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UI Pattern: Unified Settings & Tutorial

Functioning Form: Interface Design -- This design pattern is a great example of using an ordinary user interface control as a learning opportunity for users. While Apple's Magic Mouse control panel contains the kind of standard checkboxes, buttons, and sliders you might expect in a settings panel, it also features clear and concise videos outlining the key functions of the mouse.Simply mouse over the label or control you are intereste...     11-06
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Who Made the IPod Killer? Apple Did.

Functioning Form: Interface Design -- There's been no shortage of digital media players that aimed for "iPod killer" status: Samsung's P3, Microsoft's Zune, Sony's X-series Walkman, Creative, Sandisk, and so on. But with over 220 million sold, Apple's iPod still has a 73.8% marketshare of digital music players. So while a lot of different companies have tried to "kill" the iPod -none have succeeded.But in the second quarter of 2009, t...     11-05
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More Attention, More Contribution -To a Point

Functioning Form: Interface Design -- Regardless of how social relationships are modeled in online software (be it community, group, 2-way/symmetrical, or 1-way asymmetrical models) more attention seems to result in increased contribution -to a point.To illustrate, when an average Twitter user gets to 1,000 followers, they move from 3 daily updates to 6. That number rises to 10 average daily updates with 1,750 followers (source). Conv...     11-05
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Mobile First

Functioning Form: Interface Design -- More often than not, the mobile experience for a Web application or site is designed and built after the PC version is complete. Here's three reasons why Web applications should be designed for mobile first instead.1. Mobile is exploding Though the Web has been accessible on mobile devices for years, today's smart phones are driving huge use of networked applications and Web content. Consider that...     11-04
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Data Monday: Mobile Social Networking

Functioning Form: Interface Design -- In her keynote on Internet Trends (PDF), Mary Meeker forecast that next generation social networking mobile platforms will drive unprecedented change in communications and commerce. The current growth of mobile social networking seems to support her thesis.The second-most popular Web activity for mobile users to engage in on a daily basis is accessing a "social networking site or blog." Last Janua...     11-02
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