Microsoft envisions 2019
Digital credit cards, newspaper, key. Msn always one step ahead
Microsoft’s Future Vision Series - Microsoft’s 2019 Future Vision Montage: Envisioning the Future HD
Telling interactive stories - The New York Times
Last night I listened Andrew DeVigal depicting his stories around the multimedia work he does for The New York Times. It was my first event as a member of New York Chapter of the Usability Professionals Association and it was an inspiring one.
Andrew showcased some amazing articles that I want to share:
- Exonerated, Freed, and What Happened Then -Moving stories of more than 130 prisoners that have been exonerated by DNA evidence in the United States
- Deadly Rampage at Virgina Tech The events at Virgina Polytechnic Institute are visually represented in 3D
- Casualties of War - Faces of the Dead - The analysis tab show an amazing number, much higher than the 9/11 one
- And my favorite one 2008 Election - Choosing a President
British Humanist Association Campain - Using provocation to communicate
There’s a lot of controversy around a British campaign on 800 buses that says “There’s probably NO GOD. Now stop worry and enjoy your life”. The church answer was, of course, “There’s no proof that god doesn’t exist, this campaign should be stopped”
Here are some photos:
Eco Friendly Font
I stopped printing a very long time ago, and mobiles help me with that process.
But there are times when I have no choice but to press the print button
For those times it seems I can help the environment by using 20% less ink. Spranq creative communication (Utrecht, The Netherlands) developed a new eco font- EcoFont. It’s free to download and use and it’s similar to Dutch Cheese, it has small holes in it. The readibility is maintained but some small circles were removed from the body. Go Green!
Our Before and After Slideshow in the Spotlight on SlideShare
Just got an email from SlideShare after my upload yesterday:
”
Hi AlinutzaV!
Your presentation Before And After iterating.net is currently being showcased on the ‘Design’ page by our editorial team.
It’s likely to be there for the next 16-20 hours.”
Here it is in the spotlight:
Web Designs Trends for 2009 arrived at Smashing Magazine
Smashing Magazine identified 10 trends for 2009:
1. Letterpress
How people really use the iPhone
We believe the iPhone has the most intuitive interface anyone can think of, all you have to do is tap, but we forget about a different type of demographics. The ones with a less geeky background
A study has been done in Santa Clara by “Create with Context” to see how people really use this gadget. And they’ve been kind enough to share their findings with us
The research has focused on older, non-trendy demographic:
- Ages ranging from 30-55
- With disposable income and purchase technology for self-consumption
The discoveries are very interesting. I took the liberty to share some screens from their presentations to show some interesting aspects
The $300 Million Button
On “User Interface Engineering” Jared Spool talks about an experience that changed an online business forever.
It was the removal of one tiny user form that is required on every website that increased the sales with extra $15M in the first month. And an additional $300M in that year.
To discover what was driving the customers away, the CEO decided to hire some usability experts. After they conducted a series of tests they discovered the head slapper. The customers were annoyed that after they spent time adding the products in their cart, to purchase they needed to create an account. So they would just exit the site. They “didn’t want to create a relationship”, they wanted to buy
