UIE Web App Master's Tour - Seattle, Washington - May 24, 2011 8 in 10 internet users have looked online for health information patientslikeme helps patients track chronic conditions and learn from the experience from other people who are … [Continue reading]
Steve Portigal – Design Fieldwork: Uncovering Innovation From The Outside In
UIE Web App Master's Tour - Seattle, Washington - May 24, 2011 Main Topics How insights from users can impact our designs How to gather those insights Be a methods-polygamist Choose, mash-up or create methodology based on the … [Continue reading]
Bill Scott – Designing for Mice and Men
UIE Web App Master's Tour - Seattle, Washington - May 23, 2011 Bill has been in the industry for a long time, at Sabre, Yahoo! and now Netflix. Challenge is designing across devices: web, mobile, tablets & TV. Iteration changes based on … [Continue reading]
Julie Zhuo – Facebook: Data-Informed vs. Data-Driven Design Decisions
UIE Web App Master's Tour - Seattle, Washington - May 23, 2011 Facebook likes the start-up culture. They believe in small teams: photos, engagement, etc. Each team is treated like a small company with a product designer, researcher, engineers … [Continue reading]
Social Farming?
My Farm is a social networking project in which members (who pay £30) work together (online, not actually working together) to decide how the farm should be managed. Decisions are made about what is planted in what locations, what livestock should be … [Continue reading]
An App That Tracks Your Driving… and Sends the Results to Your Insurance Company
State Farm has created an app that helps track your driving habits. They're not the only insurance company to jump into the driving app space as Progressive has created a monitoring device that bases your insurance cost on your driving habits. While … [Continue reading]
Awesome or Scary?
A lot of really cool things have been coming out of the Google I/O conference this week, one of which is zero-touch near field communication (NFC) in the upcoming version of Android (name Ice Cream Sandwich). Engadget.com has a video of the … [Continue reading]
Flying Trains?
I love robots and all things technology, so this article on how a Ground-Effect Robot Could Be Key To Future High-Speed Trains caught my attention. Growing up in Europe, trains and subways are a way of life and convenient transportation, but not … [Continue reading]