Mobile
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
Adobe, in a bid to increase the proliferation of Flash and Air installations across platforms and devices, launched “The Open Screen Project” and removed all licensing fees for the next release of their players.
The project supporters include “Adobe, ARM, Chunghwa Telecom, Cisco, Intel, LG Electronics Inc., Marvell, Motorola, Nokia, ...
Tags: Adobe, flash, Mobile, set top boxes, wireless
Posted in Media + Entertainment, Mobile, Technology, Web 2.0 | 1 Comment »
Monday, May 5th, 2008
McDonald's is running a trial in 113 store across Nevada, Utah and Wyoming to test mobile coupons using the Cellfire mobile application. Customers can text "mcd" to 22888 to get the mobile Cellfire application. The unique coupon gives you a free iced coffee at any of the participating store during ...
Tags: 2d, barcode, cellfire, citysearch, mcdonalds, sprint
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Sunday, April 13th, 2008
Bank of America, in partnership with MIT Media Lab, has announced it will fund up to $15 million for the creation of the Center for Future Banking. Among the many areas to be researched are social media, virtual worlds and mobile computing and how customer experiences will be transformed by ...
Tags: banking, bankofamerica, financial services medialab, innovation, mit, Mobile, research
Posted in Mobile, Social Media | No Comments »
Friday, April 11th, 2008
Here's the presentation that I'm giving at the IA Summit in Miami on consumer behavior and Web 2.0. It's called Do Real People Really Use Tag Clouds?: Research To Help Separate Web 2.0’s Hits From Hype and is an evolution of the consumer behavior research we did late-last year. From ...
Tags: cbs, cnn, dell, facebook, flows, ia summit, interaction design, netflix, nytimes, page design, red bull, rss feeds, Social Media, starbucks, user experience, Web 2.0, yahoo
Posted in Design Tactics, Digital Consumer Behavior, Mobile, Social Media, Web 2.0 | 9 Comments »
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
How do you design one of the first multi-touch, multi-user interface experiences for a retail environment?
That's what our Avenue A | Razorfish design team solved for Microsoft and AT&T Wireless. Last week, at the CTIA Wireless Conference, the companies announced their initiative to bring Microsoft Surface to life in ...
Tags: apple, at&t wireless, computing, CTIA, design, development, device recognition, environment, iphone, microsoft, Mobile, multi-touch, multi-user, surface
Posted in Advertising, Design Tactics, Mobile, Technology, Web 2.0 | 1 Comment »
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Yesterday at the CTIA Wireless trade show in Las Vegas, Yahoo introduced the new version of their Mobile search. This latest incarnation of mobile search lets Web Publishers integrate search into their mobile sites. In my opinion, Yahoo is the leader in the mobile web application department. At least ...
Tags: CTIA, Mobile, oneSEARCh, search, Voice, wireless, yahoo
Posted in Advertising, Media + Entertainment, Mobile | No Comments »
Sunday, March 30th, 2008
Rolling out one of the biggest -- if not the only -- large scale urban 2D barcode program in the U.S., CitySearch will now be tagging scores of local San Francisco restaurants with the pixelated codes. Partnering with Audio Antenna and ScanBuy, CitySearch announced their plans to put up ...
Tags: 2d, antenna, avenue a | razorfish, barcodes, japan, location, Mobile, scanbuy, SmartPox, sprint, wired, wireless
Posted in Advertising, Mobile, Social Media, Technology, Web 2.0 | No Comments »
Monday, March 24th, 2008
There has been a lot of discussion recently about how web design is influencing mobile. You don't hear as much about how phone interface design, and more specifically the iPhone, is beginning to influence user experience on the web.
Ribbit - "Silicon Valley's first phone company" - is creating some pioneering ...
Tags: amphibian, iphone, microsoft, ribbit, tellme, voicemail
Posted in Mobile, Technology, Web 2.0 | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Continental has started testing electronic passes as an alternative to paper boarding passe. Travelers simply display a 2D barcode on their mobile device as they go through security and board a plane. Essentially the barcode represents the same details printed on a traditional boarding pass, however it is encrypted and ...
Posted in Mobile | 1 Comment »
Sunday, March 9th, 2008
SxSW Interactive is now well and truly underway. The crowds have gathered. This year the Interactive Festival is expecting more than 7500 attendees drawn from all walks of life including designers, developers, usability professionals, start ups, consultants, authors, tech evangelists, cultural theorists, project managers, bloggers and journalists to name ...
Tags: 2008, sxsw, sxswinteractive
Posted in Design Tactics, Digital Consumer Behavior, Media + Entertainment, Mobile, Reviews, Social Media, Technology, Web 2.0 | No Comments »
Friday, March 7th, 2008
Like many of you, we too are packing our bags for this years' SXSW Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas. The schedule, events and party list are truly Texas-sized (i.e. ridiculously big and somewhat overwhelming). Nonetheless, we are prepared to take it all in and perhaps do some light posting.
Avenue A ...
Tags: , agency, event, interactive, iphone, Social Media, sxsw
Posted in Advertising, Digital Consumer Behavior, Media + Entertainment, Mobile, Web 2.0 | No Comments »
Thursday, March 6th, 2008
To coincide with the much anticipated release of the iPhone Software Development Kit, venture capitalist firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers has initiated an "iFund" meant to provide additional motivation to would-be developers. The VC firm is anticipating a new wave of games, applications and widgets, but ...
Posted in Mobile, Web 2.0 | No Comments »
Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Joel Garreau of the Washington Post has written a very interesting piece on the social impact of mobile telephony titled Our Cells, Ourselves. In it he states that the cellphone represents the "fastest global diffusion of any technology in human history", pointing out that there are currently 3.3 billion ...
Tags: Social Media
Posted in Digital Consumer Behavior, Mobile, Social Media | 1 Comment »
Monday, February 25th, 2008
There's an interesting article by Jack Ewing in BusinessWeek that talks about how companies like Nokia, Ericsson and Siemens are embracing renewable energy in Asia and Africa in order to supply rural areas with mobile services. According to Ewing, growth in the mobile industry will be heavily contingent upon the ...
Tags: base, energy, interface, Mobile, renewable, stations
Posted in Mobile, Technology | No Comments »
Monday, February 18th, 2008
On February 12 a panel of human behavior and technology experts gathered at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. One of the sessions was titled "Its the User Experience, Stupid".
David Benjamin, from EE Times, wrote an excellent piece on the conference.
He wrote that Anup Murarka sighted a ChangeWave ...
Tags: apple, Design Tactics, Digital Consumer Behavior, feature, interface, iphone, Mobile, phones, user interface
Posted in Design Tactics, Digital Consumer Behavior, Mobile | 3 Comments »
Thursday, February 14th, 2008
The new Android SDK was released today. Build m5-rc14 brings a host of improvements to SDK. Updates were made to the user interface which received a lot of criticism due to the clunkiness and linear approach to menus and navigation.
They also added the option for developers to create Layout animations ...
Tags: android, anticipated, interface, released, sdk, update
Posted in Mobile, Technology | No Comments »
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
Qualcomm, ARM, NEC, and Texas Instruments are just a few of the companies showcasing prototypes running Google's Android operating system at this year's GSMA World Congress in Barcelona. Despite the fact that these prototypes were implemented on circuit boards rather than actual phones and the Android UI itself is still ...
Tags: action, google, googlephone, interface, Mobile
Posted in Mobile | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
Yahoo launched its oneConnect social mobile application in Barcelona this week. The application is essentially an address book on steroids - it aggregates social networks such as Facebook, Flickr, Twitter and LinkedIn in addition to messaging services including Yahoo Messenger, GoogleTalk, AIM, MSN, and SMS. Yahoo Mail, Gmail, Hotmail, and ...
Tags: enter, interface, Mobile, phonebook, social, Social Media
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Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
We kicked off 2008 with a bit of forecasting and futurism, albeit slowly. Time to take stock and see what resonated with you this month.
Here's a quick run-down of the Top Ten January Digital Design posts:
1. Digital Consumer Behavior Study -- The AARF consumer behavior study in all of its ...
Posted in Analytics, Mobile, Technology | No Comments »
Saturday, February 2nd, 2008
The high bid for the much-coveted nation-wide C-block of 700 megahertz (MHz) band wireless spectrum being auctioned by the FCC stands at $4,713,823,000. Since it has exceeded the $4.6 billion reserve price, whoever wins this auction will be required to provide open access to competitors as well as all devices ...
Tags: access, interface, Mobile, open, spectrum
Posted in Mobile, Technology | No Comments »
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