Posted in Human Factors on Jan 31st, 2007
I stumbled onto (as opposed to actively searched for) a site describing a prototype for an updated desktop metaphor. The project is called the BumpTop and appears to be an outspring from a masters thesis by Anand Agarawala (an interesting fellow based on his personal site). The basic concept is to add a […]
Posted in Semantic Web, Social Networking on Jan 24th, 2007
During a conversation with one of our BizDev consultants I had (what I thought to be) a relatively original thought about a marketing strategy. To set the stage, I have little to no direct experience in marketing (as most of my recent experience was with a very well-known brand, ie. very easy to get […]
Posted in Human Factors on Jan 7th, 2007
Sound effects came up while discussing key elements to a product we’re developing. It’s relatively understood that sound is an important aspect to usage of various tools providing feedback to the user. While desktop applications employ them to a degree (often relying heavily on the standard “Something Bad Happened Alert”), they’re more often […]
