Google TV – UX that missed the mark?

Posted by sheryl in Articles, IPTV, Musings on May 2, 2011

There’s been much discussion recently about Google TV, after reports of Logitech’s earnings – whose set-top-box “Revue” is powered by Google TV failed to meet expectations.

According to Mashable, and GigaOm,

Logitech expected to sell $18 million in Google TV-related products in Q4. But in its earnings report, the company

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TV Everywhere – Thoughts on designing for multiple devices

Posted by sheryl in Articles, Blog, IPTV, Musings on April 24, 2011

So I read an article on V-Net TV on DIRECTV’s multi-screen home ambitions, and I couldn’t help but get stuck on one line of the article – a quote by DIRECTV’s Senior VP of Engineering, Henry Derovanessian on designing for multiple platforms:

The key to making these blended services work across multiple platforms lies in building a

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Gawker sites redesign – a change too soon?

Posted by sheryl in Articles, Musings, UX on February 8, 2011

Given the large outcry by most people of the Gawker sites redesign, I wanted to take a look at the UX change in more detail. Change is always difficult – but is it always bad?

Generally, I think all change is initially met with trepidation, or in this case a great deal of scrutiny.  The

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UX breakdown: A look at The Daily

Posted by sheryl in Articles, Musings, UX on February 6, 2011

With the much hyped and anticipated launch of Rupert Murdoch’s foray into an iPad newspaper, The Daily, I downloaded the app to take a look at the overall user experience within the application.  Trying to ignore the much complained about bugs, crashes and long loading times (you can see a long string of complaints on

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Kinect – What’s the future of gesture recognition in the ten-foot experience?

Posted by sheryl in Articles, IPTV, Musings, UX on February 1, 2011

According to Microsoft, the popularity of Kinect has far exceeded expectations – in a conference call the following statement was made:

“Kinect, in particular, exceeded our expectation. Kinect is the fastest-selling consumer electronics device in history. It’s just our first step in delivering on the opportunity to fundamentally change the way people interact with technology.

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Being in sync – extending the interactive TV experience

Posted by sheryl in Articles, Blog, IPTV, Musings, UX on January 30, 2011

Next week, the US’s ABC network will announce their latest version of their Sync iPad app – this time for the popular Grey’s Anatomy series. The Sync application is a joint exploration of ABC and Nielsen’s Media Sync platform, which detects and synchronises content using audio watermarks. They’d previously attempted a version of this with

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Checking in on Social TV

Posted by sheryl in Articles, Blog, IPTV, Musings, UX on January 27, 2011

With Google recently acquiring fflick for YouTube, a service that provides movie recommendations based upon other user’s Twitter feeds, I thought it timely to take a look at the speeding trend towards what is often referred to as “Social TV” – and one aspect in particular that plays a large role: Entertainment check-in and recommendations

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