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I recently came accross a fantastic series of political posters at Flickr, by PropogandaTimes. Especially liked how simplified the terms & conditions between classes are emphasized. You can buy prints to these and many more designs at their website.
This is more of a reminder to myself (and to Luke) on how to change a situation to a decision.
See the orginal FlowingData post here.
Few days ago I had the chance to see most of the female protagonists (should i call them franchises?) of Disney at one post. The post itself was on the artistic quality of these drawings, but it allowed me to see how, unsurprisingly, articulate Disney has been with their story telling. How they brand their products to be more precise.
We were told before our Visual studies class that “This lecture will ruin your whole movie experience” so did this blog post.
Approximately 6 months ago, before the Tumblr-ization of the user-base of Twitter (aka increasing teenage users in twitter), the things that are trending in my homepage were almost matching the global news headlines. This allowed me to understand why a topic is trending. With the increasing amount of Twitter usage by different demographics the current UI is incapable of offering options to niche user types to enhance their experience.
The solution I would suggest without forcing users to too much learning. Is adding and ‘x’ button that replaces irrelevant trend with something else (a relevant trend to what that user talks about maybe?). I would improve this change with a trends page that aggregates Top X trends for whatever segments that can be used with demographics information that Twitter already has.
Imagining Away/ Contextually Targeted Advertising
I am not offering this solution only from UX perspective, having each user to administrate what they are/not interested will present a database of user interests to Twitter. Looking at the bigger picture, this is a the dream microtasking project, it will provide Twitter software a lead in analyzing what their users are interested in and equates to highly targeted contextual ad offer to their B2B clients.
I understand that Twitter gets 120000 different kicks out of suggested trends, but let’s face it that’s just another billboard to ignore.
I recently subscribed to LloydsTSB’s informative weekly balance text messaging service, and scheduled it to Thursday in order to be ready for the weekend ahead. Didn’t pay much attention to it’s content at the first couple of weeks. Once I needed the information it provides, and made an adjacent transaction I was unpleasantly surprised as I didn’t have enough money in my account. You know the story, you have to resort to your instant cash or fled the store in shame and under the egging mispleased eyes of others…
So in order to understand how much money I can actually spend I went online to see how much money I have in my account. I was not wrong I had enough ‘balance’ in my account but with some further digging in the interface (after 1 more click), i found that there is a statement such as ‘Available Funds’ showing how much money I can actually spend. Wonderful, within the context of online browsing and planning at an online bank profile. But when I am mobile and shopping if unsure about my level of disposable cash I am vulnerable and destined to spend more and more time online to do planning and budgeting.
I am aware that this post would be due to my lack of understanding of the concept of ‘balance’ to what it might refer in Finance/banking, but LloydsTSB should realize that they are trusted to be the interface between me and my money. Therefore when building services to offer customers on-site information, they have to keep the context the user would be in when they are using the information they are provided.
The more relevant you stay, the more sense you will make.
This morning I wanted to re-start using tweetdeck at a computer to which it was installed by somebody else.
At the login screen i am not given any option to add my tweetdeck account the application. The options i am given are;
‘if you are using tweetdeck for the first time in this computer (yes yes yes) click here’ which brings up the options to add my accounts to tweetdeck, – (oh, sir thanks but no thanks to that sir – )
‘if you are having problems logging in click here’ [http://support.tweetdeck.com/forums/63876/entries/74201 ], in that page you can find a forum entry that reminds the basics;
Ensure you have selected the correct account
Ensure you are logging in with the correct password
Ensure your account is not locked
Feel free to continue to the forum link to prove me wrong please.
After this stage i get back to the app to the fiddle around a bit more to see if there is a hidden option would appear if i attempt to enter an incorrect password.
I am sure this is due to my Monday morning disorder, but i switched of tweetdeck thinking that the notification i am getting after a failed entry for my password i should have been highlighted more effectively( simply the text that appears could have been in a colour that not used at the overlay).
What would have been better that this ?
1 – There could have been a default “Add new account” option at the username dropdown.
2 – ‘If this is the first time oyu’ve used TweetDeck on this compute click here’, I should be able to add my tweetdeck account after that option
This was my ticket for my today’s travel to the border office, i am really impressed with the type they used for the numbers!
this category will be devoted to my experiences as a freelance web-designer.
Never ever mark-up with unfinished content! let prince to become the king.
Keep calm.
Be objective. about deadlines and limitations
Keep sane
and more obviously
Don’t be taken granted.