EverydayUX morsels (December 4th – December 9th)

Morsels

• Apple, Major League Baseball Team Up on iPad App | Latest Apple News Blog | Apple SKY
  MLB at Bat on the iPad may just be enough to seal the deal for me. Wow. Absolutely love what MLB.com's been doing.
• The iPad UI Dissected In Photos
  Nice little resource to get a sense of all the different UI elements coming in the iPad.
• LukeW | iPad Apps: Physicality and Heightened Realism
  Welcome to Hokeytown.
• LOS LOGOS :: Typography Served
  Nice case study on the approach to an identity design.
• LukeW | iPad User Experience Guidelines
  Nice high level summary of the iPad specific guidelines.
• What the iPad Means for the Future of Computing | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
  It makes me so happy to see sites designed for mobile use be better experiences than their web counterparts.
• Unleashing the Power of Website Analytics
  Nice high level primer on how to make sense of analytics data and roll that info back into your design process.
• Big Spaceship | Think Blog - Getting Past Viral
  One of the best pieces I've read addressing agencies' and brands' misguided belief that media can be engineered to be viral. A must read.
• delicious blog » Filter and browse
  Some new features from delicious. The one I'm most excited about is the ability to browse through a set of bookmarks. I always wished they'd offer a thumbnail with each bookmark but this will have to do.
• Why The Agency Of The Future Looks Like My Fantasy Baseball Team
  Nice piece on how the traditional agency model has to (and will) change.
• Launch: 37signals Answers - (37signals)
  Awesome account of rapid product development over at 37Signals.
• The social behavior incentive (how your app can be as addictive as Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare)
  Nice post by Scoble highlighting tactics for increasing social engagement.
• How to use a semicolon - The Oatmeal
  This is the best explanation I've read on the topic; I wish I'd read it, like, 30 years ago.
• Don’t allow yourself to be abused by employers (What I would tell interaction design students, #4 in a series) : peterme.com
  Just a great post on things you should find out about a company before you decide to hitch your wagon to them.
• Movie Posters - a set on Flickr
  Awesome minimalist interpretations of popular movie posters.
• Nicholas Felton | Feltron.com
  Awesome twist on this year's report. A must see.
• quotes on marketing, culture, and digital / what consumes me, bud caddell
  Great collection of quotes on marketing and culture collected by Bud Caddell. Good one to bookmark and follow as it grows.
• Deliverables vs. Delivery - 52 Weeks of UX
  An expose on the "Theater of Deliverables" that so many agencies (and clients) seem to be enamored with instead of focusing on activities that relate directly to what you're trying to make.
• Internet 2009 in numbers | Royal Pingdom
  Great collection of internet usage numbers from 2009. Time to update those decks!
• Feature Update: New Email Designs!
  Nice dissection of what is a complicated, and very important, problem for Aardvark to solve.
• Apple Service Might be a “Game Changer” | Inside Digital Media
  The repercussions of Apple going with this (rumored) new approach to content subscription could make things really interesting.
• Glue Labs: Revised LIKE Button
  Good dissection of a UX problem + nice solution.
• Logic+Emotion: The 5 Reasons You're Failing In Social Media
  It's really not more complicated but the truth can hurt.
• The iPhone Inspired DIY Kitchen Touch Screen Project
  Awesome DIY home kitchen appliance.
• How to Make a Heatmap – a Quick and Easy Solution | FlowingData
  Great tutorial + interesting NBA data visualization as an example.
• The 4 Big Myths of Profile Pictures « OkTrends
  Awesome analysis of the data gathered by OKCupid. I love this stuff.
• HUSH | Backdoor » Recent Noise / Interactive MultiTouch
  Really slick looking little multitouch prototype.
• Monetizing the Superuser | THE DREAM IN ACTION
  Totally agree with Ryan about what the proposed NYTimes pricing model means. Tying it back to the "superuser" is really nice too.
• My Greatest Mistake: Learn From Eight Luminaries | Magazine
  Great little nuggets of advice here from a refreshingly diverse list of people including Bill Clinton, Nick Denton, Mike Tyson and Terry Gilliam.
• 30 Gorgeous iPhone App Interfaces & Icons | iPhone.AppStorm
  Some really stunning stuff in here. Stop by and get inspired to break out of the Apple widgets (where appropriate, of course!)
• Social Media is No Holy Grail
  Is there any way to automatically email this article to anyone with the word "guru" in their title?
• Apple responsible for 99.4% of mobile app sales in 2009 (Updated)
  Holy Toledo! That's quite a head start.
• Apple's Proposed Multi-Touch UI System | UX Magazine
  This is just solid (and exciting if it turns out to be at least somewhat true) UX detective work.
• “Social” can’t be solved by an algorithm - SxDSalon
  Nice piece on the role of Social Search going forward.
• Is Your Registration Process Scaring Away Users? - ReadWriteStart
  Nice primer of Registration design best practices.
• Yahoo’s Big Plan for the Social Web in 2010: Aggregate It – GigaOM
  Call me crazy, but part of me thinks that Yahoo might be able to build something compelling in this space.
• Built It, Then Make Them Experts | Steffan Antonas
  Top notch piece on the importance of educating your users on the value of you offering and the interactions on your site.
• The Nambu Network | Blog | Retweet v. Retweet
  Great post from the point of view of a developer supporting the various incarnations of Retweet functionality in Twitter.
• 10 Creative Business Card Ideas | Inc.com
  A few really clever ones in here.
• Coming Soon: The New AccuWeather.com
  Nice way to preview a looming redesign.