Inspiring way to tell the story of a team and work they do beyond tags, keywords, phrases. Building a relationship with their audience in the narrative.
http://www.itvt.com/story/5271/advertising-agency-booneoakley-creates-interactive-youtube-video-its-main-web-site
This also uses youtube’s annotation, which would work well if it didn’t resize your video each time you clicked on a link. Then again, could use flash.
Great content and one of the best presentations I’ve seen.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8091398.stm
The answer surely is that users shouldn’t even perceive that they’re going on to the web.
Another article from Wired.
From the first paragraph: “At last count, we estimated at least 12 different e-book readers on the market or close to release.”
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/05/buying-guide-e-book-reader/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7954941.stm
Some more background and leads
Well. Just heard this campaign on the local radio for the first time. At first I thought it was some sort of sick joke, but sadly it is not April 1st. It was like listening to someone reading from Orwell. Felt like we were on the other side of the Iron Curtain in the Cold War. What a wonderful way of dealing with someone you don’t like, just report them for something random and their name will be on god knows what list in perpetuity. It would seem that we are doing a wonderful job of destroying our freedoms all by ourselves.
Could these be the audience for MFT
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7942017.stm
…there again, not too much use in a tunnel.
This looks like fun - surfing over the Alps and also using the board to control a Second Life character:
Use this post for interesting news from MWC:
Monday 16th opening
- MiFi hotspot from Novatel
BBC’s Rory Cellan-Jones - Tuesday 17th
- a good demo of the projector phone, interview with Nokia, demo of new N97
On friday 13th feb Arun and myself went to the RNIB office in London for a workshop on ‘Tools for Inclusive Design’.
John Clarkson from the University of Cambridge Engineering Design Centre did an excellent presentation on Designing a more inclusive world - hopefully the slides should be made available soon so we can share them, it would also make a great Wednesday lunchtime talk!
We also did some practical exercises in groups, using Personas to evaluate the design of some cameras - 2 digital cameras and a disposable camera. The exercises assessed the cameras from a usability point of view (for example one of the personas currently had a broken arm) and according to demands made on vision, thinking and dexterity abilities.
The fundamental message from the day was:
There were some interesting practical examples given, such as: lever taps are much easier to use for people with dexterity issues such as arthritis, but work for the rest of us when our hands are slippery with soap; the same goes for cordless kettles which were actually designed for arthritis sufferers but became the standard for the rest of us.
The engineering design centre have created a number of tools to aid us in thinking about models of interaction from a functional ability point of view (such as vision, hearing, thinking, communication, locomotion, dexterity).
You can find their software impairment simulators in the links and resources section of their website: