Image via Wikipedia  Jane McGonigal lives at http://www.avantgame.com/ and blogs at http://avantgame.blogspot.com/  We should start making “real worldâ€, more like a game. The term she coined for this is “Reality UX† 1997 Movie – The Game, staring Michael Douglas  Consumer Recreation Service, their moto is “Make your life … funâ€. A [...]
Image via Wikipedia  Audrey Chen lives behind the http://www.thedailyshow.com/  The Story of The Daily Show website Spring 2007 Writers strike rumors, Viacom started suing YouTube uploaders, etc. Old clips were in an archive that was designed as a stand-alone application, even though it was a web page.  The scale of The Daily Show [...]
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Image by sachman75 via Flickr  Scott Griffith is CEO of ZipCar – http://www.zipcar.com  They record videos since it’s easier to explain to new users.  Confluences of trends that they have to think about when designing a service  Gas prices Education members about Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)  Urban Living More [...]
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Somehow I can’t make a really good notes from Neo-futurists presentation, so here’s one of the short videos from them, which is still really enjoyable:
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Image via Wikipedia  Jensen Harris lives at http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/  The story of the Office  Conventional wisdom said that the Office is good enough. Asking real people told different story, which was that the user interface was failing users.  Symptoms they noticed: They added new features, but hardly anyone found them Office was [...]