Category: social networks
Challenges and Risks of Pervasive Computing
Interesting introductory article in a IEEE Computing Now special issue on Privacy Challenges for Pervasive Computing: ARTICLE
This is something we should account for when designing such systems.
Tech Revolutions? They shouldn’t be a surprise
It’s time to design the next Calendar App: Design lessons on building Mynd
Mynd is a competeley new kind of Calendar App developed by Alminder, a seed-funded team who had previously worked together at Motorola. In this article, they shared a few of the design lessons that were learned while creating a Windows Phone-style interface for Apple’s iPhone [ARTICLE].
I must admit that with some of my co-authors we developed a prototype few years ago which somehow resembled the app (see photo below): Teresa Onorati, Alessio Malizia, Kai A. Olsen, Paloma Diaz, and Ignacio Aedo. 2012. I feel lucky: an automated personal assistant for smartphones. In Proceedings of the International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI ’12), Genny Tortora, Stefano Levialdi, and Maurizio Tucci (Eds.). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 328-331 [ARTICLE].
Via Alessio Malizia
New Companies should learn that Storydoing is better than Storytelling
The big difference and value is in storydoing through action an not in communication only, e.g. storytelling. Examples of story doers are: Target, Walt Disney, Starbucks, American Express, Apple, Jet Blue, and IBM among others. In this study, published on the Harvard Business Review Blog, there is even evidence that storydoing companies are generating a substantially greater number of mentions in social media [ARTICLE]
Via HBR
The good old dilemma: Industry or Academia?
Very interested in Social Networks? Read these 7 studies and get your own key takeaways
Very nice article, published on buffer blog, about key facts and actions points extracted from 7 Social Media studies [ARTICLE]
Via buffer blog
Who decides what you are going to watch next? An algorithm
Inventables – a marketplace for developers and designers
Leena Rao reports on an interesting initiative: Inventables is a marketplace for hardware and parts for crafting and developing objects or products which fosters design. In fact, whenever you click on a product or part you will find related projects carried out by other users with the same parts or materials. Could inspire future design or collaboraboration but unfortuantely doesn’t seem very populated right now [ARTICLE]
Via: TechCrunch
User Personas are not enough – they focus too much on personality and less on users’ tasks
Paul Baog comments in this article why user personas might fall short when desiging for Web usability [ARTICLE]
Image source: http://boagworld.com/design/user-personas/
IEEE publishes a new journal on Internet of Things
Ieee is giving the relevance it deserves to Internet of Things by publishing a new journal [ARTICLE]