Part of the MoMA's Talk To Me exhibit, British artist David McCandless' The Hierarchy of Digital Distractions shows the order in which we'll let technology bother us. Very accurate stuff.
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Part of the MoMA's Talk To Me exhibit, British artist David McCandless' The Hierarchy of Digital Distractions shows the order in which we'll let technology bother us. Very accurate stuff.
Securing buy-in from influential franchisees was just one of the benefits that Midas researcher Garry Rosenfeldt reaped when he turned to qualitative research to develop a new service model.It's a great tale of how using video ethnography can avoid some of the issues with running traditional qualitative research activities such as focus groups. Unfortunately, you need to register (for free) on Quirks to read the article. It is worth it, but just in case you want more of an incentive...
For many Americans, a kitchen is no longer just a place for making meals. The author’s ongoing study has seen it morph into a HIVE, a highly interactive virtual environment that incorporates food preparation along with checking e-mail, surfing the Web and a host of other tech-related activities.I can't imagine anything better than jumping in an RV and hitting the road to do research with real people!
Last week we launched a new version of the BBC homepage at http://beta.bbc.co.uk. At first you might think the beta homepage seems pretty familiar, with its modular customisable layout. But take a closer look and you'll notice we've made a number of significant improvements.The main changes are:
And he goes on to explore some of the elements such as the sidebar, related search suggestions and wonder wheel in a bit more detail.What’s Changed
- The Google logo is about 30% larger.
- There is now a permanent sidebar left of the results that allows filtering by news, blogs, images, etc., as well as time range filters and options for changing how search results are displayed.
- The searchbox is now the full width of the results column, slightly taller, and has a slight drop shadow rather than the previous inner shadow.
- No more top vertical bar. The result count now sits just below the searchbox and is much smaller than before. The filter for searching locally moved from under the searchbox to the sidebar.
- Search results are now 55 pixels higher on the page and have have a higher density overall (there’s slightly less vertical space between results, and indented results have only one third of their previous margin).
- Cached, Similar, Show more, and Related links all changed from a muted purple to a brighter light blue and now only have an underline on hover.
- Pagination is about 30% larger, and there is still a searchbox below the pagination, though the blue background has been removed.
- Related searches are now displayed much more compactly.
The necessity above all else of keeping your metadata might seem like a geeky affectation – something that is really only of interest to librarians (itself not a bad reason) or trainspotterish data-completists – but it is in fact the simplest and cheapest route for a publisher to future-proof their business…So why do everything you can to keep metadata intact? Because it’s from this information that new products can be automatically created, at a scale and rapidity that would be impossible otherwise. With every piece of metadata that you don’t throw away, you gain a factor more potential ways of slicing through your content and delivering it as a separate product, simply as a result of a database lookup. He’s working on a CMS that will somehow ensure/mandate the capture of metadata as the story is created, and also permit easy cross-platform publishing.
USiT is the user experience team within News Digital Media, based in Sydney, Australia. The team works on the design of a wide range of web, mobile and internal applications.
