ItsDevelopmental - content + technology + people

Presentation: seductive user interface changes

H/T to Richard Sedley.

The Subtle Art of Seduction

View more presentations from Stephen Anderson.

Visual search with Google Goggles

H/T Nick Burcher

Human nature and design

Last week I went to the Design for Persuasion conference in Belgium. One of the speakers - I think it was a colleague of BJ Fogg - pointed out something very obvious which is important in design. That is that the realities of human nature are this:

• We are lazy so like to take the path of least resistance
• We are pack animals so are social creatures
• We are creatures of habit - we like routines

So, always remember these factors when designing web pages. 

Design for Persuasion 2010 - interviews with four speakers

Design for Persuasion 2010 - interviews with four speakers

Here are the four interviews I did at this year's Design for Persuasion conference in Ghent, Belgium.

Thanks to BJ Fogg, Richard Sedley, Dan Lockton and Laura Hudson for taking time out to talk to me and my iphone.

Below are the players so you can listen here or please follow the link to get hear them on Audio Boo. I also compiled a Twitter list of the speakers from the conference.

I'll write some posts on what I learned very soon.

BJ Fogg talks habits in persuasion

Richard Sedley on game mechanics and persuasion

Dan Lockton on persuasive design 

Laura Hudson Talks FrontlineSMS, innovation and knowing your user

 

Mention in the Interaction Designer Daily on paper.li

Was well chuffed to be mentioned in today's issue of the Interaction Designer Daily (see the lovely arrow below). Reason I am chuffed is that I am not an interaction designer so to be mentioned is great - I like to think I am sharing useful links into one of the areas I am interested in.

Gaining some kind of recognition by peers can be hard when you have your finger in lots of pies - for me they are in editorial content, marketing content, user experience, design, interaction and engagement plus psychology of the social web.

PS for those who have not seen paper.li go take a look - a very neat way of publishing your links.

Facebook: 7 Highly Effective Habits

via www.spring.org.uk

A good read on the psychology behind Facebook usage - what you waiting for . . . go friend some attractive people

Video: Seth Godin - This is broken

Seth Godin at Gel 2006 from Gel Conference on Vimeo.

Social objects and the Internet of things

The Future of Social Objects

Interesting post on where technology is taking us.

Video: screen innovation

Living and working without email

Luis Suarez has a dream, and it’s one that many of us with our overloaded inboxes could well buy in to — a world without e-mail.

via mashable.com

Just testing out the Blog it feature on Typepad