Interesting post and info graphic: http://www.fastcodesign.com//1664402/infographic-of-the-day-how-twitter-exposes-googles-limits I’ve done this before, just posted a questions to my Twitter/Facebook feed, hoping for a good recommendation on a restaurant or product purchase. As I comented on the post: #lazyweb is part of it, but, as you note, I’d propose it’s something like the #humancuratedweb that’s prompting these requests. [...]

Just read this great post about Apple and Google and their versions/spins on the Cloud. http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/08/apple-icloud-google-cloud/ With iPad/iPhone and now OS X Lion, you don’t save documents anymore. They save automatically — but an easier way to think about it is that they just exist, as is, in realtime on all your devices. … They just [...]

Was pointed towards this recent blog poll on some interface methods and techniques that could be applied to improve the user experience of business applications. Ten Consumer Web UI Themes We’d Like to See in Business Applications – view post The “winners” although there are clearly a diverse set of methods that seem to rise [...]

I’ve been wanting to grab a tablet and stylus and really give digital wireframe and concept sketching a chance. Hearing Jakub’s thoughts on using a tablet and Illustrator push me even further to following through with it. The key values being: Ease of editing Reusable Legibility (my handwritting teeters that line…) But at the same [...]

http://www.uie.com/articles/interview_based_tasks/ Reviewing this article from 2006 from EUI and Jared Spool struck a few key points: “Scavenger-hunt tasks work best when you’ve thoroughly researched the types of things people look for on the site. Our tasks came from extensive interviews and field research. Unfortunately, many times, teams just make up their tasks without doing the [...]