On a pink, green, and white cloud, reading a book at Greenlake, with a daisy chain in a field of flowers, Seattle, Washington, USA, originally uploaded by Wonderlane.
Thursday, April 21, 2011
On a pink, green, and white cloud, reading a book at Greenlake, with a daisy chain in a field of flowers, Seattle, Washington, USA
On a pink, green, and white cloud, reading a book at Greenlake, with a daisy chain in a field of flowers, Seattle, Washington, USA, originally uploaded by Wonderlane.
Cinderella's Silver Halloween PUMPKINS in a Bed of Pink Flowers and decorative cabbage, Roses, brass bed frame, Mill Rose Inn, Half Moon Bay, California, USA
A tender moment with a sunset and a huge wall of black glass and steel, typical cityscape, San Francisco, California, USA anyplace ...
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Just moved, esh!, living room, main floor, sofa, sleeping Rosie, heater, tables, boxes, lamps, mirrors, pillows, clothes, art, wide screen TV, curtains, modem, router, carpets - what a mess, worse move yet, Broadview, Seattle, Washington, USA
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
File Under "This Makes Me Feel Better"
"Designers get pulled off projects and their ego is bruised. Feeling hurt is how they should feel. If their ego wasn’t bruised, they weren’t trying hard enough. Professionalism means they don’t show it, but if they are good designers, they care. And caring means feeling pain sometimes."
- Christina Wodtke
GM of Social at Myspace
http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/fear_of_design
Many designers work alone in large corporate environment - just like I frequently do - they need to know that not every project will be continued or successful. The fact that one feels pain when a project fails is good - it means you are a professional who cares about your work!
- Christina Wodtke
GM of Social at Myspace
http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/fear_of_design
Many designers work alone in large corporate environment - just like I frequently do - they need to know that not every project will be continued or successful. The fact that one feels pain when a project fails is good - it means you are a professional who cares about your work!
Monday, June 28, 2010
User interface changes in large corporations - 5 drivers in customization, personalization, internationalization, UI display and process
Many large corporate sites already provide unique services tied to individual identity. Large corporations are planning to do the same at the top level of their main Website; in effect corporations want to provide every business partner and customer their own membership “site” or “view” of the corporate site, in effect giving a face to the customer, their own!
Another very big consideration in redesigns right now is the Asian market, specifically China, and India. Most of the Asian market accesses the Web over mobile and other handheld devices. With this in mind, identity and device recognition (or device agnostic sites) for small screens are two of the major drivers in this change.
The 3rd major consideration is auto selection and personalization. In this way it is hoped that both the company and individuals can control what is displayed on sites – showing people just what they are interested in or more well stated – what they need.
The shotgun approach of presenting everything and expecting the end user to navigate to what they want is expected to wind down and come to an end. In particular it is too time consuming, confusing, and causes opportunity loss (loss of sales or conversion). Many large software firns are close followers in this effort, mostly due to how large a project it is. Notable exceptions include Amazon, and the micro sales sections of Google. Followers notably include Microsoft.
Other drivers besides (multiple) identities within the corporate software platforms (including identities related to such things as gaming), are the language /locale issues which still remain problematic on many large corporate Internet properties.
A 4th driver is tracking results (page views / sales) for both A / B testing and efficiency and success of design and auto selection processes. This does not include 3rd level stuff such as triangulation between sales results. Usually this is termed "profiling" but in this sense it means presenting items that consumers would actually be interested - a great example of this is Amazon's site.
Shopping helps aid the Amazon algorithm to tell what interests consumers. But even here the end user has the ability to say "Nope, I'm not interested in this."
A 5th driver is process. After I do X, what should I do? What is a logical process customer/end user should follow? Perhaps there are freebees or other information perks which make sense to include in a download process, or just as information (on demand or that is, as needed) within the process they are engaged in using.
Looking forward to more personalization in process driven large corporate Websites.
Another very big consideration in redesigns right now is the Asian market, specifically China, and India. Most of the Asian market accesses the Web over mobile and other handheld devices. With this in mind, identity and device recognition (or device agnostic sites) for small screens are two of the major drivers in this change.
The 3rd major consideration is auto selection and personalization. In this way it is hoped that both the company and individuals can control what is displayed on sites – showing people just what they are interested in or more well stated – what they need.
The shotgun approach of presenting everything and expecting the end user to navigate to what they want is expected to wind down and come to an end. In particular it is too time consuming, confusing, and causes opportunity loss (loss of sales or conversion). Many large software firns are close followers in this effort, mostly due to how large a project it is. Notable exceptions include Amazon, and the micro sales sections of Google. Followers notably include Microsoft.
Other drivers besides (multiple) identities within the corporate software platforms (including identities related to such things as gaming), are the language /locale issues which still remain problematic on many large corporate Internet properties.
A 4th driver is tracking results (page views / sales) for both A / B testing and efficiency and success of design and auto selection processes. This does not include 3rd level stuff such as triangulation between sales results. Usually this is termed "profiling" but in this sense it means presenting items that consumers would actually be interested - a great example of this is Amazon's site.
Shopping helps aid the Amazon algorithm to tell what interests consumers. But even here the end user has the ability to say "Nope, I'm not interested in this."
A 5th driver is process. After I do X, what should I do? What is a logical process customer/end user should follow? Perhaps there are freebees or other information perks which make sense to include in a download process, or just as information (on demand or that is, as needed) within the process they are engaged in using.
Looking forward to more personalization in process driven large corporate Websites.
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