Loves user oriented design. Hates blister packs. Able to see the future.
POP worked closely with the developing markets team at Microsoft to do concepting for Microsoft discovery and user testing sessions in Asia. Microsoft’s ThinMan project is a “getting started” concept aimed at helping new computer users become comfortable using Microsoft products. The work done by POP included crafting simple personas and user experience flows in order to help Microsoft craft their local user testing.
Download ThinMan Personas & User Flow (PDF 278KB)
Lyric Opera of Chicago is one of the premier opera houses in the United States. This was not well reflected in their site at the time of this project. POP met in Chicago with key stakeholders to run 2 days of discovery meetings and create a project proposal. In preparation for this discovery POP worked with Lyric to collect survey data from current Lyric supporters as well as analyze site metrics. The below documents are samples of how POP communicated what was learned from these exercises.
The Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) is the largest film festival in the United States. POP has a long history of working with SIFF, as well as other film festivals around the country. These film festivals typically run all event and venue management via a proprietary application developed by POP. SIFF’s primary goals included creating a branded experience that represented the festival’s world class status, offering a richer multi-media experience, and creating an effective market channel for the SIFF Cinema experience which runs 365 days a year.
The Melbourne Theatre Company (MTC) came to POP for a complete overhaul of their existing Web site. The existing site was managed via HTML editing, lacked any kind of dynamic content and failed to reflect the richness of the theater and MTC’s new building. The theater company’s primary goals included increasing online ticket sales, creating a compelling site to encourage return visits, and improving Web site management by implementing a CMS. This site launched in September 2008.
I’m working on sorting out a method to support an enterprise wide desire to “use twitter” in an effective manner. Currently I’m looking for tips, hints and best practices. Got any?
Here are a few resources I’m perusing to get my philosophy together. My goal is to take a managed and targeted approach rather than just allowing deparments to start spamming our audience with unregulated tweets.
All Links Are Not Equal: Why Twitter Links Grow Conversation
Beth’s Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve used the Lorem Ipsum generator when doing site “blue prints”. The Waffle Generator is a fun alternative that is a little safer to use than the complaint letter generator…
Waffle vs Lorem Ipsum Below:
Waffle:
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Lorem Ipsum:
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Yeah, its been a million years since I posted anything and its likely no one is reading this anyway so it doesn’t matter!
Cool infographics in Sprint TV ad. About the only cool thing that can be said about Sprint these days. Definitely worth taking a look at!
I’m not sure how this is implemented and/or if this is something that can be done for other videos on YouTube but Nintendo‘s promotional video for Shake It has a very cool effect: it shakes the site apart.
As I was watching the game play video I didn’t even initially realize that the screen was shaking and beginning to break down from the “vibration” happening within the video. Its very subtle initially. Eventually the whole thing breaks down leaving a “pile” of pieces that can be grabbed and moved around on the screen.
Definitely check it out!
OK, its always cool when someone wants to try and “push the envelope” by coming up with some new way to navigate information. Unfortunately, this one just seems to not make much sense to me. Windowshop‘s call to action is for you to “Lose yourself in Amazon bestsellers and find what you’ve been missing.” Unfortunately, the experience is a little random and the motion is a bit much, makes me a bit queasy. Additionally, I don’t like having to move up, down, left, right to see whatever content is being offered to me. It manages to make my 24″ monitor feel small… a pretty big feat! On the positive side, a graphical view into what’s new does expose me to items I would otherwise have had no interest in or knowledge of.
First draft beta: cool. I hope they keep up the creativity and come up with a different spin on it.
This sounds pretty cool. If I just had enough money to run out and buy a new computer and CS4 I could tell you all about it…
I can see that zooming and moving objects around on the screen would be very handy in CS4. I work with large digital photos and a Wacom tablet right now but having the ability to pinch, squeeze, and spin the image to inspect and work on various parts would be a great feature.
I wonder who will follow Adobe and be next to see a value in supporting multi-touch. It certainly won’t be long until PC hardware supports this across the board.
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