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Going home (Taken with Instagram at E20)

Wed, 27 Jul 2011 15:11:46 -0400

Going home (Taken with Instagram at E20)

A Few Successful Things Focus Groups Hated

Sat, 05 Mar 2011 07:13:10 -0500

A Few Successful Things Focus Groups Hated:

First National City Bank (now Citibank) tested an early version of the ATM in the 1960s. According to a write-up of the experiment, “It seems the only people using the machines were a small number of prostitutes and gamblers who didn’t want to deal with tellers face to face.”

Two of…

An interesting presentation from Josh Clark about designing...

Wed, 02 Mar 2011 07:32:00 -0500

An interesting presentation from Josh Clark about designing iPhone interfaces for delight and usability. It gives good examples on how to optimize your app for certain tasks and then optimize the hell out of them! Cut all the crap and focus on the user’s specific task, I like that. And I like the 3 design principles from the users point of view, when you make an app:

I’m microtasking
I’m local
I’m bored

You’ve got one part of that wrong: This - is NOT meth From...

Wed, 16 Feb 2011 02:46:15 -0500

You’ve got one part of that wrong: This - is NOT meth

From Breaking Bad, my new favourite series! About a high school chemistry teacher who gets diagnosed with lung cancer. To secure his family he starts cooking and selling meth…

Money machine

Sun, 13 Feb 2011 08:18:23 -0500

Money machine

I love GraphJam's poor mental models!

Wed, 09 Feb 2011 05:24:48 -0500

When I look at GraphJam from a UX view, I see a lot of funny examples on mental models gone bad: The intended use of a product can be very different from the actual perception or use of it. Like:

Not really using google translate for translation
Not really using the phone for communication
Not really using glasses for watching 3D films
Not really using superglue for gluing materials

Dinner’s ready!

Fri, 04 Feb 2011 12:14:49 -0500

Dinner’s ready!

UFO in Copenhagen?

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 08:02:54 -0500

UFO in Copenhagen?

"Generally, persons who take part of an entertainment experience like to FEEL, an education..."

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 05:42:00 -0500

“Generally, persons who take part of
an entertainment experience like to FEEL,
an education experience like to LEARN,
an esthetic experience like to BE THERE,
an escapism experience like to DO.”

- Lena Mossberg about Event Experiences

I’m reviewing my friends master thesis about experience economy at museums and found a new “friend”, Professor Lena Mossberg - Lot of interesting points on this subject.

Online Art Stories

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 10:10:00 -0500

Online Art Stories:

The National Gallery of Denmark just launched Art Stories, a new portal for exploring art. It’s a part of a programme that should bring the museum to the forefront of digital arts communication.

I like:

Different entry points in the IA to the art pieces: Works, Artists, Stories and Tracks.
Expanded content via connections to other museums’ collections.
The possibility to look beneath the surface of an art piece with X-rays.

I miss:

User involvement: Since the portal is about stories, this is an obvious way to let users participate. The National Gallery write, that they work with users as co-creators - let’s hope this will be a part of the portal in the future.
Mobile access: I miss it a lot! Both to browse the content at a mobile device and some options for using it at the museum (like the MoMA iPhone app).

Dear National Gallery, if you want to bring the museum to the forefront of digital arts communication, please consider user involvement and other digital platforms than the computer! This is by all means the future.

markralphs: Interactive shopping window in Stockholm promoting...

Sun, 23 Jan 2011 17:15:34 -0500

markralphs:

Interactive shopping window in Stockholm promoting Swedish streetwear brand WeSC.

By Hyper Island.

WHAT IS YOUR EARLIEST HUMAN MEMORY?

Sat, 04 Dec 2010 09:00:00 -0500

My childhood dog Buster peeing in our newbuild house