I was poking around HP’s trying to figure out why my All-in-One isn’t as multiple-computer friendly as I’d like, and after an entire experience all in English, I noticed something was odd.
Like the navigation was no longer in English, even though the articles I was reading were.
Some how, I clicked into HP’s Italian site. I’ve […]
Twitter is three things:
Really fast platform-agnostic publishing (browser, SMS, IM, etc)
Yet another ‘friend’ collecting site
Yet another centralized, free, publishing service
Slow, almost to the point of unusable
As you can see from my list, I’m only excited about the first one (inspiring the qspress script). I’d love for you to receive the posts at this or any […]
So I’m a Flash Guy, but here’s my current dilemma.
Currently I have no site of of my own. I used to host JakeFreeberg.com off a machine at home, but that’s just a bad solution. It allowed me to play with WordPress and MovableType installs and learn a few things, I really need to put some […]
Ben Moore, from Curbly, talks about the need for a project to start with the interface design. All his points are dead on.
In my decade of experience, a website isn’t real to clients until they see some pictures, sketches, something, anything. With this in mind, my goal is to provide initial wireframes (black and […]
Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., received a “Silver Mouse” award for having one of the 10 best websites in the Senate.
Read the full list of our elected finest’s web creations.
“A rapid-response web effort has never been more important to crisis communications. That won’t work when home pages of web sites are designed as Flash-driven promotional tools, not information centers.” - Ben McConnell
I played around with Pipes and aside from loosely matching iTunes songs with YouTube videos or loosely matching Flickr photos with NY Times articles, I’ve yet to ‘get it’.
The interface itself is pretty - and seemingly powerful and simple. Reminiscent of Microsoft’s Visual Basic or Apple’s Automator. But in the end, Pipes is chartjunk - […]
or, why MySpace is so popular.
“Our analysis left us without any correlation between the number of times users clicked and their success in finding the content they sought.” - Joshua Porter
Bonus:
Long scrolling pages (like this one) are OK.
“76% of the page-views with a scroll-bar, were scrolled to some extent.” - ClickTale Blog
If you’re looking for a way to quickly compare population, unemployment, or say - median household income - check out Social Explorer
Here’s household income based on the 2000 Census - zoomed into the Twin Cities
http://eightandfive.com/2006/12/22/flash-developers-first-impressions-of-wiis-internet-channel/
(Â sorry I decided to post to another blog I contribute to, but seems to sort of fit what we’re covering here as well )
Have something to say about experience design, art, architecture, the weather, etc.? Write for MNteractive!
