I’ve been a UX practitioner, evangelist and campaigner for over a decade now and it’s often been an up hill struggle to make more traditional management teams accept its critical importance and competitive advantage, however, in the last year or two I’ve watched it’s acceptance accelerate at an amazing pace, propelled by business case after Continue reading
Why user-centric UX is so important
“User-Centric” is not a buzzword. Its really important. It should seem obvious that making your digital experience as empathetic to your user’s needs as possible will result in the greatest business goal conversions, be that sales, signups, awareness or something else…but mostly sales 😉 If you get it right you’ll leave your competitors in the Continue reading
DNA will revolutionise data storage
As a storage medium DNA blows away everything else by miles, literally. Before I share some outrageous examples, I want to put present day hard disk storage capacities into perspective, so you can truly appreciate the comparison. We used to think of MBs, and then GBs as the standard units of data storage. These days Continue reading
The O/N Windows – Will you lead or do you follow?
Truly innovative technologies are held back almost entirely by the fact that they have not yet been successfully prototyped and blogged enough. This is the Opportunity Window and it closes quickly. Once enough technologists have prototyped the capabilities and blogged the possibilities of a good, new technology, it starts to gain traction and everyone else starts to jump on the bandwagon and then we’re into the Necessity Window, but I’ll get to that in a minute.
Technology Trend Consortium Predictions for 2012
Well it’s that time of year again (actually it’s a bit late) where the consortium of geeks convene and put their technology predictions for the next year in the hat. So here they are, in no particular order:
LA Motor Show
The LA Motor Show went very well. We ended up staying out there for 2 weeks getting everything just right. Just a glimps of some of the Ford installations
Kinect – the next step in HCI
With Microsofts launch of the highly anticipated Kinect interface comes much excitement from the development world occupied by us….well let’s be honest, geeks. But hey, Geeks are the new jocks in todays tech driven world. We make shit happen. Don’t believe me? Within 3 hours of the Kinect being sold it had been hacked and Continue reading
Love 3D building projection or just love Vienna?
Personally we love both. On the evening of Monday 8th November the Vienna Tourist Board will be presenting a 3D building projection experience at the Imagination building in Store Street just round the corner from Tottenham Court Road. If you’ve never been to one of these then you will be in for an amazing experience. Continue reading
War. There’s an app for that.
War, urg, what is it good for? iPhone apps apparently.
Adobe sponsored Poker Tournament – PokerCoder 8
PokerCoder 8 is on the 13th July