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Customer Service, Design in the Wild, Gold Star, Interface, Social, Thoughts
Design in the Wild: Get Satisfaction’s Social Onboarding Process
03.31.08 | Permalink | 6 CommentsGet Satisfaction is an awesome site devoted to providing a platform for companies, as well as the people who use their products, to provide (and share) support for their products. It’s a top notch approach to customer service that does a great job at leveraging current technology as well as current social community behavioral trends [...]
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Design in the Wild, Thoughts
Design in the Wild: Air Conditioner Cages and total lack of planning
Note the bars on the inside of the cage, making it impossible to actually put an air conditioner in the cage. As an aside, I was imagining that keeping a wild animal in that cage might make for an exciting local attraction.
Hope you never need to use the basement hatch for anything.
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Design in the Wild, Social, Thoughts
Design in the Wild: American Science and Surplus - a folksonomy gone bad
03.28.08 | Permalink | 2 CommentsThis is an example of the risk you always run when you let your users run wild without a sense of controlled (or suggested) vocabulary. Here we’ve got lots of what looks like usernames and a bunch of gobbledygook - neither of which is particularly useful to the rest of the community.
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Data, Design in the Wild, Gold Star, Review, Thoughts
Design In The Wild: Weather Underground and their personal touch
Weather Underground has been my go-to source for weather on the web for the past 5 years ever since my buddy Gabe introduced me to it. At first the site felt way too information heavy for me but after giving it a chance I’ve grown to love all that data, partly due to the care [...]
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Customer Service, Design in the Wild, Gold Star, Social, Thoughts
Design In The Wild: Vineacity - an interesting take on the display of public reputations
A colleague at work recently pointed me to Newsvine’s concept of “vineacity.” For them, “vineacity” is a quantifiable measure of your behavior on and relationship to, the Newsvine community.
That behavior boils down to 6 key metrics that get represented as branches on a, you guessed it, vine. These vine icons, concisely denoting varying degrees [...] -
Design in the Wild
Design In The Wild: Daylight Savings Time Hack
This is how my friend Sara dealt with the “hassle” of resetting her clock for Daylight Savings Time.
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Data, Design, Design in the Wild, Thoughts
Design in the Wild: Using real-world data to augment the design
I wanted to highlight Apple’s subtle way of enhancing their data presentation. The iGoogle themes that change according to the time of day is another great example of this. What can you do to make your design feel more “alive”?
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Design in the Wild, Thoughts
Design in the Wild: Nokia’s “birth control” phone
I got to see one of these while I was up at Nokia this week. Back at ITP I remember being so envious of the quality of photos these odd-looking little devices devices would take. I really love this as a design artifact because of the way its a total design mashup of past and [...]
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Design in the Wild
Design in the Wild: Apple’s Home Screen - icons like little organisms
02.28.08 | Permalink | 3 CommentsEverything about how Apple chose to introduce Home Screen customization (and teach people how to use it) really captured what Apple gets and so many people completely miss.
Clear instructions, followed by the icons going from dormant to “wiggly” is just an excellent example of a well-executed, playful user experience.
This action gave me the same satisfaction [...] -
Design, Design in the Wild, Gold Star
Design in the Wild: The Cadillac of Sippy Tops
The best top to a To Go coffee cup I’ve ever encountered was found at the awesome Grey Dog’s Coffee. No longer are you faced with a “no turning back” approach to opening your coffee. Instead you can open and close your coffee at will should you come across a bumpy patch on your way [...]
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