March 2011
Hands On With Amazon’s Cloud Drive, Cloud Player →
Super cool. I have to try this out. Music you buy in the cloud! This might get me back to buying music again. Sorry Pandora.
delusions of grandeur: Always a Bridesmaid →
Sad. Briefs looked like an awesome app. The downside of letting Apple play gatekeeper.
delusions:
Last Thursday, after working with Apple’s review team for nearly a year, they rejected Briefs again. I feel like we’ve all been here before. Another App Store rejection and another post on my (barely can be called a) blog. Since this is likely my final tome on the subject, I’m opting for a…
Chartwell →
Super cool font face to help create infographics.
lacrossesticks asked: Go Bruins!!!
Caterina.net» FOMO and Social Media →
Another great post by @caterina
“Similarly social software both creates and cures FOMO (fear of missing out). If you didn’t know that party was going on, you’d be home contentedly reading your latest New Yorker. But since you do, you hungrily watch each new tweet.
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FOMO can be fought. Stay alert! En garde!”
Mobile Form Design Strategies | UX Booth →
Handy guide.
“What we found is that if your friend becomes happy, it increases the probability...”
– Nicholas Christakis in This Emotional Life (via timoni)
“The cost of failure is really high when you’re contributing as yourself”
– Moot has it right
4chan founder: Mark Zuckerberg is “totally wrong” about online identity | VentureBeat (via fred-wilson)
Call to Action Buttons Best Practices Guide - UX... →
“Your buttons may call users to act, but do they compel users to act? Buttons can come in different shapes and forms, but a button isn’t effective if it doesn’t compel users to take action. The more clicks your call to action button gets, the higher chance you have at converting your users into customers. There are a few best practices that can help turn your call to action...
How to Pull off Putting Labels Inside Textboxes -... →
Why Hover Menus Do Users More Harm Than Good - UX... →
“Many designers seem to believe that when their menus open on hover, they’re faster and easier for most users to use. It certainly might seem this way at first, but when you look deeper you’ll notice that the opposite is true. Hover menus are actually slower and harder for most users to use.”
“We’ve all heard the argument that a weekly newsmagazine has no role in today’s...”
– Tina Brown, on the new Newsweek, which officially debuts today. (via newsweek)
“people weren’t used to scrolling in the mid-nineties”
– UX Myths - Myth #3: People don’t scroll (via dromano)
The Apple strategy tax →
marco:
The essence of a “strategy tax” is something that keeps a company from reaching its full potential.
Great article by John Siracusa.