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Advertising gestural interface

Monday, June 8th, 2009

Birmingham based agency Clusta have coupled together with CBS Outdoor (outdoor billboard advertising company) to produce a truly unique interface. It engages iPhone users with advertising LCD screens, allowing them to control and change the advertisement on screen via gestural interactions through WiFi or 3G connectivity on their phone.

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Tags: CBS Outdoor, Clusta, interface design, iphone
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Prototyping user experience with comics

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

I listened to a podcast on Boxes and Arrows featuring Tom Wailes of Yahoo! describing how he and his team use comics to prototype user experience. This sparked my interest; I have been experimenting with the process and trying to find as many resources of using comics for prototyping as I can get my hands on. What I found appealing about prototyping with comics is that it puts the focus on the experience for the user rather than putting all the emphasis on the design structure of the website or application.

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Tags: comic prototyping, interface design, jared spool, site maps, tom wailes, use cases, User Experience, user flows, wireframes
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What makes a website user friendly?

Monday, April 14th, 2008

Flash movies, subtle gradients, iconography. All just dressing up right? The small things. It is all about the small things that make a website stand out from the rest and usually it is these items that get overlooked by the web visitor, taken for granted even. Without them they would soon leave in a frustrated state never to return again. So what are these small things?

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Tags: Usability, User Experience, Web design
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