December 2010
“His attention to cultural details wins him trust more quickly in communities. He...”
– Tech’s roving R&D man - Fortune Tech
WatchLinked memories sounds far-fetched and futuristic, but the concept isn’t beyond the realm of possibility, if you equate memories with user-generated content such as images and videos captured with a mobile phone. XtremeSignPost calls this the “Internet of Experiences.” Take the example of a video recorded during a fishing trip in Fiji: By associating the visual “memory” with an RFID-tagged fishing...
November 2010
“It turns out that there is something that can compete with free: easy.”
– The Men Who Stole the World - TimeFrames - TIME
“When exposed to the anxious sweat, the participants took longer to decide over,...”
– BPS Research Digest: The ‘smell’ of other people’s anxiety makes us take more risks
“Tell me about how things changed. Don’t tell me I was an idiot.”
– Seth’s Blog: When you criticize my choices…
“One of my favorite sayings is: your system is perfectly designed to yield the...”
– The Seduction of Primary Care | We Get What We Pay For
“We’ve been trained to optimize. That’s typically our job as designers, but...”
– Frank Chimero
“30-50% of mobile search queries are local.
10-20% of desktop (PC) queries on...”
– LukeW | Data Monday: Mobile Search
“For instance, what if the phone — using a location beacon — could sense if we...”
– Can Mobile Phones Think?: Tech News «
“41% of [US] babies were born to unmarried moms in 2008. … More than half of the...”
– Overcoming Bias : Mom Delusions Re Dad
“Everything happens together and exists together and does not divide because of a...”
– Donald Judd (via caseyagollan)
“I’ve been amazed so often now that I’m in a permanent state of maze”
– The Minecraft Experiment, day 1: Chasing Waterfalls | PC Gamer
“The future of marketing is to decentralize and be part of platforms and...”
– Are We Making Our Fans Work Too Hard | Social Media Marketing | Social Media Consulting - Convince & Convert
“Until your idea interacts with the market, you’re suffocating it.”
– Seth’s Blog: Oxygen for ideas
“The report by The International Council on Security and Development (ICOS)...”
– Study: Few Afghans know of 9/11, reason for war - World news - South and Central Asia - Afghanistan - msnbc.com (via iamdanw)
“Hard is not about sweat or time, hard is about finishing the rare, valuable,...”
– Seth’s Blog: Sure, but what’s the hard part?
“Dweck had suspected that praise could backfire, but even she was surprised by...”
– Praise Junkie: How do you talk to your kids? - Farnam Street
“Comparing oxytocin to narcotics, Vedantam writes: “The unexpected, kind, and...”
– The Parent Trap: Addiction - NYTimes.com
“The appropriate response is not to try harder, to bear down and grind it out....”
– Seth’s Blog: Embracing the upcycle instead of the downcycle
“It doesn’t really matter if we like you. It matters if we like your work.”
– Seth’s Blog: The Sally Field problem
“In theory there’s nothing to stop me proposing a discussion or a debate or...”
– Thoughts on Conferences (via iamdanw)
“I still remember the amazement of seeing a crudely designed button graphic I’d...”
– A List Apart: Articles: Understanding CSS3 Transitions
“Designing for the web is like building sand sculptures.”
– Dan Rubin (via simplebits)
“The scientists were interested in the activation of the striatum, an area rich...”
– Why Making Dinner Is a Good Idea | Wired Science | Wired.com
“if you’re not embarrassed when you ship your first version you waited too long.”
– 1.0 Is the Loneliest Number — Matt Mullenweg
“Almost everybody surveyed, a full 95%, said after a bad customer experience they...”
– Study: 82% Of U.S. Consumers Bail On Brands After Bad Customer Service
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“The more tightly you try to control something the more you ultimately begin to...”
– LukeW | An Event Apart: A Dao of Flexibility
“It’s easy to assume that vivid emotions spring from the truth. I’m...”
– Seth’s Blog: Just because he’s angry
“Profit is not the explanation, cause, or rationale of business behavior and...”
– Peter Drucker (via Babak Nivi)
Writing for the web →
jimburgess:
Web usability expert Jakob Nielsen has done a lot of research on how people read on the web.
If you (like most of your customers) are lazy and only scan stuff, here are the highlights:
79%…
“Across the studies, participants inaccurately predicted their feelings and...”
– After Good or Bad Events, People Forget How They Thought They’d Feel - Farnam Street
“By the end of the study, Mr. Tetlock had quantified 82,361 predictions.
How...”
– Jonah Lehrer’s Head Case Column on Punditry - WSJ.com
Lunch Line Redesign - Interactive Feature -... →
Experiments that we and other researchers have done in cafeterias at high schools, middle schools and summer camp programs, as well as in laboratories, have revealed many ways to use behavioral psychology to coax children to eat better. Here are a dozen such strategies that work without requiring drastic or expensive changes in school menus.
“Then the moment of truth. In passing the participant was asked for a favour:...”
– The Influence of Fleeting Attraction — PsyBlog
Kicker Studio: Everything I’ve Ever Learned About... →
“The future is all about designing for multiple use cases, not saying ‘your...”
– Is “Undesigned” the Next Great Web Trend? Fat Chance | Co.Design
“No is easier to do. Yes is easier to say.”
– Jason Fried (via jonathanmoore)
Emotional Interface Design: The Gateway to... →
“The default reaction of most print publishers since the advent of the Internet...”
– Subtraction.com: More on iPad Magazines 