December 2011
69 posts
Frontiers through the Ages
dbreunig:
Water, 1400
Land, 1840
Gold, 1850
Wire, 1880
Air, 1900
Celluloid, 1920
Plastic, 1950
Space, 1960
Silicon, 1980
Networks, 1990
Data, 2000
Checking in (again) with Foursquare’s Dennis... →
So when people say, you’re all about the check-in — well, we are; check-ins give us a ton of data points. But it’s the same thing as Twitter: Not everyone on Twitter tweets. There are people who don’t even know how to send tweets that are getting a lot of value out of Twitter. We’re mimicking that pattern.
Foursquare has a lot of useful urban data. I watch and search more than I share. I...
“Quite certainly those flying machines will carry folded parachutes, and the last...”
– H.G. Wells, Anticipations: Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress Upon Human Life and Thought http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/12/predicting-future-war-what-hg-wells-got-right-and-wrong/250595/
“According to the Center for an Urban Future, “freelance businesses has been a...”
– Anthony Townsend, Art as Personal Business in the City: Brooklyn’s Creative Freelance Economy via IFTF’s Future Now (via stoweboyd)
Crossing the e-commerce chasm through “experience... →
Making it difficult to comprehend where one experience ends and another begins in a seamlessly interconnected clienteling effort is the most clear and present opportunity for mobile to make a positive impact on the luxury shopper’s experience with the brand.
Mobiluxe pairs today’s mobile/retail intersection opportunity with a stunningly relevant Don Draper quote.
Mobile-First Responsive Web Design | Brad Frost... →
By removing convenient user assumptions (Of course the user has a strong connection! Of course they have AJAX support!), you’re forced to provide a dirt-simple way for users to achieve their goals. Enhancing that experience to take advantage of any extra screen real estate and device capabilities creates a better user experience that translates all the way up. Win win win.
“Instead of closing down and arresting everyone in a crack house, it’s like...”
– U.S. Representative Jared Polis SOPA for Dummies
IBM Reveals Five Innovations That Will Change Our... →
Advances in renewable energy technology will allow individuals to collect this kinetic energy, which now goes to waste, and use it to help power our homes, offices and cities.
Imagine attaching small devices to the spokes on your bicycle wheels that recharge batteries as you pedal along. You will have the satisfaction of not only getting to where you want to go, but at the same time...
Web design predictions for 2012 | Webdesigner... →
Speaking of responsive web-design, I’m positive we will see a lot of changes in advertising and how ads are displayed on the web. We may see a shift in how people monetize their sites and develop streams of revenues. Responsive ads is one thing, but I think that adaptive web-design means more than just throwing in some media queries, it means we have to re-think how content is laid out, and...
New iPhone App Connects Strangers Around the World... →
“What Wander does is create impossible connections with people who you would never meet, allowing users to explore life in other countries in an interactive, meaningful way.”
Hitchhiker’s babelfish meets Foursquare/Instagram. Neat! It’d be sweet to backpack with something like this, but things could quickly get unscrupulous.
Big Spaceship Think - 5 lessons in digital... →
The Louis CK way: Relinquish control. Go to where your audience is (in this case, Reddit). Don’t try to force yourself into the conversation. Simply say, I am at your service.
I’m eager to see how well this works for people that aren’t Louis CK. I’m hard pressed to think of a comedian with more audience clout, and I seem to have a rather unpopular skepticism about the...
“The language of Kickstarter is video, text is secondary.”
– Kickstarted: How one company is revolutionizing product development | The Verge
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5 Lessons From The Best Interaction Designs Of... →
Technologies like cheap sensors and cloud computing are increasingly being used to augment our daily lives in both magical and mundane ways. Everything we do is an app in the making (a million and counting).
“Their aims, they said earlier this year, are ‘full communism, with lulz as...”
– Who Are The ‘IKEA Anarchists’? @PSFK
it's tudly tuesday
drop everything
Disruptions: Wearing Your Computer on Your Sleeve... →
Technology often has a way of fixing the problems it creates. Here’s one that needs solving.
The invention of the smartphone has created a world where millions of people stroll through life constantly staring into a mobile device, like Narcissus at the edge of a pond.
Implants, man. 2012 resolution - become a cyborg.
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Delusion, New York Caliber
originally posted to xtmp:
I’m consistently impressed with the ability of some (or, as I’ll argue, most) New Yorkers’ abilities to invent completely new realities and live within them. I suppose when a crush of citygoers surround you at all times, each forging their own path through a chaotic metropolis, there’s a certain compulsion to craft a narrative that places you on...
“Maybe we didn’t get flying cars because we realized that flying cars are stupid....”
– The Urban Bike Snob
“Jobs designed products that were intuitive and exceeded the user’s expectations....”
– Piers Fawkes: Siri’s Not Working @PSFK
Slow Motion Video of Dogs In Cars Is Five Minutes... →
need a smile? you’re welcome. :)
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Be Steve Jobs →
I recently (finally) finished both Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs and Aaron Shapiro’s Users Not Customers.
The HUGE CEO penned this article following Steve’s step down as CEO of Apple. Like his book’s vividly detailed focus, it boils Jobs as a leadership figure down to his single premise: “Never compromise the user experience.”
From UI to industrial design,...
New York City's Digital Deficiency | Fast Company →
You are circling the block yet again, desperately seeking a parking space—and then you remember there’s an app for that. You whip out your phone and pull up Roadify, the high-profile winner of New York City’s second BigApps contest, which is supposed to provide a real-time list of parking spaces near your location. You watch as Roadify loads and quickly discover there are no free parking spaces...
The Next 5 Computer Form Factors →
Cyborgs.
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Effective User Research And Transforming The Minds... →
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