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Data Monday: App Store Sizes

Functioning Form: Interface Design -- In October, I posted numbers on the general size and sales trends of mobile app stores. For this month, here's a wider look at mobile and TV app stores sizes.Apple App Store: 100,000 apps available (source)Nokia Ovi Store: 20,000 "titles" available. These are not all apps. In fact, the vast majority are multimedia content. (source)Android Market: 12,000 apps available (source)Blackberry App World:...     01:22
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Trackbacks vs. Retweets

Functioning Form: Interface Design -- Over the past year or so, I've noticed an interesting trend here on Functioning Form that I believe is happening on many other blog and content sites across the Web. Trackbacks are steadily being overtaken by retweets. Let me explain what that means.If I publish an article on my blog that people find interesting, some portion of them may want to share it with others publicly or privately. Sharing ...     11-20
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Android User Experience: When Open & Closed Collide

Functioning Form: Interface Design -- As Google's Android operating system appears on more devices, more companies are extending the platform to develop custom user interfaces for their products. Though Google freely distributes Android and allows anyone to adapt its open-source components, they maintain control of the services (applications) they distribute with Android like Maps, GMail, Google Voice, and more. "This can lead to main...     11-19
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Audio & Articles: The Impact of Social Models

Functioning Form: Interface Design -- In my The Impact of Social Models talk at IDEA09 in Toronto, I presented an overview of the different ways social relationships are modeled in online software and examined if these distinct approaches resulted in different online behavior. Recently, Boxes and Arrows released audio recordings from the conference and I wrote a few articles on the themes I covered in my talk. Here's a compilation of ...     11-17
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Data Monday: Video Game Console Market

Functioning Form: Interface Design -- When we teach our Influencing Strategy by Design course, Tom Chi and I ask our students to visualize the video game console market using data from 2007 and early 2008. At that time:In 2008 the video game industry had sales of $21.33 billion. Hardware was $7.81 billion and software was $10.96 billion. (source)This was up 19% over 2007 (which saw a 43% increase over 2006).(source)In 2007 & 2008, the...     11-16
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Web Form Design in PayPal Interface Guide

Functioning Form: Interface Design -- PayPal's open payments platform was recently made available to third-party developers. As part of the developer information and tools, PayPal released an Interface Design Guide that includes UI recommendations for services being launched on PayPal X and design principles to help developers create a good user interface. Several principles from Web Form Design are included in the guide:PayPal X Inte...     11-13
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Email Entry in Web Forms

Functioning Form: Interface Design -- Many online transactions (such as registration or checkout) rely on email communication to verify user identity and intent or to establish ongoing customer dialog. So it's no wonder companies and organizations care a lot about valid email addresses in Web forms. Get the wrong email address and potential customers can't be confirmed or contacted.The most common cause of unintentional email input er...     11-12
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Integration Across Networked Devices

Functioning Form: Interface Design -- As the number of networked consumer devices continues to grow, it's increasingly common for people to own and use multiple devices like game consoles, smart phones, media players, networked TVs, netbooks and tablets - all connected (read/write) to the Internet. So it's no surprise that many companies and organizations are developing specific strategies to address this new digital reality. Here's a...     11-11
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Real Relationships Drive Contribution

Functioning Form: Interface Design -- In social software, attention drives contribution - to a point. An increase in the amount of visible attention (quantity of explicit social relationships or activities) people receive helps drive contribution. More views of a video on YouTube encourages further uploads. More followers on Twitter encourages more updates. But this increase in production is likely to plateau.The issue may be the kind...     11-10
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Data Monday: Operating System Market Share

Functioning Form: Interface Design -- Windows 7 was released at the end of October 2009 so an overview of operating system market share seems in order.PC Operating SystemsIn September 2009, Mac platforms had 5.12%, Windows had 92.77%, and Linux had 0.95% of operating system market share. (source)Between October and September, Windows dropped 0.25 percentage points (from 92.77% to 92.52%), Mac OS climbed up a sizeable 0.15 percentage p...     11-09
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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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Multiple Application Access Points

Functioning Form: Interface Design -- Writing up how the iPhone and Android operating systems handle application access & management differently got me thinking about a presentation on the Windows 7 design process at MIX09. In it, designer Stephan Hoefnagel showed the multiple ways people experience Microsoft Outlook on the Windows Vista desktop:"There are actually eight icons for Outlook on the Windows Vista desktop and most of them ...     10-30
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App Interface Models in iPhone and Android

Functioning Form: Interface Design -- The iPhone & Android operating systems handle application access & management differently. Does either approach lead to more app customization?Apple’s iPhone operating system only has one user interface control for accessing applications. Apps are represented on one of several potential home screens as 57x57 pixel icons. To run an application, you simply tap the icon. The application you selected ...     10-29
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Data in the Design

Functioning Form: Interface Design -- Though the debate about metrics-driven design continues, it’s becoming increasingly hard to do large-scale digital product design without integrating an understanding of data.Data is an inevitable result of our world going digital. As books, music, movies, maps, and more become bits, they can be indexed, modeled, mined, analyzed, and queried. The results of these operations quickly create mountain...     10-27
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Data Monday: Digital Video

Functioning Form: Interface Design -- The market for digital video continues to expand. Some of the latest numbers:YouTube is serving well over a billion views a day globally. (source)Of the 115 million estimated households in America, 9.6% now subscribe to Netflix. (source)42% of Netflix subscribers streamed at least 15 minutes of one TV episode or movie during the third quarter of 2009. That is a 145% increase compared to last year....     10-26
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Death to Lorem Ipsum

Functioning Form: Interface Design -- I've long believed that real data delivers really effective design. Using actual content, information, and activity throughout the design process to inform and guide decisions results in product designs that scale well and communicate effectively. This philosophy could be thought of as "death to lorem ipsum". Lorem Ipsum, in case you are wondering, is dummy text originally used in the print indust...     10-22
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