Rob Enslin // Web standards advocate and user-centred design appreciator. Oh, and a social media enthusiast too.
I've been helping a team at work with a registration process. The first step is to identify the current process and note any obvious problems with user journey's.
I've never visited an art exhibit, however today I attended a UX Field trip event, organised by Alice, exploring local art. Today's trip took us to the Kemistry Gallery to see Typographica (11 September – 31 October). I walked away feeling inspired by the cleverly curated collect photographic pieces and like-minded folks from our local London UX/IA social group http://london-ia.ning.com
The journal (Typographica) was founded by a 25 year-old Herbert Spencer, who went on to become one of the most influential British communication designers and typographers. Typographica’s pioneering content included concrete poetry, avant-garde type experiments and photo-documentary, all highlighting Spencer’s ability to fuse images and words in meaningful new relationships, and featured the work of, among many others, Dieter Rot, Robert Brownjohn and Alexander Rodchenko.
We spent time admiring and 'seeing' the stories from snippets of the 32 publications (two 16 series: Old and New series) presented as re-prints around the gallery. I particularly enjoyed Hernert Spencer's "Mile-a-Minute" edition as well as his "Piet Zwart" piece too. Robert Brownjohn's "Street Level" was seriously inspiring too. I managed to take some sketch notes of interest bits found myself thinking a little harder about the "juxtaposed, accidental or design" question posed after a photo appeared of a shop sign 'ACCESSORIES' with the first 'C' lying at an odd angel provoking that very question (juxtaposed, accidental or design).
After the viewing we spent some time catching up on studies, work and our mobile worlds... with special attention being played to the new social network iPhone/Android app, Foursquare.
Posterous is proud to announce the ability to change the look and feel of your Posterous blog! It's been a long time coming, and are we ever excited about releasing this feature to you guys today.
With this recent announcement I believe Posterous will secure even more traction as a micro-blogging platform. Other than five off-the-shelf themes, Posterous also offers customisable headers and colours. And that's not all. Posterous have also catered for the geeks out there. They're given account holders the ability to customise further through access to HTML and CSS.
For more information on theming visit the 'Custom Themes' page.
If you wondered what all the hype is surrounding Google's new web app, Google Fast Flip, then look no further. Here I run through the basics of this app and demonstrate how Google have managed to find middle ground between online news content and RSS. What's noticeable is how any display advertorial content has been removed from the thumb views (small and large) yet they manage to keep their ads in tact (as you'd expect).
Personally, I like it and will start to use it more than my RSS reader... for now that is.
Richard Bacon discusses Twitter with Kerry McCarthy - the new Ministerial Twitter Tsar - about Twitter's merits. There are plan to introduce Twitter voting for the next elections - in much the same way Obama ran his successful campaign.
The new iPhone app was made available yesterday and I like the new design changes.
With the previous app version I found the horizontal scroll tab navigation difficult to use. Now we have an option to view the 'desktop-like' User Interface (above). Unlike the previous small touch tabbed area, requiring a degree of accuracy, we now have large icons (with clear communication) with which to access areas of the app.
The Facebook designers have also added iPhone learned inferences like the small white dots in the footer to indicate multiple pages available.
