Proximity Interactions (PIx) are one of the missing pieces in today’s digital world but there are good signs that it’s finally coming: a lot of solutions are starting to appear, first of all AirDrop and the whole rumor around the future of television screens, including the Apple TV.
It’s really easy to simplify things and make bold assertions like “designers should code”. As constantly happens, it’s more complicated than that. I will reject that assertion, and I’ll propose what isn’t really a proposal, but an acknowledgment of what’s already done for the best projects out there.
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.
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.
A bit of history and an overview on upcoming technologies to understand the real impact of QR Codes, NFC and augmented reality and how to use them in a well designed journey that can bring more value to both the company and the user.
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.
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.
The social business can be conceived as two pyramids that needs to merge themselves, one from the bottom and one from the top: the balance of the two is able to create a thriving environment for both the company, its employees and its users.
After a few weeks after I wrote my quite successful answer on Quora about OpenID, the issue appeared again now that Twitter announced more fine grained controls… but only on OAuth and my last harsh tweet I did after I read the good article by Gruber on OAuth triggered a nice response again on Twitter. [...]
For years I wanted a feature in Omnigraffle like the Smart Objects in Photoshop and I didn’t know it was right under my eyes: it’s done using a little trick that uses the LinkBack framework. Thanks to Matteo Balocco I discovered this article by Todd Moy “How to Make Master Objects in Omnigraffle” that explains exactly that [...]
