MSN Visualizer

Posted by sheryl in Trend Watching on January 31, 2012

MSN Visualizer is the kind of piece that makes you think Microsoft are definitely changing in a good way. It’s that beautiful image inspired design of the Metro style, but this time an interesting play with Flickr and music. The best way to experience it is to just try it out for yourself. As The Verge says, it’s just “mesmerising”.

via The Verge

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Research: Half of U.S. shoppers rely on phones for in-store research

Posted by sheryl in Trend Watching on January 31, 2012

via GigaOM – Half of U.S. shoppers rely on phones for in-store research — Tech News and Analysis

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Lark Wristband

Posted by sheryl in Trend Watching on January 30, 2012

This kind of thing I find interesting, as when I was at Uni, my then thesis project was all about Persuasive design and about changing behaviour.

I love this intersect between the physical and digital, the “wearable” or as they call it “appcessories”.

Source:

Lark Wristband Reveals the Best Lifestyle Choices For a Good Night's Sleep | Gadget Lab | Wired.com.

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Video: Windows Phone 7.5 – Mango

Posted by sheryl in Trend Watching on January 30, 2012

Warning: A long long video, but interesting nonetheless.

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Walkbase auto-checkin app

Posted by sheryl in Trend Watching on January 29, 2012

This new location aware service sounds pretty interesting. It goes beyond auto-check-in and extends location awareness to map the room and space, even the level of the building you are in. But I think what’s most exciting is that they’re opening their API to developers. Super keen to see where this takes the location aware and mobile space.

Source:

Walkbase showcases indoor location tech with auto check-in app — Tech News and Analysis.

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Clear to-do app

Posted by sheryl in Trend Watching on January 29, 2012

Source: ArsTechnica

Love this. Reminds me a little of IA writer – clean, beautiful focussed design, and they didn’t just stick to traditional iPhone paradigms!

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Video: The Joy of Books

Posted by sheryl in Blog on January 29, 2012

Made me smile, even though I prefer paperbacks on Kindle.

Though my general rule is that design and UX related books must generally have a physical copy.

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Trapit – Personalised News Aggregator

Posted by sheryl in Trend Watching on January 12, 2012

I played around with the Beta yesterday and I must say I quite like it. The UI is striking yet somehow friendly at the same time, and they’ve made it super easy to get started with suggested traps. I think it is definitely a great resource for strategy research and benchmarking, particularly if you have

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Why Flat Organizations Don’t Create Great Leaders [Link]

Posted by sheryl in Blog on January 12, 2012

Having worked in a company with a very flat organisation structure, this article below is extremely interesting. From my own experience, in lieu of having hierarchy, we’ve had to make do with mentoring relationships instead – which has worked to some degree, though as we’ve grown in size I have definitely felt that it might

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Sony SmartWatch

Posted by sheryl in Trend Watching on January 11, 2012

So maybe the watch isn’t dead after-all. I’ve been seeing a lot of watches in gadget news lately. I find the integration with the Android phone via Bluetooth an interesting relationship – not to mention the difficulty of designing for such a micro screen. At first glance, looks like they did an OK job of

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Facebook Puts Friends In A Benz

Posted by sheryl in Trend Watching on January 11, 2012

I’ve always been interested in the Connected Car space. It’s one area that I feel noone has really tapped into… YET – or atleast done well in, aside from some stuff by Pandora and OnStar that I heard about at SXSW 2011.

So this is therefore a really interesting move for Facebook to continue to

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Showtime Anytime iPad app

Posted by sheryl in Trend Watching on January 11, 2012

I downloaded this app today to give it a whirl. The UI is clean, simple and does the job well. Now if only we could have similar apps in Australia!

Showtime Anytime app brings select movies, TV to iPad | Electronista.

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