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The Chase. Fantastic intel ad. (~2min)
Mobi Cart
A free and simple way for you to build and manage your own m-commerce store. MobiCart works on its own, or link it up to your existing website.
Nice bikes from puma
UX: Recommended Reading
A few people who attended the SuperUX talk at Supermondays asked if I could recommend any books. Joanne listed some great resources, some of which I repeat. Here are mine:
Books
Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction
Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
Elements of User Experience: User-centered Design for the Web
Thoughts on Interaction Design
Blogs/URLs
http://www.uxmag.com/
http://www.boxesandarrows.com/
http://uitrends.com/
http://www.uxbooth.com/
http://www.interaction-design.org/
http://37signals.com/svn
Well Placed Pixels
A collection of beautiful interfaces on desktop and mobile. Some good stuff in there.
PUMA to release solar powered phone, with pretty UI!
Google Slopeview
Streetview comes to the slopes in Whistler courtesy of Google Snowmobiles
Lovely concept bike from Peugeot. Via Bikerumor
Going to see Etienne de Crecy on Thursday night, looks like an amazing show.
Lovely visual treatment and soundtrack from Form+Format
Really liking this tune from Warpaint - “Elephants”
Design by Community
It’s important to engage with your users as soon as possible. Complex sign up forms, account activation and verification, captcha are are useful tools, but also obstacles to a user achieving site goals.
A lot has to be said for gradual engagement as a way to overcome that. The idea is simple – get your users using your product as soon as possible, and if they love it, they’ll sign up
At Graphic.ly we took that process little further. We didn’t just get the users using our social app before signup. We got them involved before we’d released anything. This is by no means the first time this process has been attempted. I followed closely as Mark Boulton and his team worked on the community-lead redesign of drupal.
But this isn’t a redesign. We are engaging with users to craft something they will love. And its going to be an exciting journey along the way. Some of the feedback we’ve had at this early stage has been overwhelming – this is a community with a lot of passion.
You can follow the progress we make by:
Signing up as a beta tester
Reading our company blog
Following us on Twitter
