October, 2007 Archive
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
The Institute of Contemporary Art Boston is showcasing the exhibition Design Life Now, a Cooper-Hewitt original, which focuses on design highlights of the last three years across architecture, new technologies, furniture, product, animation, graphics and more.
Wandering the galleries I was waiting to come across at least one contribution from the ...
Tags: Media + Entertainment, Reviews, Web 2.0
Posted in Uncategorized | 4 Comments »
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
I'm not one for simplistic maxims. Early in my career, however, I became convinced of this one: "Test early and test often"
I don't think I need to convince anyone of the value of user feedback. However, as I'm exposed to various projects, there seems to be a few myths about ...
Tags: Design Tactics, Digital Consumer Behavior
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Monday, October 29th, 2007
You may not have been able to attend Nokia's "The Way We Live Next" media event in Oula, Finland last week, but that shouldn't stop you from checking out the many presentations and podcasts from the event now posted on Nokia's web site.
Richard Humbach from Nokia's Emerging Business Unit talks ...
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Monday, October 29th, 2007
Tellme Networks, recently aquired by Microsoft, is doing some interesting work in the mobile space right now. Tellme beta is a java application (and a free alternative to 411) that lets customers search business directories using voice. Results are displayed in text with links to maps, directions, and related searches.
From ...
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Friday, October 26th, 2007
This blog post comes live from the Avenue A | Razorfish Enterprise Solutions summit in Boston. (26 October 2007) I just listened to Enterprise 2.0 authorities like Dion Hinchcliffe and Andrew McAfee address the challenges of adopting web 2.0 design practices in the workplace.
In an afternoon presentation, Hinchcliffe first ...
Tags: Social Media, Web 2.0
Posted in Technology | 3 Comments »
Friday, October 26th, 2007
This blog post comes live from the Avenue A | Razorfish Enterprise Solutions summit in Boston (26 October 2007). We're holding the event to examine how companies are adopting web 2.0 design practices inside the workplace.
A team from Ford Motor Company just discussed how it worked with Avenue ...
Tags: Design Tactics, Social Media, Web 2.0
Posted in Technology | 3 Comments »
Friday, October 26th, 2007
This blog post comes live from the Avenue A | Razorfish Enterprise Solutions summit in Boston (26 October 2007). We're holding the event to examine how companies are adopting web 2.0 design practices inside the workplace. Speakers include Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia and Wikia, Andrew McAfee of ...
Tags: Design Tactics, Social Media, Web 2.0
Posted in Technology | 2 Comments »
Thursday, October 25th, 2007
Due to an outpouring of interest, we've resurrected the Digiboard IdeaLab project:
We launched this project last year at the Avenue A | Razorfish Client Summit in Las Vegas. Digiboard (short for "digital billboard") was our attempt to create a community-based display mechanism for mobile digital pictures. Cleverly dubbed as ...
Tags: Web 2.0
Posted in Mobile | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
Avenue A | Razorfish is hosting its first-ever Enterprise Solution Summit in Boston tomorrow. Amy Vickers, who leads the ES practice for our firm and is also a UXer, has assembled a great roster: Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia fame gives the keynote with appearances by Dion Hinchcliffe of ...
Tags: Design Tactics, Web 2.0
Posted in Technology | 4 Comments »
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
Why an innovation lab at an interactive agency?
I've gotten several questions like that over the last few days. So, I'm going to provide some context around the Avenue A | Razorfish IdeaLab. Namely, what it is and why do we do it. And, perhaps, tease out a few reasons that ...
Tags: Media + Entertainment, Social Media, Web 2.0
Posted in Mobile | 6 Comments »
Friday, October 19th, 2007
BuzzMap.net is the latest release from the Avenue A | Razorfish IdeaLab, our in-house idea incubator that allows our design teams to prototype next-gen concepts and release them to the world (most of the time).
BuzzMap.net is a subscription-based service that allows consumers to follow trends and information by linking to ...
Tags: Advertising, Social Media, Web 2.0
Posted in Mobile | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
"Bubble" is definitely the theme du jour -- at least from the major media outlets -- in regard to The Web 2.0 Summit that is kicking off this afternoon in San Francisco.
Facebook's reported $15 billion dollar valuation has everyone a twitter (pun, fully intended). But this doesn't feel like a ...
Tags: Advertising, Media + Entertainment, Web 2.0
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
Shot #1: Amazon.com Redesign
One of the biggest surprises this past week was the redesign of Amazon.com -- a pretty bold leap forward for the online retailer even though the graphic language has a bit too much 2.0-ness for my taste.
While I haven't had time to fully digest it all, ...
Tags: Digital Consumer Behavior, Reviews
Posted in eCommerce | 1 Comment »
Monday, October 15th, 2007
The line between phone and PC continues to get hazier with the recent release of Apple's web application directory for use with the iPhone and iPod Touch. Included on the site is a substantial index of mobile web applications submitted by third-party developers, in addition to sample code and information ...
Tags: Web 2.0
Posted in Mobile | 1 Comment »
Friday, October 12th, 2007
Check out the 2007 Forrester Research Consumer Forum if you need any convincing that digital brands must behave differently than offline brands.
This year's forum takes a thorough look at the firestorm that consumers have ignited through their use of social media technologies to become brand advocates and critics. ...
Tags: Digital Branding, Social Media
Posted in Digital Branding | 4 Comments »
Thursday, October 11th, 2007
Radiohead is releasing their latest record, "In Rainbows", direct to consumers as a digital download this week with a curious price tag: pay whatever you like or nothing at all.
And the early results -- if they are to be believed -- are pretty astounding: 1.2 million downloads in 2 days!
While ...
Tags: Design Tactics, Media + Entertainment, Web 2.0
Posted in Analytics | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
For those who have decided to ignore the iPhone hype or are still trying to figure out how to ditch their existing carrier contracts there is some good news: according to Mike Schroepfer of Mozilla, Firefox will soon be releasing a mobile version of their web browser.
Mobile Firefox is already ...
Posted in Mobile | 2 Comments »
Monday, October 8th, 2007
I recently sat in on a talk given by our very own Kevin Kearney on how we as designers can introduce playfulness into the user interface. Kevin gave some examples from brands such as Flickr, Digg and Apple who were incorporating playful elements into their interfaces and doing it well.
Did ...
Tags: Design Tactics, Digital Branding, Web 2.0
Posted in Digital Branding | 9 Comments »
Friday, October 5th, 2007
One of the key implications of the Digital Consumer Behavior Study is that marketers should design experiences for consumers wherever they live in the digital world, well beyond the website (an idea that Shar VanBoskirk has explored also in the Forrester Marketing Blog).
So ...
Tags: Digital Branding, Social Media, Web 2.0
Posted in Digital Branding | 4 Comments »
Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Well, not yet. But the relevance of website homepages are on the wane. Search, RSS and widgets are driving more and more users deep into today's web properties.
In fact, many top sites see 50% or more of their traffic originate beyond the homepage. And that's on the conservative side. What's ...
Tags: Advertising, Digital Consumer Behavior, Media + Entertainment
Posted in Analytics | 1 Comment »
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