I may be late to the party, but I recently saw that Facebook had implemented a feature allowing someone to mark themselves as safe during a disaster or crisis. When disasters happen, people need to know their loved ones are safe. It’s moments like this that being able to connect really matters. Mark Zuckerberg It’s… Continue reading Facebook – mass messaging in a crisis
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Inspiration – Saatchi Art Augmented Reality
The Saatchi Art app lets you browse curated lists of art, but most interestingly, it allows you to position the artwork in your home to see how it would look. Annoyingly though, it doesn’t allow you to save the image to your camera roll so you can share it via other mediums (e.g. WhatsApp or… Continue reading Inspiration – Saatchi Art Augmented Reality
How much information do you need to communicate your ideas?
In workshops, non-designers can be put off by the idea of drawing to communicate, as they believe they aren’t good at it. However, you don’t need to be able to draw well; you need to be able to draw enough that someone else understands. ‘Where am I’ exercise with project managers, developers and sales teams… Continue reading How much information do you need to communicate your ideas?
Remote user testing – task success feedback examples
Getting the right or helpful feedback when you are remote user testing can be difficult. When you sit in the same room as someone, it’s easy to think of ways to rephrase the question or task so that the participant will understand. Still, when you work remotely, you’ll need to be especially careful that your… Continue reading Remote user testing – task success feedback examples
The trouble with most password retrieval security questions
I’ve written a few times about secret questions, and there are a few good examples out there that do it well, but many more do it poorly. The problem with secret questions is that they all generally ask you the same question. Once someone has the answer, they could potentially break into your account on… Continue reading The trouble with most password retrieval security questions
UX in retail – meetup summary
At Mobile UX London‘s meetup, “Mobile UX in Retail”, we heard from Sabrina Duda from ThoughtWorks, Alex Baggallay and Sann Misra from PwC about their experiences and expectations about UX in retail. Insights… Nordstrom Nordstrom will analyse the Pinterest activity in the local area and place those item in the store window. Consequently, sales went… Continue reading UX in retail – meetup summary
We’re not that different
One of my favourite twitter pages is Very British Problems. A few examples are shown below. Very British Problem “Honestly, it’s fine, look… don’t worry about it” – Translation: I will never forget this. Never. — VeryBritishProblems (@SoVeryBritish) June 14, 2015 Procedure for being unthanked for door holding: 1. Keep eyes fixed on culprit 2.… Continue reading We’re not that different
New Adobe DPS (Digital Publishing Solutions)
In the last few weeks I have spent some time getting to grips with the new DPS. I must admit for a not-the-most-technical-type-of-designer type it takes some getting used to especially when DPS work was primarily in inDesign previously. But with some time and a good teacher, it starts to make sense. Once its officially released I’ll share… Continue reading New Adobe DPS (Digital Publishing Solutions)
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How Pinterest prevented me “acting a fool”
As a student, I had a thing about building a library of art books that looked cool (and I would occasionally thumb through them for inspiration). So quite a lot of money went into building up my bookshelf. I would always buy art books, especially if they were discounted. Once, I bought the same book… Continue reading How Pinterest prevented me “acting a fool”