The Future of Tablets

Nasir Maman, a professor at Polytechnic Institute of NYU, demonstrates a system where a tablet recognizes the unique movement of a user's fingers.


See full demonstration @ http://nyti.ms/rNmsDn

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Getting Started With Defensive Web Design

The following artile is brought to you courtesy of: Smashingmagazine.com via: Ian Lurie

Nothing ruins a great website UI like people using it. At least, it often feels that way. You put in days or weeks building the interface, only to find that a vast majority of visitors abandon it partway through the process that it supports. Most of the time, visitors leave because they’ve hit a roadblock: a problem that lets them go no further. They typed their credit card number wrong or clicked the wrong link or mistyped a URL. And it’s not their fault.

What exactly is meant by defensive design? Image by Richard Winchell

A good design assumes that people make mistakes. A bad one leaves visitors stuck at a dead end because they mistyped one character. The best professionals account for this with smart, defensive design strategies (also known as contingency design).

Defensive Design Means…

I’m a simple guy. In the book Defensive Design for the Web, 37Signals defines defensive design as such: “Design for when things go wrong.”

Gets right to the point, doesn’t it? Defensive design anticipates both user and website error. Then, it tries to prevent those errors and provide help to get the user back on track. Defensive design for the Web usually focuses on the most common points of failure: forms, search, the address bar and server problems.

Defensive design:

• Employs validation to check for mistakes before they frustrate the user,
• Expands available options based on the user’s implied intent,
• Protects site visitors from server errors and broken links with informative messages and
• Assists the user before mistakes happen.

Defensive Design: Business Sense

If you want to grow your online business or just improve your blog, defensive design is one of the easiest upgrades — instead of trying to build audience, defensive design helps you better serve the audience you’ve got. The latter is far, far easier than the former.

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Six steps to hassle free client approval

‎"Be Upfront. Be Informative. Be United."

http://paulgalbraith.com/hassle-free-client-approval

Things just got interesting...

Facebook: Privatising the internet, one Poke at a time.

The world has been pretty slow to wake up to the power of Facebook and Google, web services with the power to make internet standards disappear faster than a Poke. But maybe people will sit up now. Mark Zuckerberg's embrace and extend attitude doesn't just encompass your data - but email protocols too. And there's very little you're going to be able to do about it.

At a typically oversold launch event yesterday, Zuckerberg complained about the "friction" generated by having to compose a simple email. You had to type a subject line in, he said, incorrectly, making people wonder if he'd ever used email himself. It's too formal, he concluded. The poor love - I'm surprised he hasn't thought about suing the developers of POP3 for emotional distress, as well as repetitive strain injury.

The Facebook plan is to integrate email and SMS into Facebook, into one great big inbox, which will be stored forever. And which will naturally drown people who are not on Facebook under a tide of real-time chaff - Web2.0rhea, as we call it here.

Read more @ http://bit.ly/cHYwF8

Article courtesy of Andrew Orlowski.

FIT/VAP Presents: DAVID CARSON: THE END OF PRINT

Fashion Institute of Technology /

Visiting Artist Program

Presents:

DAVID CARSON: THE END OF PRINT

Learn more about David Carson @

www.davidcarsondesign.com

Cross branding while crossing-platforms...

How To Build a Mobile Website... http://bit.ly/biAPmY

Content courtesy of the Good people @ Smashing magazine. http://bit.ly/cvNlJb

Over the past few years, mobile web usage has considerably increased to the point that web developers and designers can no longer afford to ignore it. In wealthy countries, the shift is being fueled by faster mobile broadband connections and cheaper data service. However, a large increase has also been seen in developing nations where people have skipped over buying PCs and gone straight to mobile.

Unfortunately, the mobile arena introduces a layer of complexity that can be difficult for developers to accommodate. Mobile development is more than cross-browser, it should be cross-platform. The vast number of mobile devices makes thorough testing a practical impossibility, leaving developers nostalgic for the days when they only had to support legacy browsers.

In addition to supporting different platforms, each device may use any number of mobile web browsers. For instance, an Android user could access your site using the native Android browser, or could have also installed Opera Mini or Firefox Mobile. It’s fine as long as the smartphone uses a progressive web browser (and it’s safe to say that most browsers are progressive nowadays), but it doesn’t have to.

The primary goal of mobile stylesheets is to alter the layout for a smaller display. First and foremost this means reducing multi-column layouts to single columns. Most mobile screens are vertical, so horizontal space becomes even more “expensive” and mobile layouts can rarely afford more than one column of content. Next, reduce clutter throughout the page by setting display: none; on any less important elements. Finally, save additional pixels by reducing margins and padding to create a tighter layout.

The mobile web reintroduces several issues that have been largely ignored in recent years. First, even with 4G networks, bandwidth becomes a serious issue for mobile consumers. Additionally, mobile devices have asignificantly reduced screen size, which presents screen real estate issues that have not existed since the days of projection monitors. Combine these issues with cross-platform compatibility problems, and it isn’t hard to see how mobile development is a lot like ‘stepping backwards in time’.

Loic Le Meur Re-introduces branding...

Building your own brand...

Wikipedia defines a "brand" as the identity of a specific product, service, or business[1][page needed]. A brand can take many forms, including a name, sign, symbol, color combination or slogan. The wordbrand began simply as a way to tell one person's cattle from another by means of a hot iron stamp. A legally protected brand name is called a trademark. The word brand has continued to evolve to encompass identity - it affects the personality of a product, company or service.

There are different forms of branding. Quick examples are:

Brand Awarenesss, Brand Promise, Global Brand, as well as Ambient Brand, Brand Identity, Visual Brand & Brand Parity

Build your own brand Season 1 Episode 1: Introduction

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Kii Media Group + Future of Web Design Conference

Kii Media Group + Future of Web Design Conference

Future of Web Design Conference 2010
November 15th - 17th 2010 • New World Stages • New York City.

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Kii Media Group + NY Xpo for Business

5th Annual New York XPO for Business 2010

October 20th 2010 • Javits Center • New York City.

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