Over the summer, Foursquare pivoted from a fun, game based location mobile app to a location based restaurant review app with the aim to compete with Yelp. To throw a bone to loyal users who loved checking in, they created a second location based…
Tag: User Experience
Furled and Unfurled
I have been a proponent on this blog and in person of owning your own stuff on the internet for years, even during the boom years of 2005-2008 when everyone thought that the services and Web 2.0 would take care of everything and your data would persist no matter what.
Off to Visit Ovi in Berlin
This spring has been travel crazy here at Black Phoebe and one of the ways that I have been able to keep within the parameters of my AT&T International data plan is to use Ovi Maps when I was in London and Amsterdam, as…
Mobilism 2011: Scott Jehl, Bryan Rieger, Nicholai Onken, and Jared Spool
Muddling Through the Mobile Web View more presentations from yiibu The Hitchhiker's guide to mobile development View more presentations from Nikolai Onken Dear reader, As a way to both pay attention and have a good record of the proceedings, I like to type out…
Tidbits :: Friday November 19, 2010
I deem today to be UX Friday. For your reading pleasure: Peter Merholz on The Pernicious Effects of Advertising and Marketing Agencies Trying To Deliver User Experience Design with the blockbuster quote being one of the in article headlines, “Ad agencies are the new…
The Great UX Debate of 2010
Recently Ryan Carson lobbed the digital equivalent to a molotov cocktail in to the User Experience bloggers corner and did folks come out swinging! To get a bit of perspective, let’s start with a few salvos from The Great UX Mini-Debate of 2009: Pabini…
Mobilefor.Us: Cell Phones for the Rest of Us
Sun 07.11.10 – Ever since I wrote my master’s thesis on how Creative Professionals used their Mobile Phones, I remain very curious how folks are using their phones. The tech and mobile blogs and blogosphere very much reward bloggers for writing on either the…
Over the Air Updates, Too Much Kit, & Mobile UX
Forgive me for last night’s storytelling rant/praise about Over the Air updating of one’s mobile / smartphone. But one point that I would like to pick out from the story’s threading is that of ease of use for the customer. Many in the mobile…