January 2012
14 posts
“My heart belongs to the details. I actually always found them to be more...”
– Dieter Rams - Dieter Rams’ 10 principles of good web design
“Among all teens, the frequency of use of texting has now overtaken the frequency...”
– Number Crunching: The Top 51 stats for Generation Y marketers
“As merchants seek to expand their technology around pricing, behavioral...”
– Behavioral Pricing: A consumer’s worst nightmare, a merchant’s dream
“But few of the big media properties have gotten with the times and opened their...”
– A Fantasy App Store? CBS Sports To Launch “First Open Platform” For Fantasy Sports
“A new survey from Zmags investigates the connected consumer and their digital...”
– 87% Of Connected Consumers Prefer Websites & Mobile Sites Over Apps
“In a demonstration of its confidence in the future of HTML5, business newspaper...”
– Betting Big on the Future of HTML5, Financial Times Buys Dev Shop
“Design store Fab.com, has seen a huge surge in mobile use since launching mobile...”
– Fab.com: mobile shoppers buy twice as often as web visitors
“SMS has three beautiful elements why it would be (and should be) a strong...”
– Tomi Ahonen
“A well-run meeting is a great thing; it empowers people to make decisions, solve...”
– Start-Up Speed
“Speed isn’t just a feature, it’s the feature.”
– The Google Gospel of Speed
“In the amount of time it takes you to read this page, roughly 382 Android phones...”
– Google’s Think Quarterly - Speed
“Publication designer Roger Black argues in a world of content, designers and...”
– 15 top web design and development trends for 2012
December 2011
8 posts
“So, instead of large pain points, you should spend your time looking...”
– Four ways to spot markets ripe for disruption
“A brand pattern creates consistency between the Artifacts, Behaviors, and...”
– Branding Is About Creating Patterns, Not Repeating Messages
“A brand pattern is more than how a brand looks. It is the coherence and...”
– Branding Is About Creating Patterns, Not Repeating Messages
“Creating a pattern around smaller ideas generates deeper recognition than...”
– Branding Is About Creating Patterns, Not Repeating Messages
“Under an agreement reached this week with labor representatives, staff members...”
– Volkswagen Agrees to Curb Company E-Mail in Off Hours
“Felton says the main lesson he learned from the experience of designing and...”
– Designers Behind Facebook Timeline: 5 Lessons For Creating A UI With Soul
November 2011
2 posts
“Change be can scary, but there’s a huge difference between intelligent,...”
– We didn’t have [x] when I was a kid and I turned out okay - Scott McLeod, Big Think
“In the tech industry, the most promising path to victory has always been to...”
– Farhad Manjodo - Tech Edge, Fast Company
October 2011
6 posts
“From the second quarter of 2010 to the second quarter of 2011, mobile data...”
– Data Monday: Mobile Internet Use
“We believe in those first three clicks, you decide whether or not you want to...”
– For Zynga, success lies in the first three clicks
“Zynga aspires to make all its games pass what the company calls the “three...”
– For Zynga, success lies in the first three clicks
“A product is useless without a platform, or more precisely and accurately, a...”
– Stevey’s Google Platforms Rant
September 2011
5 posts
“The transition strategies are more important than understanding what the outcome...”
– Sean Parker
“But generally, I can’t shake off the feeling that that QR codes are like...”
– Y Combinator Ad Innovation Conference: What Stuck
“Count kilobytes like top models count kilograms. Performance matters on mobile.”
– Breaking Dev: Breaking the Mobile Web
“Cooking is a language through which all the following properties may be...”
– Synthesis of elBulli cuisine
August 2011
18 posts
“In 10 years over 40% of the Fortune 500 will no longer be here.”
– Relevant Social Media Statistics for 2011
“I wanted to share a great experience I had when something went wrong. Shit...”
– Great customer service from the Mission Bicycle Company
“Over two-thirds of all items purchased in iOS and Android freemium games are...”
– Two-thirds of in-app game buys have fleeting value
“A free online course at Stanford University on artificial intelligence, to be...”
– Virtual and Artificial, but 58,000 Want Course - NYTimes.com
“In addition to gathering data, skin-mounted electronics could provide the...”
– Electronic Temporary Tattoo Marks Breakthrough In Health Monitoring
“APIs are often an afterthought and the company’s best resources are not...”
– Api Integration Pain - Survey Results
“Two tools in particular are helping businesses find talent: Skills and Similar...”
– LinkedIn’s Algorithm Taps Talent Graph, But Still Needs Human Touch | Fast Company
“Clearly, 10,000 hours are rarely required. A subsequent study on Australian...”
– Talent, training and performance: The secrets of success
“Another example of sensation transference: 7-up added 15% more yellow to the...”
– Sarah Parmenter - An Event Apart in Minneapolis, MN 2011
“Goals lead down to principles. Principles lead down to patterns.”
– Jeremy Keith - An Event Apart in Minneapolis, MN 2011
“Today, we don’t need committees. We need leaders on the agency and client...”
– Brand Building: Fear Decisions By Committee
“Many iPad owners are reluctant to log into websites or apps on the iPad because...”
– Five lessons from a year of tablet UX research
“The industry average click-through rate for ads is 0.52% and Android users hover...”
– Jumptap - MobileStat July 2011 (PDF)
“A smartphone might involve as many as 250,000 (largely questionable) patent...”
– When Patents Attack Android