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Contagious is a multi-channel publication that focuses on how technology can revolutionise brands.
Thursday 19 June 2008
Thursday 12 June 2008
does a rose still smell as sweet....
I have to admit it, I have an embarrassing habit of mixing well known phrases and to create a new phrase which still has the original meaning.
Drop us a bell
Odd? I agree.
But somehow my mind makes sense of what I want to say, takes what it can and pastes together a bizarre assortment of words to communicate the message... thought it would be good to keep a record of my strange mental model so here goes:
- its a vicious catch 22
- the moon and her daughters
- raw end of the stick
- brightest tool in the box
- gidits and gazmos
Drop us a bell
Similarly, our clever brains are able to unscramble words without really trying. Apparently when we read we take the first and last letter of each word and make sense of what's in between. Visit the scrambler to try it our for your self.
is it really that easy?
I've always wanted to have the time to play around with the tools that sites say are 'easy to embed' or 'share with your friends'. The only site that I feel get this right is Facebook, but then they can control the angles.
So here goes, can i embed this video from DailyMotion... will it be HTML death or surprising success?
So here goes, can i embed this video from DailyMotion... will it be HTML death or surprising success?
Tuesday 3 June 2008
Is bigger better?
This giant size suite of living room furniture is a big hit on London's South Bank.
Passers by stopping to clamber and explore, while others watch from the side lines.
Perhaps sometimes bigger is better... if not more fun.
Monday 2 June 2008
I don't care how it works!!
Ok, so not a title that reflects my passion for interaction design but I thought I'd open up with a thought that I have been harbouring for a while now.
Have you ever seen the early Mercedes Gullwing? The entire car is gorgeous and the dashboard is so beautifully crafted that it's no wonder that you just want to touch it. I have a sneaking suspicion, that if you're ever lucky enough to get to sit in one of these cars that the first thing you will do is drool and the second is reach out and touch one of the many tempting dials, switches or buttons!
Why? Well I can't scientifically explain it but there is definitley a correlation between stuff that looks beautiful and tactile and stuff that you just want to touch...
So how does this relate to online? I believe that websites can be analysed to the n'th degree to optimise traffic and user journeys but there will always be a degree of animal attraction. Perhaps if the site is beautifully crafted users may enjoy discovering the functionality over having an interface with everything explained.
Photo from sherlock77 on Flickr
Have you ever seen the early Mercedes Gullwing? The entire car is gorgeous and the dashboard is so beautifully crafted that it's no wonder that you just want to touch it. I have a sneaking suspicion, that if you're ever lucky enough to get to sit in one of these cars that the first thing you will do is drool and the second is reach out and touch one of the many tempting dials, switches or buttons!
Why? Well I can't scientifically explain it but there is definitley a correlation between stuff that looks beautiful and tactile and stuff that you just want to touch...
So how does this relate to online? I believe that websites can be analysed to the n'th degree to optimise traffic and user journeys but there will always be a degree of animal attraction. Perhaps if the site is beautifully crafted users may enjoy discovering the functionality over having an interface with everything explained.
Photo from sherlock77 on Flickr
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