Very pretty proud about this. My session is on User-Centered design at an agency. Sharing what I’ve learned over the years on embedding UX as a core discipline in the planning and production process.
Part of Adobe Community Out Reach program, Adobe Peapods is the end result of a collaboration between Adobe, Goodby, the Black Eye Peas and Blitz.
Visit the site and create your own flower. You can import pictures from Facebook or use what we’ve provided.
A Game trailer which acts and looks like a real movie trailer is nothing new. Heck we’ve been subjected to sub-par game-inspired movies for a while now. But with the advent of better storytelling and the judicious use of CGI (which has greatly improved), games themselves are fast catching up to their feature cousins.
The Halo 3 ODST trailer should dispel any myth that games today are not as powerful an emotional construct as any movie being made.
Whether government 2.0 or just plain being smart within the context of social media here is a great add from the Obama administration again on Healthcare debate on linkedin. It’s brilliant on many levels. First by creating a specific message that will resonate with business owners ( an important audience in the ongoing debate), and placing it on a niche social media site where the audience in question indexes really high.
If you’re looking at creating a best-of-breed social media strategy whose goal is to create momentum around a platform, look no further than what the Obama administration continues to do.
Did you think I would let this blog go uncared for more than a few months. A recent project for a large software company in Seattle had me thinking about social media and government. This is why the Obama’s administration latest “widget” (I use the term loosely” is an excellent example of what I (and others I am sure) call Crowd Building using Twitter. That is the idea of building a vocal and pronounced social majority when it comes to a specific issue and/or cause.
What if someone decided to publish Wikipedia’s featured articles on dead trees? What would that collection look like? Well such is the question graphic artist Rob Matthews decided to answer in his portfolio.
The result is indicative of the value that digital has brought to the knowledge domain. I believe that was Rob’s very point.
Just when you thought smart advertising had become an oxymoron Showtime and their media agency OMD sign a deal with advertising deal with Amazon, giving them banners on amazon.com and wait for this, the ability to offer up a free book download on the Kindle.
There certainly has been an explosion of marketing campaigns this year which have used twitter as a key messaging point.
Here are some links I’ve retweeted on twitter that were interesting or insightful.
Fast Company on how the number of friends is an indicator of behavior
http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/kit-eaton/technomix/facebook-does-s…Great little rivalry and media placement of this BMW outdoor ad
http://ow.ly/2L9nDesign portal dedicated to showcasing spartan and clean sites
http://www.minimalsites.com/Forbes ask Big Spaceship founder Michael Lebowitz to select his top 5 campaigns. And they are:
http://post.ly/GQbFor the information architects out there, some info porn
http://ow.ly/2ffw
That’s all for today
Michael Lebowitz is the founder and ceo of Big Spaceship, and the mind behind qapture.net. He was kind enough to take part in a little back and forth focusing on the Big Spaceship’s most recent release.