Nov 02, 2006
Customers and Community
More fun
The people on Zune get it, too. It’s about the fun, stupid. Check out this Zune ad up on YouTube, entitled The Ballad of Lion and Gazelle.
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Nov 02, 2006
UI Design
More about fun user experiences
Back in July, I talked about the important role that fun plays in great user experiences. A sense of fun, playfulness, or adventurousness goes a long way towards making your software or website more inviting to current or potential customers. Of c...
Nov 01, 2006
Innovation
David Pogue Looks Back at 2006
David Pogue has an article in the NY Times today about some of the technological highlights of the year. I find it interesting how much he hates Windows and Windows Mobile, as shown here: The turkeys of the year: Microsoft’s Ultra Mobile PC comput...
Oct 31, 2006
Innovation
Motorola Unveils a âDumbâ Phone
It seems almost painfully obvious, in a way, but some people don’t actually want more features, doodads, gizmos, or gewgaws sticking out of their phone (admittedly, I’m not one of them: I still want GPS, 3G data, Wi-Fi, and a qwerty keyboard on my...
Oct 30, 2006
Apple
Emerging Fully Formed from Steve Jobsâ Forehead
Steven Levy has one of the most sycophantic and interesting articles about the iPod I’ve ever read up on Wired this month. The article sheds light on a number of interesting and new-to-me aspects of the iPod’s creation, like this anecdote about po...
Oct 29, 2006
Letterman rocks
You're trying to put words in my mouth just the way you put artificial facts in your head. Crooks and Liars has the Letterman interview of Bill O’Reilly up. Good stuff.
Oct 29, 2006
Web Design
HTML to be incrementally improved
Apparently, the W3C just isn’t getting enough uptake on XHTML, because it’s simply too hard to shove people in the right direction: The attempt to get the world to switch to XML, including quotes around attribute values and slashes in empty tags a...
Oct 29, 2006
Windows Mobile
Flash Lite 2.1 Preview for Windows Mobile 5
Apparently, I’m late to get on the bandwagon, but I just found out that Adobe released a preview of Flash Lite 2.1 for Windows Mobile 5 last month. I think this is a pretty big deal. With this, you’re now able able to deploy Flash content on Symbi...
Oct 28, 2006
UI Design
Unexpected value in paper prototyping
Jan Miksovsky talks about unexpected value found in ‘crude’ prototyping: A counter-intuitive principle of soliciting early design feedback is that people reviewing a highly polished design may concentrate on superficial details and overlook fundam...
Oct 28, 2006
Cheer up, emo kid!
I dyed my hair black for halloween earlier today. I also bought black eyeliner and the world’s ugliest button up sweater. I am, god’s word, being an emo kid for halloween. In a few minutes, I am going to wander over to QFC and buy a six pack of PB...