http://www.montparnas.com/articles Articles on effective experience design, product strategy, and usability. Wed, 14 Jul 2010 15:26:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I loved this presentation by Paul Adams of the Google UX team. He explores designing for real social networks by examining relationships, influence, identity and privacy. The entire presentation is extremely well done, and the discussion around relationships and our online versus offline social network truly illuminates important factors in social ... http://www.montparnas.com/articles/the-real-life-social-network/ In "Fusing Content Strategy with Design", David Gillis gives a very good summary of content strategy and its interplay with the overall user experience strategy and information architecture. The leading advocate for the field, Kristina Halvorson defines the field as such: Content strategy plans for the creation, publication, and governance of ... http://www.montparnas.com/articles/content-strategy-and-ux-design/ Consumer behavior has certainly changed in recent times, and the way we interact with brands in increasingly becoming more intimate and familiar. I'm sure a few years ago we would not have thought that we would be "friends" with (or fans receiving daily updates from) our favorite soda or restaurant. The ... http://www.montparnas.com/articles/social-brands-and-people/ Growing a vast customer base for an online product is a complex process that encompasses marketing, product development, and luck. However, it is possible to stack the odds in your favor and to make the best of your marketing dollars by creating a product experience that fosters the organic growth ... http://www.montparnas.com/articles/fueling-the-organic-growth-cycle-for-web-products/ To much fanfare and critical acclaim, TiVo announced last week its new Premiere DVR that features a ground-breaking user interface. I'm very happy to say that we had the privilege to work alongside TiVo's talented design team to define and design the novel user experience that extends TiVo's high interaction ... http://www.montparnas.com/articles/montparnas-helps-design-tivos-revolutionary-ui/ Watching the winter Olympics this year, I took note of the great use of information overlays by NBC. Overall I have been impressed with their sparing use of graphics to convey the critical information. I hope that this simple elegant design will be the standard rather than the exception in ... http://www.montparnas.com/articles/nbc-winter-olympics-information-displays/ Nokia has started circulating specifications and previews of its new Symbian^4 OS interface and interaction design (via Symbian.org). Some notable improvements include: New interface layout and interaction structure (see diagrams below) Consistent look and feel across all applications Contextual menus providing quicker access to common actions Customizable home screen New Interaction Models in Symbian^4 Below are ... http://www.montparnas.com/articles/preview-of-nokias-new-symbian-4-os/ [caption id="attachment_1044" align="aligncenter" width="596" caption="iPhone's Big Problem (created on pixton.com)"][/caption] http://www.montparnas.com/articles/iphones-one-big-problem/ I had the opportunity to speak with Netvibes' CEO, Freddy Mini, as a follow-up to our original article on the company's RSS reader. In our interview, we mainly discussed the strategy and vision for the product—who are the customer segments, how Netvibes meets their needs, where the product has been ... http://www.montparnas.com/articles/interview-with-netvibes-ceo-freddy-mini/ Today is World Usability Day. Don't forget to get involved and see the events happening near you. For Boston, there are a series of events at South Station, titled "Connecting the Dots" In San Francisco, check out: Design Matters: An Open House to Celebrate World Usability Day And of course, please do comment/share ... http://www.montparnas.com/articles/designing-for-a-sustainable-world-world-usability-today/