via userflow:
Not all website visitors are created equal. Users come from different sources, with varying levels of knowledge and engagement, and with different goals. It’s up to you as a user experience designer to map those in-bound user flows to conversion funnels that provide value to the user as well as the business.
via lookalign:
evolution of foursquare
Little Printer lives in your home, bringing you news, puzzles and gossip from your friends. Use your smartphone to set up subscriptions and Little Printer will gather them together to create a timely, beautiful mini-newspaper.
For more see: http://bergcloud.com/littleprinter/
The announcement: http://bergcloud.com/2011/11/29/announcing-little-printer-and-berg-cloud/
UX as an Effective Marketing Tool
Hipmunk, a startup in San Francisco, entered the crowded online travel search market in 2010. Their approach was novel: show all the most relevant results on a single page, and help users visualize the tradeoffs between the options. In doing so they bypassed the traditional product strategies in travel search, which relied on saturating the user with either features or ads. Adam Goldstein, Hipmunk’s co-founder and CEO, will explain the ideas and execution behind Hipmunk’s unique take on travel search, and how a singular focus on UX has given Hipmunk the most fanatical following of any travel search site in the last decade.
28 years young!
Most companies are looking to “wow” with their products, when in reality what they should be looking for is an “of course” reaction.
BBC Weather Redesign Process
via ckalima:
An awesome post by Melanie Seyer, the lead designer of the BBC Weather product within BBC Future Media, outlining the process and thinking behind their mid-November refresh.
A seven-foot motion-actived interactive wall we developed for the national fitness chain; Bally Total Fitness.
“The wall includes four separate applications – an unprecedented variety of functions for a device of its size and complexity. The most simple is the Bally Logo Break, which helps users learn how to control the screen by shattering the familiar red Bally logo into many smaller pieces, then moving them around to reveal fitness and nutrition tips. The Nutrition Wall application helps users gain knowledge that will help them inside the gym and out. The Workout Counselor enables gym members make the most out of their experience, providing exercise recommendations to target specific muscle groups. Finally, the Future Self application is a sort of “funhouse mirror” that shows users what they might look like if they keep at their workout routines.” - Manifest Digital Blog
Technical details:
- Developed with Adobe Flash (actionscript 3) for the whole front-end application interface
- SoftKinetic IISU SDK for communication from the Kinect to Flash- Four 46” LCD displays mounted vertically
- Xbox Kinect for motion sensing
- Logitec HD Pro Webcam C910 for taking high definition captures of people
For more info check out: http://visualadvance.com/portfolio/interactive/bally-results-center
Artefact created a radically simple printer concept called SWYP. See What You Print. To learn more: artefactgroup.com/#/content/swyp
Our team design the pattern locking in 2006, way before Android came up with theirs. Any patent lawyer for hire?
Dominic Wilcox has created a series of miniature time-based sculptures using a collection of vintage watches and customised model figures. By attaching tiny figures onto the second and minute hands of each watch, Wilcox has made unique, animated scenes from everyday observations and imagined situations.
The web today is a growing universe of interlinked web pages and web apps, teeming with videos, photos, and interactive content. What the average user doesn’t see is the interplay of web technologies and browsers that makes all this possible.
