Standing Out From The Crowd

Everything changes all the time; it’s just the nature of our modern world.  The real problem is not how fast things change but how out-of-control we usually feel for not knowing where all these changes will eventually lead. We are all afraid of missing the boat for the next big thing. Social Media, Netbooks, multi-touch [...]

  I am now totally addicted and dependent on my iPhone.  The thought of being without it gives me shivers, so you probably can relate when, on a Saturday morning, all my songs went mute and I realized the problem was with the phone itself instead of the earbuds. Long story short: I called Apple’s [...]

It’s official!  The new generation’s brains REALLY ARE wired to better handle the speed of the digital life (Read the Research). Problems generated by this change aside (and despite how amazed we can be sometimes with these kids’ feats - see video below), the fact is that people’s way of thinking have adapted to instantly process [...]

Today, Google is launching a new way of doing searches, using the iPhone as a market test. If it works half as good as it looks like it does in the video above, then a future where we interface computers just by talking is nearby. A shift like this does not only change how people [...]

Just one day after the election, in a discussion group for UX practitioners and Information architects, I saw a post asking people’s take on the U.S. election with respect to UX & Usability.  Specifically, it was asking if either McCain or Obama would provide a better environment for UX to thrive… Well, my first reaction was to [...]