Google Android Comes To Life: Demo Video From I/O In SF

Friday, May 30th, 2008 by Garrick Schmitt

Google's Android has progressed by leaps and bounds since CES. The demo at Google's I/O developer conference in SF is stunning. Definitely will give Apple and BlackBerry a challenge when it launches later this year. Check it out here (demo starts at 21:07):

Innovation at Your Fingertips: Designing for Multi-Touch

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 by Garrick Schmitt

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 ...

How Digital Can Save Starbucks and Why “My Starbucks Idea” May Not

Thursday, March 27th, 2008 by Garrick Schmitt

Starbucks, more than any other company, has given rise to the “experience economy.” But today the company, with its sagging stock price, is in a deep funk. With shares down around 40%, sales flat to declining and foot traffic falling off, many industry analysts question where Starbucks lost its way: ...

More Than Messaging: Voicemail 2.0?

Monday, March 24th, 2008 by Kyle Outlaw

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 ...

Hitting the Open Road for SXSW

Friday, March 7th, 2008 by Garrick Schmitt

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 ...

What’s the Role of User Interface in Mobile Phones?

Monday, February 18th, 2008 by John-Alistair George

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 ...