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:ratio | user experience architects
Dear readers,
I’m happy and proud to announce that the Website of our new User Experience Agency is now up and running. Please check us at: http://8ratio.ch. Here is a short description of the agency:
:ratio is a freshly created user experience and usability consulting agency, striving to design user-friendly and intuitive interfaces and make [...]
Wii-like interaction for flash-based games
The evolution of Web2.0 in 2009
The end of the year is usually the opportunity to see back what happened in order to inform what would happen next year. This interesting post gathers thoughts of 8 web2.0 gurus about the evolution of web2.0 in 2009. I gather here some of the thoughts I found interesting:
Chris Brogan from New Marketing Labs anticipates [...]
Starting startups in bad economy time?
in a piece, Paul Graham talk about creating startups during recession times and bad economy perspective. Hereafter I gather some of the main ideas:
The economy is obviously bad and common-sense may suggest that it is a bad idea to start new businesses such as start-ups. Graham claims that it is neither a bad nor a [...]
Myspace confuses Switzerland and Sweden
I’m not really used to go to the myspace site very often but I went there recently and was suprised to see that they somehow constraint you to access a localized version of the social-networking site. So the main page offers for swiss residents the choice between the three main languages: “German”, “French” and “Italian”. [...]
Dashboard-design: the common mistakes
I’m doing some counceling and consulting for a french campagny designing a fully online project-management and collaboration tool and one of the challenge is to reorganize the summary of the project in an overview allowing to have a quick look at the state of the project and allow users to plannify in consequence. Hence, I [...]
Massive or Casual? the evolution of video-game consumption
Recently, besides the “Sterlingian-inspired” elucubrations about the future of the European politics and the potential role the ambitious french president will play in, the now traditional “parallel-monologue” sessions with F. Kaplan are mainly turning around the entertainment industry. It made me think about the evolution of the video-game industry these past 5 years. I came [...]
Swype a new way to input text on touch-screens.
This new technology called Swype is nothing more than amazing. it allows a new paradigm of text-input for touch screens. Best is having a look on this video from Cnet recorded at the Techcrunch50.
Swype
Dating through genetic compatibility
A brand new startup called GenePartner based in Switzerland propose a dating service based on genetic compatibility testing. Here is the discription they provide on the website:
At GenePartner we are dedicated to help you find your ideal life partner. Our formula is based on research on hundreds of couples and analyzes the pattern of genetic [...]
Matthew Frederick’s Architecture design principles
After reading the recent post of LukeW, the temptation to steal some of the insights have been to hard. Here is my own selection among the selection of Matthew Frederick’s good design principles from “101 Things I Learned in Architecture School.
The more specific a design idea is, the greater its appeal is likely to be. [...]
