February 2012
23 posts
“Never confuse motion with action.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“To all the doubters and individuals who believe we can’t change I ask this:...”
– Lynda Leblanc in reply to Richard Branson’s Antarctica log 11
“What this means is that designing applications for mobile means that context—for...”
– The New Interface Is There Is No interface
“We used to treat computers like a tool, something that helps you do a task. Now...”
– The coming age of the smart personal assistant
“Don’t confuse context with intent. Being on a small screen doesn’t change...”
– Josh Clark: Busting Mobile Myths
“If 2011 was the year of the mobile consumer, 2012 is the year of the mobile...”
– Brian Solis - 2011 Was the Year of the Mobile Consumer, What’s in Store for 2012? Value.
“Carrefour’s problems are a mere rumble compared with the earthquake that is...”
– The Economist: Schumpeter - The coming retail boom
WatchHelge Tennø - The Next 80%
“What people say they do and what they do are two different things. Questions can...”
– An Event Apart: Hacking Users Brains
“A design is intuitive when current knowledge is equal to target knowledge. A...”
– An Event Apart: Properties of Intuitive Web Pages
“A web application is a “living” thing and all living things are continually...”
– Luke Wroblewski, Author, Mobile First
“Never follow your dreams. Follow your effort. It’s not about what you can dream...”
– Mark Cuban
“In professing that API design should not be centered around any one single mode...”
– Netflix’ Daniel Jacobson: Letting APIs Change Everything
“What we today call the “mobile app” could, in a very short period of...”
– Netflix’ Daniel Jacobson: Letting APIs Change Everything
WatchJane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world
“Building scale is hard, very hard. But if you already have scale, then you have...”
– The Dirty Little Secret Of Silicon Valley’s Startup Boom…
“So, do we really have a startup boom? Or is it a masquerade, a proxy for a...”
– The Dirty Little Secret Of Silicon Valley’s Startup Boom…
“As Facebook is not a paying service, you are not the customer, you are the...”
– Rory Cellan-Jones (BBC)
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