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Vuoden ilahduttavin

6. tammikuuta 2009

Toisaalla olen jo listannut viime vuoden parhaat levyt, mutta täällä blogin puolella pitää ehdottomasti mainita vuoden ilahduttavin sovellus. Se on musiikkisofta Spotify.

Paitsi että Spotify tarjoaa oivallisen kavalkadin kaikenlaista musiikkia (ja etenkin aivan hillittömiä kasarikokoelmia), se on alun etsi ja löydä -vaiheen jälkeen varsin ketterä käyttää - etenkin jos muistaa olla aktiivinen hiiren oikean näppäimen kanssa. Myös TechCrunch hehkuttaa Spotifyä:

"The user experience is beyond even the best web based streaming services like LaLa, MySpace Music and Imeem. It acts like a fully stocked iTunes, with everything hyperlinked to easily find related music. Creating playlists is a snap. There is no way to move music outside of the application, or onto music devices. But it is the best way to legally find and stream music for free that I’ve seen."

Spotify on kutsun saaneille ilmainen käyttää, vaikka toimiikin toistaiseksi vain muutamissa maissa (Suomi mukaanlukien). Siihen voi ostaa myös päiväpassin tai maksaa kuukausihintaa. Toistaiseksi maksan vain Flickrin käytöstä, mutta luulenpa, että Spotify seuraa pian perässä.

Käytettävyys, Musiikilliset
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Herkut 31.12.2008

31. joulukuuta 2008

• JUS: Heuristic Evaluation Quality Score (HEQS): Defining Heuristic Expertise (pdf)
  What makes a good usability evaluator? This study attempts to define the features and qualifications.
  (tags: usability heuristic-evaluation research)

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Halp

29. joulukuuta 2008

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Herkut 28.12.2008

28. joulukuuta 2008

• Verkkoyhteisöt: Lektioluento 19.12.2008
  Miia Kososen verkkoyhteisöjä koskevan väitöstutkimuksen lektioluento.
  (tags: verkkoyhteisö lektio väitös)
• Proceedings - UPA Europe 2008
  The first European conference of the Usability Professionals' Association (UPA), which was dedicated to Usability and Design, was held in the beginning of December. Nearly all the presentations are available online and they are worthwhile exploring.
  (tags: UPA conference design usability proceedings presentations UX HCI)
• Turkka Keinonen: Immediate, Product and Remote Design (pdf)
  This paper presents a macro level model of design with three internally coherent modes of design. These are immediate des ign dealing with users' immediate situated challenges, traditional product design creating generally appealing solutions, and remote design, which elaborates on preconditions for design such as knowledge, platforms and standards. The need for the model is justified by a discussion addressing a set of conflicting trends called design tensions within the design of complicated human-technology systems. These include technology, innovation, competence, readiness and generality tensions. Finally, the impact of immediate and remote design on design education and design business is discussed. (via Ville)
  (tags: design product-design user-centered-design information-society design-strategy)
• HBS Working Knowledge: 10 Reasons to Design a Better Corporate Culture
  Why is it that many of the same companies appear repeatedly on lists of the best places to work, the best providers of customer service, and the most profitable in their industries? We can learn a great deal from organizations whose strong and adaptive ownership cultures give them a powerful competitive edge. Here are our top 10 lessons.
  (tags: design business culture management productivity leadership)

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Herkut 25.12.2008

25. joulukuuta 2008

• Logic+Emotion: The Social Media Guru Curve
  See the picture.
  (tags: socialmedia fun guru social-media)
• Trends in the Living Networks: Our trend map for 2009: The vital Trends, Risks, and Red Herrings you must know
  Created by Future Exploration Network's Chief Futurist Richard Watson, also of NowandNext.com, the 2009 trend map moves on from the subway map theme of the last years to show the multi-tentacled hydra that is the year ahead. Core themes include: Uncertainty, Ageing, Global Connectivity, Anxiety, and Power Shift Eastwards.
  (tags: research trends future marketing 2009)
• UXalliance - The international network for user experience
  Back in 2005 the leading user experience companies from France, Germany, Spain, UK and US met in Barcelona with a single common goal in mind: how to provide effective international user experience services to our clients. Having worked together on international projects for many years, we recognised that we were ideally placed to lead international user experience research. Thus, the UXa was born. (And still they don't know how to give titles to web pages.)
  (tags: design usability research UX organisation userexperience)
• servicedesign.org
  Servicedesign.org is a glossary of terms related to Service Design.
  (tags: service-design glossary servicedesign directory)
• TrendsSpotting Presents "Influencers' Predictions" slides collection. Issue 1 - Social Media Trends 2009
  "We have reused Peter Kim's wonderful predictions gathered from social media influencers, we summarized the predictions, used tag clouds to help you focus, added insights gathered from Read Write Web and of course, added our own inputs. So here it is - the first from the influencers and experts collection."
  (tags: socialmedia trends social media 2009)
• Webster's New World: Word of the Year 2008: Overshare
  Overshare has increasingly been used to reference those who divulge excessive personal information, online as well as offline.
  (tags: oversharing word social-networking sharing)
• BBC NEWS: More shoppers online at Christmas
  More than five million people are expected to use the internet to carry on shopping on Christmas Day, the online retail group IMRG says. IMRG estimates more than £100m will be spent online, compared with the £84m spent last year.
  (tags: shopping webshop online-shopping)
• Service Design Design Patterns / FrontPage
  This is a wiki for capturing design patterns about service design.
  (tags: design servicedesign wiki patterns design-patterns)
• Designing Product Service System - home
  This wiki aims at collecting cases, methods and reflections about Service design. (It has a weird name, tho.)
  (tags: design wiki servicedesign service-design)

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Uudelle alustalle

25. joulukuuta 2008

Heinäkuussa otin esiin aikomukseni vaihtaa blogialustaa Movable Typestä Wordpressiin. Nyt tästä aikomuksesta pitäisi tehdä totta. Samaan syssyyn myös ulkoasu saisi mielihyvin päivittyä. Jos siis lukijoiden joukosta löytyy joku teknisesti/visuaalisesti taitava (tai kaksi), niin ota yhteyttä, sähköposti on tuossa oikealla puolella. Ja vielä: ilmaista työtä ei tarvitse tehdä!

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Rauhallista joulua

24. joulukuuta 2008

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Herkut 20.12.2008

20. joulukuuta 2008

• SocialComputingMagazine.com: The Top Internet Predictions for 2009
  Constantly updated list of technology predictions for 2009, a round-up of what some of the leading industry prognosticators are saying about what they think is in store for everyone's favorite pervasive global network next year.
  (tags: technology future 2009 internet)
• trendwatching.com: Half a dozen consumer trends for 2009
  Next year is all about nichetributes, luxyoury and econcierge, to name a few of the key trends.
  (tags: design consumer trends marketing technology trendwatching)
• IDEO: Design for Social Impact (pdf)
  IDEO's How-to Guide offers principles of design for social impact and a menu of offerings for types of social impact engagements that might make sense for your firm.
  (tags: design guide social)
• Influential Marketing Blog: The 5 Stages Of Twitter Acceptance
  Anyone who works with fast moving technology knows that there is always a new shiny tool that gets all the attention. It tends to change every few months and anytime you start to use a new tool, you do secretly wonder if it will be around all that long. By any measure, Twitter has passed these boundaries. It has been around for several years. Every day more and more people discover it and it's usefulness in their personal lives. Yet many of the people who declare themselves "converted" and have opened Twitter accounts aren't getting the best benefit.
  (tags: twitter social-media microblogging socialnetworking)
• Digitoday: Sosiaalinen media tuo friikit yrityksiin
  Sosiaalinen media tarjoaa yrityksille merkittäviä liiketoimintamahdollisuuksia, mutta vaatii ajattelutavan uudistamista ja avoimuutta. Parhaita osaajia ei enää synny pelkästään koulun penkeillä ja yrityksissä, vaan yritysten ulkopuolella on paljon internetissä itseoppineita eri alojen asiantuntijoita, joiden osaaminen yritysten tulisi hyödyntää. Luovien liiketoimintamahdollisuuksien kehittäminen sosiaalisessa mediassa vaatii myös innovatiivisia muutosagentteja.
  (tags: sosiaalinen-media yritys)

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WCAG 2.0 ansaitsee oman laulun

19. joulukuuta 2008

Onneksi edes joku taho on innostunut uudesta Web Content Accessibility Guidelines -ohjeistuksesta. [via]

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Lämpö

18. joulukuuta 2008

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