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Experience Is The Product

Peter Merholz (Adaptive Path) posted on his blog this week that his slidecast “Experience Is The Product” hit 400,000 views. Peter gave the talk at dConstruct 2007 in Brighton, UK. The presentation argues for focusing on the experience rather than technology and features. It’s a great talk that uses examples of good user experience design [...]


Making Recycling Fun

World Usability Day is this week and the theme is “Designing for a Sustainable World”. In North Carolina, I’ll be attending an evening event hosted by Tri-UPA and Carolina HFES. My company has been hard at work redesigning recycle bins for the annual design challenge. Last year, we took a stab at redesigning bus stops.
Technology [...]


Products with multiple uses–selling them in stores is a challenge.

Designing a product with multiple uses is always a delicate balance between overwhelming the customer and providing bang for their buck. As one of my colleagues noted on our blog at HumanCentric, you need to make sure the feature fits the product, take time to design, and don’t forget about the main use cases.
But what [...]


Bonobos CEO: Don’t use Twitter for marketing

Bonobos CEO Andy Dunn is someone who gets it. He understands that the value of Twitter for businesses is not to reach out to new customers, but it’s more about listening to your current customers. As Dunn says, the signal-to-noise ratio on Twitter is very low, and Twitter is more of a tool to open [...]


Dos and Don’ts in Europe

The Fasten Seatbelts to the World project is aimed at identifying cultural differences in Europe to prevent barriers in communication and cooperation. They made this fun video detailing some of the dos and don’ts. Many of them surprised me!
The action starts at 1:00 and continues till about 4:00.
One thing that surprised me about this project [...]


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