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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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.
In a little under two weeks, I’ll be flying the furthest I’ve ever flown in my life: to San Diego and Los Angeles, spending roughly a week or so in each. First I’ll be attending ETech , attempting to expand my mind with some wholesome thought food, and then I’ll be taking over a sofa [...]
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minor 9th has been powered by a number of different content management systems (CMSs) since it began – it’s been hand-coded, managed with blogger, greymatter and, for the last five years, movable type. All of these methods served me well, but because I can’t help tinkering, I decided to switch over to wordpress. It has [...]
I’m looking for some tools which would enable me to create visual representations of websites – a little like this one of minor9th.com, made with htmlgraph, but where each node represents a page within the site, and where it’s also possible to attach visitor numbers to the pages in question and display the nodes proportionally. [...]
Subject to getting the time off work approved, I’m going to be attending the first European Future of Web Design conference on April 18th. Some pretty interesting people will be sharing pearls of webby wisdom. A rethink of this shabby old blog thing may follow. Anyone else planning on going?
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