OpenID has been the topic of the week in the Kwiqq offices. OpenID for people who are less aware of it is a shared identity service, which allows Internet users to log on to many different web sites using a single digital identity, single sign-on, eliminating the need for a different user name and password [...]
If you are following the news the words ‘credit crunch’, ‘market down’, ‘record levels’, ‘recession’.. would be very familiar, almost annoying. During these times the advice is to keep a close eye on your cash !
So here is a social tool to manage your money, Kublax. Another way of describing is: Mint.com for the UK. [...]
Also posted in Business 2.0, Europe 2.0, Social Networks, Techy Stuff, Web World | Tagged American Express, Bank, Barclays, Credit card, kublax, Lloyds TSB, UK |
By dan | September 17, 2008
All this talk of ubiquity reminded me of a book I read recently called Digital Korea, in this book the author described how technologically advanced South Korea was with super fast broadband, online gaming, mobile payments etc. Also mentioned was the ubiquitous dream hall (sounds odder than it really is) which is Korea’s example of [...]
Also posted in Techy Stuff | Tagged Design, Korea, Ubiquity |
I know there are enough people out there who feel tag clouds do not work. Rob Cottingham has an excellent cartoon to represent this.
Got to love Rob’s cartoons, we first showcased two of his cartoon in July.
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Tags: TagCloud, grave, social netwrok, Rob Cottingham
Earlier Dan described Ubiquity in words now check out the coolest tool in Firefox in Action:
By dan | September 5, 2008
I have been playing around with the new Ubiquity plugin for Firefox for a few hours and can already see the massive potential of this project.
I discovered this project after reading Jono DiCarlo’s blog post about linguistic UIs, in it he was discussing the difference between using a noun as a connection for a user [...]
Also posted in Techy Stuff | Tagged Growl, Mozilla, Ubiquity |
As a designer you have to be careful what language you use to communicate information to users. This could mean naming conventions in navigational elements or using easier to understand language to name links (based on my previous posts this may be naming at the genus level). Beyond this are the new interfaces beginning to [...]
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For the second installment on the psychology of design, I would like to write more about the research behind my theory before concluding the series next week with how these principles can be directly applied to web design.
It begins with Eleanor Rosch, a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. From field experiments [...]
Recently I have had to put some serious thinking behind how large numbers of users can most successfully be encouraged to progress through an interface. Using some research I have carried out I am going to write a series of blog posts on the psychology of design.
One of the major influences on the way we [...]