Last night I watched IOUSA on the BBC iPlayer (unfortunately this was over cable TV - I can’t find it on the web iPlayer). It’s a film made by the former US Comptroller General, David Walker, which attempts to convince the viewer of the seriousness of America’s national debt problem.
…and it worked on me. The [...]
In this post, I’m going to try to outline a convergence between two separate trains of thoughts. It might get messy, so bear with me.
Train one (think of this as the Edgware branch of the Northern Line) is search engine optimisation.
One of the areas I’ve been working in a lot recently is search engine optimisation. [...]
A nice week-by-week visualisation of the US box office takings throughout 2008. It gives you a good sense of how quickly many films drop off the radar, and also of the size of the gap between successful movies and (comparative) flops.
As you scroll along to the right, for example, you’ll find yourself thinking that Iron [...]
My friend Lindsey sent me this link earlier on today. It’s a video exploring a future user experience concept, developed by Adaptive Path for Mozilla Labs.
Jill looks at the New York Times website
In the video Jill, the principal user, makes use of a number of futuristic interface devices to:
Interact with a friend while browsing
Extract and [...]
I recommend reading this blog post from Jeffrey Veen, author of “The Art & Science of Web Design”.
You may be familiar with Dr John Snow as the man who successfully traced the source of London’s 1854 cholera outbreak. A pub on Broadwick Street in Soho is named after him, and the water-pump that started it [...]
Recently I carried out some user testing on a late-beta website. At the end of each test session, participants were given a piece of paper listing over 100 adjectives - both positive and negative - and asked to tick the ones most applicable to the website they’d been using.
As the week of testing came to [...]
What are mind mapping tools? In short, they aim to visualise the conceptual relationships that make up the structure of thought.
When used for project planning they allow you to break down the central objective into a set of smaller, inter-related items - these items can then be arranged hierarchically. The end result is an at-a-glance [...]