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The only limit to what can be done with these connected computing devices will be what entrepreneurs and engineers can dream up. From the Tech Crunch article The Cambrian Explosion in Start-Ups, an interesting read on the increase in number of start-ups and how ‘connected’ will play a crucial role.
Looking at the stats of our own site show that 14% of all users on desktops accessed the site directly. All of the rest found us via search engines or referrals. Compare this to our mobile users and 47% of them found us directly. – Rob Borely from In-traction in an
Pretending that you can’t is sort of like pretending that a retailer that once sold primarily via catalogue can’t and shouldn’t sell via the internet too. From the Ecounsultancy article Native apps versus mobile website: three simple rules A great read on why this isn’t an ‘Either-or’ matter, what you
These things can profoundly influence life. I’m not downplaying that. But it’s a disservice to constantly put things in this radical new light – that it’s going to change everything. Things don’t have to change the world to be important. – Steve Jobs in an interview with Wired, 2006 on
Each step by any (and every) one who ships moves us. It might show us what won’t work, it might advance the state of the art or it might merely encourage others to give it a try as well. To those who feel that they have no choice but to
When our mistakes stare us in the face, we often find it so upsetting that we miss out on the primary benefit of failing (yes, benefit): the chance to get over our egos and come back with a stronger, smarter approach. From The 99 percent article Why success always starts
Ever since I was a little girl I’ve collected quotes and sayings. I had a special book for them and as I had my first crush that book saw more and more of the “Roses are red, violets are blue…” kinds.
Ideas and inspiration come from conflict. It is in clashing ideas that new ideas are born – when our brains drop all of the boxes of categories on the floor of our mind, we finally see something new. That’s why the best ideas that we have are out of context
The major takeaway for app developers is that they must provide an experience that goes above and beyond the Web in order to give users an incentive to use an app over the web equivalent. From the UX Magazine article Five lessons from a year of tablet research on how
…in a world of social media, a whisper can acquire a damaging momentum regardless of its relationship to the truth From BBC News article England riots: Dangers behind false rumours Image source: www.flickr.com/photos/aftab/3397842830/in/photostream
No. You failed. Own up to it. Own it. This is a beginning, not the end. From the Fastcompany article Celebrate Failure on why more people should acknowledge and learn from failure and not see it as the end. Image source: www.flickr.com/photos/aftab/3475219722/in/photostream
…the truly fascinating aspect is how the Twitter conversation runs parallel to the TV proceedings and yet, quite often, it divagates, it stalls behind, it runs ahead—in a truly human fashion that no vox pop can ever capture From the Meta Broadcast blog post Where we capture the twitter conversation
…is a sign that people are not becoming less able to remember things, but simply organising vast amounts of available information in a more accessible way. From the BBC article Internet’s memory effects quantified in computer study on how computers and internet are changing the nature of our memory. Image
Some people think the cloud is just a big disk in the sky. We think it’s way more than that. Said by Jobs during WWDC 2011 in San Fransisco . Referenced by the Guardian in Apple pins its hopes on the iCloud as users drift away from computers Image source:
Great products and services depend on their users having great experiences. From the UX Magazine article Social design strategy Image source: www.flickr.com/photos/piper/175096029
…serving up the same stale content to everyone is, without question, no longer enough. From the Smashing Mag article Real time data and a more personalised web Image source: www.flickr.com/photos/aftab/3364835006/in/photostream
Every time you redesign… God kills a kitten. Tweeted by @louisrosenfeld. See his UX London presentation on Slideshare Image source: www.flickr.com/photos/matterphotography/2739799786
When developing apps across mobile platforms, there should be no devices left with a poorer user experience. From the UX Magazine post App Equality: The same experience who ever you are Image source: www.flickr.com/photos/giovanni_novara1/5817898537
The truth is, most entrepreneurs launch their companies without an brilliant idea and proceed to discover one, or if they do start with what they think is a superb idea, they quickly discover that it’s flawed and then rapidly adapt. From TechCrunch guest post ‘Don’t bet big. Little bets are
An iPhone app is not a mobile strategy, it’s an iPhone app. Said by Google’s Ian Carrington, tweeted by @chrisjvernon Image source: www.flickr.com/photos/aftab/3602645078/in/photostream