Objects & processes. Liberating design.
First off, I’d like to start by saying that we are not a design company but have individuals who have undoubted talent in designing stuff. Me, I have not a creative design bone in my body! What prompted this post was a recent encounter with a client’s design company who were “re-designing” some element of [...]
A curated web experience
For some years innovative organisations and software houses have been striving to produce a neater, more contextualised web experience only to find their efforts labelled as “invasive” or “privacy breaching”. As a result terms such as behavioural targeting and personalized web are now tarnished – forever. I am fighting back. From now on I am [...]
Another 2011 prediction blog post
This is the time of year that everyone and their dog seems to take out the crystal ball out and make sweeping predictions for 2011. Jumping on the bandwagon of making sweeping predictions sounds like a bit of fun, if not taken too seriously so here’s my attempt to list some dead certs that I [...]
Rework? We don’t need Rework
I’ve just finished reading Rework as it had been mooted as suggested reading. It sounds trite, but we could have written that book 10 years ago. Amazing! It’s exactly how we have been running the company – almost to the letter, and from day one. Makes you feel quite proud. Related articles Rework by Jason [...]
The power of iterative design
I recently began my seventh year at Connected. In that time I’ve worked on more projects I can remember, many of them redesigns of existing websites. I love building a new site from scratch, it allows me to create a structure that makes sense to us and also gives me the chance to flex my [...]
Content reductionism in the web world
Less really is more Attention span online is really short Keep it simple stupid One fact beats a thousand opinions Useful Information The percentage split of time spent reading/browsing versus doing stuff is dropping as consumers are now comfortable buying, organising and completing transactions online. This means the traditional drive to generate marketing-led content has [...]
Information and applications, a brand opportunity
We are moving ever more to a world dominated by pure information and the traditional role of brands is having to evolve, whilst I’m not suggesting that the world of information packs, leaflets and brochures is dead what we are starting to find is that they play a lesser role in the minds of consumers. [...]
It’s all coming together… on Twitter
For years, Twitter users have been split between those who predominantly tweet directly through the website and those who choose to use third party applications. As I currently sit amongst the latter group opting to use Tweetie on Mac and Twitter (formally part of the Tweetie app family) on the iPhone, I can only give my opinion on why people choose to do shy away from the web interface.
Intelligent browsing is here
We are starting to see the beginnings of intelligent browsers that are centred around the needs of people and not companies. Apple have released Safari 5.0 and it has a really neat [READER] button at the end of the address bar that quite cleverly turns a advert-loaded web page into a lovely, clean browsing experience. [...]
Email is dead?
Radical? Not really, but communication is changing and that does mean the use of email as the defacto communication medium is coming to an end. Ask anyone under the age of 21 how they communicate and they’ll mention Text, Facebook and MSN but hardly ever mention email. To the Generation Y population email is just [...]
