Category Archives: web design
The conversation economy, part 2: there is no conversation economy
I was wrong. As it turns out, conversations are just another kind of experience. I will now be using the term “experience economy”.
I like it better.
Joseph Pine on what consumers want | Video on TED.com.
Why no one will ever care about the boring, complicated crap you’re working on
"Sesame Street was built around a single, breakthrough insight: that if you can hold the attention of children, you can educate them" - Malcolm Gladwell
Review: Panamera.com makes us like Cramer-Krasselt, still hate cars
Eff you Porsche, great website, and bite me.
Monkey presses button monkey gets reward.
The mouse has been around for 40 years and all we tend to do with it is move it from anchor to anchor and click the thing like a primate trapped in a feedback loop. Monkey presses button. Monkey gets reward. Modern interaction design suggests greater possibilities, but that’s just theory. In practice we use [...]
Yahoo is doin it rong
1. Give up on search.
Yeah, it makes me kinda sad, too. Search is just not your thing, Yahoo. Your thing is homepages.
Tagged advertising, strategy, suggestions, web design, yahoo 1 Comment
Retail for Airports
Besides having a rad website, this project – called planeshop for obvious reasons – caught my attention yesterday.
The main thing that got me thinking is their goal that, ideally, the shop will be something new every time you go to the airport. Surprise ftw. Why aren’t more places/websites/videogames/hairstyles like this?
via Leo Burnett.
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Design’s gray areas
Color blindness affects about ten percent of the human population. Which means if you're a commercial artist, someone out there has had to interpret your work in grayscale.
Tagged augmented reality 1 Comment
The copywriter/art director team for the digital ad agency