting the ball rolling: Information visualization is one of…
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September 14, 2006
Pattern-based design
Pattern-based design seems to be getting a lot of interest in the UI community lately, and is being taken fairly seriously by some high profile…
September 12, 2006
Changing the rules on real estate
The received wisdom is that the Internet is great for small purchases, the most obvious examples being music (and now movies) from online stores like…
August 30, 2006
Amazon Astore
Amazon has released a new offering to affiliates called “Astore”:http://astore.amazon.com/demostore-20 . It allows anyone to build a custom store of Amazon products, sell them and…
August 15, 2006
Speed publishing
This is one of the most interesting uses of technology to disrupt the publishing industry since Amazon.com. Self publishing has been an interesting idea for…
August 9, 2006
Why I like Time Machine
It’s cool. Admit it: you think it’s cool too. “Time Machine”:http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/timemachine.html, one of Apple’s flashier new innovations for Leopard, lets you go back in the…
July 25, 2006
D’oh
I love using the self-checkout kiosks at my supermarket. If you only have a few items they are quicker than waiting for a teller. Apparently…
June 29, 2006
Cell phone shopping
“Scanbuy”:http://www.scanbuyshopper.com/ShopperConsole/index.htm let’s you comparison shop with your cell phone. I am surprised “Google”:http://www.froogle.com, “AOL”:http://www.pinpointshopping.com or “Yahoo”:http://shopping.yahoo.com/ haven’t done this already.
June 23, 2006
UI inspired by real-world work spaces
“BumpTop”:http://honeybrown.ca/Pubs/BumpTop.html is a three dimensional desktop prototype that takes cues from real-world work spaces. It was designed by students Anand Agarawala and Ravin Balakrishnan who…
June 21, 2006
Eyetracking: Cool, but how helpful?
Eyetracking is becoming somewhat of a hot topic in the UX blogsphere these days. It’s got just the right feel of objective validity mixed with…
June 2, 2006
Innovation is the New Black
Jared Spool has written a great article on how Apple and NetFlix used innovation to create new markets and phenomenal revenue growth. I agree that…
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