Grammy Awards partner with CBS for digital experience

Posted by sheryl in Blog on February 6, 2012

This will be an interesting partnership. According to the article below one of the key issues is speed to delivering broadcast content online in a reasonable amount of time. And also keen to see how the two or three screen experience plays out.

via GigaOm – Grammy Awards partner with CBS for digital experience.

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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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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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Why MANY smart people are not social?

Posted by sheryl in Blog, Musings on November 20, 2011

Why MANY smart people are not social? | Rajesh Setty.

This is a really interesting article that I whole heartedly agree with.

In particular I love the idea that many of these people’s work is “so valuable that others will amplify it for them”.

A quick but interesting read.

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PRISMA 1666: touchscreen-controlled art

Posted by sheryl in Blog on November 10, 2011

PRISMA 1666 is touchscreen-controlled art | The Verge.

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UX Australia – Workshop: Turbocharge your workshops

Posted by sheryl in Blog, Conferences, UX, UX Australia on September 13, 2011

The one workshop I attended at UX Australia this year was by Andy Budd (@andybudd) from Clearleft – and it was called “Turbo-charge your workshops”. It’s affectionately known as “the workshop on workshopping”.

This was a great mix of discussion and hands on practical facilitation. In the matter of a half a day workshop, Andy

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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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NDS’s Snowflake

Posted by sheryl in Blog, Trend Watching on March 26, 2011

Snowflake 11 – Trailer – YouTube.

I do love watching these sales videos. An interesting concept, and visually brilliant, but knowing the realities and limitations of connected TVs right now…

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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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