January 2011
“…but the participants showed significantly greater brain activation in the...”
– Robotic thoughts « Mind Hacks
“A short thought experiment: a kettle product that doesn’t boil properly...”
– furby and the fourth kingdom (28 Jan., 2011, at Interconnected)
“Polite robots would be the best! But I don’t think we get to choose. Polite...”
– furby and the fourth kingdom (28 Jan., 2011, at Interconnected)
“…both animals and humans have a built-in automatic response to stimuli...”
– Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
“There’s an implied divisiveness here: the idea that designing games for...”
– Gamasutra - Features - Resetting Accessibility in Games
“He reminds himself it’s better to be in the arena, getting stomped by the bull,...”
– Say Yeah! - The War of Art: Winning the Inner Creative Battle by Steven Pressfield
“He had been trained, as a guy, to be self-contained and smart and rational, and...”
– What the science of human nature can teach us : The New Yorker
“I’ve come to think that flourishing consists of putting yourself in situations...”
– What the science of human nature can teach us : The New Yorker
“A core finding of this work is that we are not primarily the products of our...”
– What the science of human nature can teach us : The New Yorker
“Human beings are overconfidence machines. Paul J. H. Schoemaker and J. Edward...”
– What the science of human nature can teach us : The New Yorker
“In this study, the average time spent on organic results was much longer on...”
– Eye Tracking Bing vs. Google: A Second Look - User Centric, Inc.
“…when people are induced to act in new ways, even if those new behaviors...”
– Stop Blaming Your Culture - Farnam Street
“If I suddenly decide I want to dial you up, I have no way of knowing whether...”
– Clive Thompson on the Death of the Phone Call | Magazine
“The report opines that sending email in the very early morning, as many...”
– MediaPost Publications Early Morning Email Readers Use Mobile 01/25/2011
“Yet newsrooms all over the world—even the ones run and staffed by people who are...”
– “Satire was mostly dead in 2008 and its corpse is still cold today. What do people want in the future? I guess they want tweets.”
“As part of my research, I asked people how they felt when they first knew they...”
– Pleasant Things Work Better | UX Magazine
“Predicting people’s behavior is becoming big business—and increasingly feasible...”
– How Visa Predicts Divorce - The Daily Beast
“The company still gets eighty percent of its profits from subscribers, many of...”
– AOL’s “Dirty Little Secret”: 60% of AOL’s Profits Come From Misinformed Customers
Friends in My Pocket : James Shelley →
minimalmac:
As a lover in a time of war might cherish the wrinkled, worn letter from their beloved, the small apparatuses in our pockets can too be cherished for what they represent and how they connect us to others.
“90% of iOS users are on the latest release (iOS 4). 0.4% of Android users are on...”
– LukeW | Data Monday: iOS & Android Differences
“It’s a lot easier for an organization to adopt new words than it is to...”
– Seth’s Blog: The pleasant reassurance of new words
instantwatcher.com - Movies and TV to watch... →
Instantwatcher helps you find good streaming titles from Netflix
“Simple trumps complete” – a 5% feature (used by less than 5% of all users) is a...”
– A Netflix Design Principle: Simple Trumps Complete » UIE Brain Sparks
“Freedom of choice
Is what you got
Freedom from choice
Is what you want
–...”
– Minimal Mac | Freedom From Choice
Why did you have to blow into an NES cartridge to... →
“User experience work done seriously deals with big, fat, hairy challenges....”
– The Fall Will Kill You « UX Crank
“Then there is this: Apple reaches for greatness without apology. Market share...”
– Daring Fireball Linked List: ‘Apple Reaches for Greatness Without Apology’
“This year, on fourth down and three or fewer yards in the opponent’s territory,...”
– Are NFL Coaches Starting to Listen to Economists? - NYTimes.com
“On the other hand, a woman with a preponderance of ‘4’ votes, someone...”
– Confirmed: Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder - NYTimes.com
“And so we wait, expectantly, for the resolution of E major, for Beethoven’s...”
– The Neuroscience Of Music | Wired Science | Wired.com
“Participate in the culture you are designing for.”
– LukeW | Mobile UX Essentials
“This study demonstrated that student retention of material across a wide range...”
– The Educational Benefit of Ugly Fonts | Wired Science | Wired.com
“It’s safe to say that once computers made a variety of fonts available to...”
– Hideous fonts may boost reading comprehension - Laura Miller - Salon.com
“A pidgin language is a simplified language that develops as a means of...”
– Pidgin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“MySpace also upended the structure of the conventional music industry by...”
– Online Fandom » Where MySpace Went Wrong And What It Can Still Do Right
“Engineers handle entire feature themselves — front end javascript, backend...”
– How Facebook Ships Code « FrameThink – Frameworks for Thinking People
i won’t comment on the validity of this practice or even if it can be judged purely on its validity alone, but i will say this… i can smell this as a user. from facebook to gmail, products and feature sets driven by...
“We look for evidence that confirms our beliefs and discount evidence that...”
– Why Smart People Do Stupid Things | By Kurt Kleiner | Dysrationalia, Why People are Irrational | University of Toronto Magazine
“People instinctively want consistency. They want to know that they’re reading...”
– Stop Writing for People, Start Writing for Search Engines | Blind Five Year Old
“These types of system-redefining events force your nerd to recognize that the...”
– Rands In Repose: The Nerd Handbook
“Every single second you allow a nerd to remain in the Zone is a second where...”
– Rands In Repose: Managing Nerds
“There have already been stories of children trying to use the familiar...”
– Mobile User Experience Trends on the Horizon | UX Magazine
“Unlike the output from qualitative research studies, usually called insights,...”
– Proofiness and User Research, A Book Review « Solid State UX
“If Mujicomp is all about devices we’re comfortable inviting into our homes,...”
– Dan W, Web App + Mobile Developer in London: Asleep and Awake – Blog – BERG
