As Facebook forces all individual profile users to have a Timeline from this Thursday (22ndDec 2011), we take a look at this new feature and ask what it means for businesses and their Like Pages. The timeline feature is your entire Facebook history from the date that you joined in reverse chronological order. What’s included will be determined by what you posted and how many… Read more…
Can we use social media to predict what will be the best selling toy of Christmas 2011? It’s no surprise that Christmas time is big business for toy manufacturers and retailers. In-demand Christmas toys have resulted in parents queuing up all-night outside shops to secure the likes of Teletubbies, Furbies and Buzz Lightyears. It’s no surprise then, that retailers often use forecasting techniques to predict… Read more…
This is my final post in the series about UX Brighton 2011 and is an overview of the last two talks which both looked at different aspects of the future of design Giles Colborne started his talk on how distraction affects design by accusing designers of killing their users. His evidence of this was the recent Blackberry outage which led to a big drop in… Read more…
This is my third post in the series about UX Brighton 2011 and is an overview of three talks ranging from age discrimination to how to justify investment in design and how to encourage large businesses to think more creatively. After lunch Simon Johnson spoke about the aging question, dignity through design, which highlighted not only the short-sightedness in overlooking user testing older people when… Read more…
Last week I attended UX Brighton 2011. After the success of their first conference last year the UX Brighton team had a lot to live up to. Fortunately this year’s conference was even bigger and better than UX Brighton 2010. I’ve split my thoughts on the conference into a series of four blog posts starting off with the first talk of the conference by Professor… Read more…
