Infographic Of The Day: An Animated GIF Of The Music Industry's Death | Co. Design

Interesting data on the rise/fall of music delivery - eye-wateringly ugly animated GIF - Tufte would have a field day with this. Small multiples or better, to show trends, sparklines or animated bar charts (reminding of EQ sliders) to make it much more obvious and easy to read. Agree that looking at the data, in the midst of the rise of the CD, it would've been easy to think, as a music executive, that it would last forever. But even James Bond knows CDs aren't forever. ;)

tags: infographic FASTcompany music visualization trends innovation

The University of Untyped – Untyping

I love the idea of teams getting together to specifically learn together. That's one of the many reasons I'm joining up with several teams to round out 2010 and into 2011. Only so much I can learn myself, and it sticks better with others involved, since we can pound it into submission and really make things happen.

tags: university learning agile team work learning_organizations

An Ex-Pixar Designer Creates Astounding Kids' Book On iPad | Co. Design

"The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore" is like a well-written bedtime story and an immersive animated movie at once. E-books are already a fraught subject for many readers, writers, publishers and designers, but children's e-books are even more so. Is it rotting their minds? Is it as good as good ol' paper? Is it too interactive for their own good? Obviously there are no practical answers to such questions, but at least one children's e-book/app/thingie (what do we call these things, again?) is doing it very, very right. It's called "The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore," and it's like a well-written bedtime story and an immersive animated movie at once -- without being "too much" of either.

tags: iPad ebook book publishing publishing pixar experience_design

Gamification 101 | BigDoor

Big collection of gamification tips, links, glossaries, articles - provided by BigDoor, a gamification platform. Very rich set of information here.

tags: gamification

About | Influitive: Customer Advocacy Program Experts

"We Believe in Two Big but simple ideas: * Game-otivation: Making it fun for advocates to do their best work. We think that it should be just as engaging for advocates to help you build your business as it is for them to play their favorite game. * Social Nurturing: Connecting customer advocates exactly to the best prospects and other advocacy opportunities for them, at all phases of the buying process."

Interesting twist - an extends what I was writing about 6-7 years ago on relationship intelligence. Addressing complex sales and evangelism is very interesting.

tags: gamification incentives Customer advocacy

Welcome to the Brave New World of Persuasion Profiling | Magazine

Taking persuasion to the next level (ultimately) in mapping reactions to target interactions downstream (next page, next button) to what an individual reacts to.

Key takeaway point - people respond to a wide variety of techniques, stop trying a one size fits all approach in your marketing, sales, etc..

tags: persuasion advertising profiling wired

The Usabilla Blog » Do you trust me? Assessing Web credibility » The Usabilla Blog

Between Customer Development (Lean Startup) work, and Usability/User Experience testing lately, I'm more involved that ever in making useful interactions a reality.
Looking at usabilla as a possible feedback mechanism to give feedback that's not purely analytics driven, to balance out reports.

tags: research usability testing usabilla

Ethnio : Recruiting for User Research

Between Customer Development (Lean Startup) work, and Usability/User Experience testing lately, I'm more involved that ever in making useful interactions a reality.
Looking at ethn.io as a possible panel-driven source for upcoming work to feed into other services, phone call interviews, etc.

tags: research recruiting usability testing intercept ethnio

UserTesting.com – Low Cost Usability Testing

Between Customer Development (Lean Startup) work, and Usability/User Experience testing lately, I'm more involved that ever in making useful interactions a reality.

Looking at UserTesting as a possible panel-driven source for upcoming work.

tags: usability testing ux usertesting tools