Our client, Mazin Jadallah, was on Bloomberg TV today to talk about his business, AlphaClone
AlphaClone on Bloomberg TV
24 Jul 2012
iPad Prototype
24 Jul 2012
For all the talk of a 7" iPad coming from the tech press, NetworkWorld found evidence of an early iPad prototype that was revealed during the Apple/Samsung court proceedings. This one is much bigger than the iPad we know today. With the plastic back, it almost looks like something Apple might come up with for the education market.
Via Daring Fireball
Latency is the web's bottleneck
24 Jul 2012
In fact, upgrading from 5Mbps to 10Mbps results in a mere 5% improvement in page loading times! In other words, an average consumer in the US would not benefit much from upgrading their connection when it comes to browsing the web.
However, the latency graph tells an entirely different story. For every 20ms improvement in latency, we have a linear improvement in page loading times.
The only ones
23 Jul 2012
You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only ones who do what you do.
Creating Contiki's Mobile Site, Part 4: Implementation
23 Jul 2012
With the functional prototype and the design work in the can, we got the opportunity to start work on the front-end implementation for Contiki’s mobile website . Since we had a good dose of working with the jQuery mobile framework from the prototype, we were able to dive right in and get to work.
Feedback - 3 rules for collecting it from customers
22 Jul 2012
Our good friends over at Intercom have posted a great writeup on how to be strategic about collecting customer feedback.
Things I Learned at PhoneGap Day
21 Jul 2012
With the release of 2.0, I decided to give PhoneGap another look and head off to the launch talks. Here is a list of what I found interesting…
Mobile - Getting all of our content on mobile
20 Jul 2012
First order business is getting all of our content on mobile, in a format that’s readable, navigable, and searchable. Someone called me out recently for calling that “content strategy,” suggesting that making that happen isn’t really a “strategy.” You know what? It’s not. It’s tactical, it’s wonky, and it’s hard work. It’s also our most important job.
If I could prioritize the efforts of our community over the next 3-5 years, I’d spend 80% of our efforts on the problem of cleaning up our desktop content and getting it all (at least, all the good stuff) onto mobile. Let’s use our 20% experimental time to explore how to prioritize content differently based on what we think we can intuit about user intention based on device and location. And let’s give each of those problems the appropriate weight in our discussions.
Six Things You Need to Know About Your Users
19 Jul 2012
This whitepaper from Box UK combines psychological research with years of experience consulting on website usability to provide valuable insight into the online activities and decision-making of users. Focusing on six key areas, they reveal how wider behavioural trends affect our online interactions and offers clear and concise recommendations on how to use this information to improve user experience.
School’s Out...For Now
17 Jul 2012
As Alice Cooper put it so eloquently, school may be out for summer, but it’s most certainly not forever. While kids are busy with summer activities and teachers are taking their much needed breaks, some of us have been busy. With our design help TCI, a K-12 publishing company, released their new online tools for students and teachers, primed and ready for the 2012-2013 school year.