Test your color matching skills
This color matching game from Method of Action and is crazy making fun. Method of Action looks like it is building out a site to teach programmers about design.
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Social Habits and Time Shifted Viewing
Will we get it right?
Whoops! A new Tivo study shows the user becoming increasingly invested in time shifting for their TV viewing experience. You would never expect this following the news coming from CES in Las Vegas this week where the hot topic for 2012 is Social TV. Is this another example of not considering the consumer who is our end user over the advertiser? Google, Sony, Apple, Comcast, Glue: one after the other the new tricks are tied closely to the social experience of linear television viewing, with everything from new hardware and software as well as second screen apps gaining attention.
The new social model that so many providers and networks seem to feel their success is dependent on is based around the linear viewing model and that is the source of the conflict. Our interactions today increasingly are based on a “shared” experience that is not hinged on having the experience at the same time. Additionally, while we all make space to share with our friends or family we also have actively created comfortable, meaningful, be it less personal, communities in our online exchanges. In this regard the powers that be might pay more attention to the growing success of Google+ hangouts. A lot of people who previously were strangers are creating a new space to have a shared experience. The key is that they are strangers. Assuming we can only have a positive social interaction with people we know rather than people who have a shared interest will create an unnecessary blip for all parties in the growth of this new viewer experience.
I copied this over from an earlier post on my Posterous blog while I was getting this online.
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Letting Go: Designing for a world at the speed of light
I just ran across this slide deck. It is from a presentation given by Bryan & Stephanie Rieger of Yiibu in 2011 at a conference in Berlin. It highlights many of the new complexities being introduced into design as the speed at which information is disseminated explodes.
Letting Go
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Samuel L. Ipsum
If the client has no humor you may want to use your standard placeholder text but this is just too fun to pass up. Thanks to Konigi for the sighting and Paul Maloney for sharing his humorous take on the usually mundane.
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