KonzeptioNerd

Remember deep pages

Netbank has been in the newsletters with its relaunch the “largely avoids scrolling”.
Now, this claim is not quite true to the point: deep, content-heavy pages do scroll - and why shouldn’t they? (See e.g. Boxes and Arrows: Blasting the Myth of the Fold).
There are more severe blunders on the Netbank site, though. Linked and unlinked [...]

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Fun with interfaces

Via Adverblog: A Spanish advert for donating blood pulls the interface into the diegetic level of the video. Very smartly and effectively done: The progress bar doubling as vial suggests that giving blood is really as easy, smooth and everday as starting a video stream.
Playing with the interface is a proprietary technique of digital [...]

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To Blog or Not To Blog

Bloggers 0 - Journalists n/a
I was at Mainz university a little while ago, to talk to a group of journalism students about the web 2.0 and the traditional information media.
I was prepared to talk about readers who have grown accustomed to managing their own media and information, to write back, to look for context and [...]

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Featureitis

Dan Saffer at adaptive path blog has an excellent (though lengthy) comment on the feature overload debate:
[...D]on’t play in the features game at all. Because let’s face it: most features are commodities that will likely be replicated eventually. Instead, it is about the connection between the features that will create both product loyalty and product [...]

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Why I cannot seem to Twitter

I’m currently at Community Summit 2007 in Wiesbaden. Hope to blog a coherent summary later. If you can’t wait, check out the Community Summit eventblog where the organizers summarize the presentations. They also have a Twitter Panel for brief, fast comments.
Twitter is acutally the perfect tool for conference-blogging: it favors sequentiality even more than the [...]

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Excellent URL structure

Amazon is probably not best known for their human readable URLs. They do, however, have a consistent URL structure (at least across their .com .de and .co.uk domains).
Today, I came across Dan Saffer’s Designing for Interaction in a blog that links to Amazon’s .com-site (with an affiliate code, I think). I don’t want to order [...]

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