Design and behaviourism: feedback and social traps
The “Right” Scrolling Direction on your Computer
Google+ Early Adopters Circles Survey
How are Google+ early adopters using the new social network? This survey report shows usage patterns & best practices from other people’s experience. Even if there are many ways to organize your circles, Tribes in which you can identify seem the most effective way to do that, followed by the kind of relation you have and the topics you’re interested in.
Useless Machines: Munari, Calder and Ray
The accidental Design of an Online Comic platform: Google+
South Korean commuters can use a Tesco Virtual Subway Store
Tesco and Cheil created an impressive virtual subway store in South Corea, using QR Codes and mobile applications to deliver an excellent service for the commuters, at a very low cost.
The optimization trap
The optimization trap is a kind of problem that appears when you take a good metric to drive your design choices but you extend it a little too much, ignoring other more important metrics that might be, situation by situation, more important.
“And when you get over the embarrassment, you’re more creative.” – Ed Catmull, Pixar
Dunbar’s Number still limits our sociality in the digital world
Social network tools are surely a powerful tool to extend our social relationships, but even with all their good qualities they can’t help us to overcome what seems the limit of our cortex to process close relationships with more than 100~230 people. A recent research based on 4 years of tweets confirms that limit.
