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Future of Web Design 2007: Maximising Consumer Engagement Online

April 18th, 2007

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Maximising Consumer Engagement Online
William Rosen
Engagement - acitive state of focused attention during an exchange of value between consumer and business
Why does engagement matter to marketers?
- Frames the future of connectinos between consumers and brands
- It better defines effective comunication with customers
Begin by modeling consumer behaviour / experience
- What are their goals / process to achieve […]

Future of Web Design 2007: Introducing Adobe Apollo

April 18th, 2007

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Adobe Apollo
Mike Downey
Apollo allows developers to deploy rich web apps to the desktop through a runtime environment
Examples:
EBay Desktop
Adobe flex app
Still able to display the user-entered HTML within the flash app
Apollo uses webkit HTML rendering engine (same as Safari etc) integrated with the flash engine
Nice functionality
- search results kept in separate pane to the result you’re […]

Future of Web Design 2007: Designing for web apps

April 18th, 2007

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Designing for web apps
Ryan Singer (37 signals)
George Oates (flickr)
Denise Wilton (moo)
10 tips for better signup forms (Ryan Singer)
1) Making stuff up is hard - username and password
- easy questions first as it builds momentum
2) Rockstar2084 is taken… use AJAX to do live checking on usernames
3) Forgot password stuff etc. Design form with least amount of […]

Future of Web Design 2007: Finding your creative vein

April 18th, 2007

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Finding your creative vein
Brendan Dawes (magneticNorth)
Some of Brendan’s ideas for inspiration…
Reinhold Messner - Murdering the impossible (National Geographic article)
Big risk-taker: first man to climb everest without oxygen.
Most inspirational thing :it wasn’t about the mountains - not a naturalist - he’s interested in the interaction between the man and the mountain. Or something.
Shame - western, 1952. […]

Future of Web Design 2007

April 18th, 2007

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Apologies in advance - I’m about to post my shonky notes from each of the presentations at FOWD 2007 in London. They may/may not be useful but thoughts are welcome.

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