This article provides a good introduction to the ideas behind experience design.
Monthly Archives: March 2010
how to read more books
[ mark bernstein ] Aaron Swartz on how to read more books – a couple of workable solutions, and a couple of unworkable ones.
DVD: X-Men Origins: Wolverine
DVD: X-Men Origins: Wolverine This comic book inspired movie, created as a prequel to the X-Men trilogy, has all the explosions and special effects you might hope for in this genre, but for me seemed just too shallow. Sure, there were a couple of plot twists and some funny lines, but it might have been …
Sincerity, gravity and levity
President’s day at Macalester College, Minnesota, from the viewpoint of Brian Rosenberg, the President of Macalester College – has something of a David Letterman sensibility to it.
What might have happened if the internet was not invented?
John Lampard has an insightful little hypothetical day-in-the-life of what might have happened if the internet was not invented. Reminds me a lot of my first year of uni in 1994, when floppy discs were still a significant form of data transfer.
5 Types of Emails You Should be Automatically Filtering
Perhaps you’ve been signing up for a lot of different mailing lists. Maybe your friends are forwarding you things you don’t want to read straight away (if at all). Why not set up your email program so that these messages are automatically sent to an email folder that you check less frequently? There’s no reason …
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The Art of Selling an Expensive Watch
When I read this headline, I couldn’t imagine this being done – who has that kind of money lying around, but still: there are some insights here into how people communicate. How to Sell a $35,000 Watch in a Recession.
The Social Landscape for Marketers
[ Servant of Chaos ] The Social Landscape for Marketers – a chart that explains the strengths and weaknesses of a number of different social networking sites, across categories of customer communication, brand exposure, traffic to site, and search engine optimisation. For good measure, here’s a chart with some facts and figures about Google.
Upcoming BBC redesign
A detailed, example-filled overview of the new global visual language for the BBC’s digital services.
Movie: The Men who Stare at Goats
Movie: The Men who Stare at Goats Decided to see this one after seeing the trailer, and so when Popcorn Taxi announced their screening of the men who stare at goats Kel and I decided to head along. Unusually for a popcorn taxi screening, there were some empty seats in the cinema – I think …