Visit any karaoke studio and you’ll find a notebook full of songs, listed alphabetically by title or artist. While this architecture is useful for searching, it’s nearly useless for browsing, which is the prime behavior pattern for patrons. Looking laterally, the online music industry has quickly adapted this construct, offering social tagging, categorization, and recommendations. [...]
Tags: behavior, data, interaction
Consumers today are faced with information overload, to the extreme. The rapid expansion of the internet society is the main cause of this phenomenon. There are far too many options in every decision we make, so we must rely on gut feelings, recommendations, stereotypes, and context clues. What this means as a designer, is you [...]
Tags: behavior, data, interaction
I stumbled upon a few new smartphone apps: GetGlue allows users to check-in to their favorite movies, shows, books, and music and see what friends are enjoying, add comments and ratings, and receive personalized recommendations. Avoidr uses the Foursquare API to help you avoid exes and former friends. And Assisted Serendipity monitors guy/girl ratios at [...]
Tags: behavior, data, Improvements, innovation, interaction, metrics, mobile
My friend’s car has a neat fancy digital readout in the center of her speedometer. I asked her about it, and she said it tracks gas mileage. It even jumps up and down while driving based upon your habits, encouraging safe, efficient speed and acceleration. In what ways can we use this practice to influence [...]
Tags: behavior, context, interaction, metrics
Foursquare has the right idea: bring social gaming behaviors into physical commerce. The service lets you “check-in” to your favorite locales to tell your friends and earn badges, virtual achievements. If you’re the most frequent visitor, you may be named mayor and receive exclusive perks from the business. One thing the service lacks is metrics: [...]
