Using IoT and Microservices with SAP’s YaaS new platform
SAP recently launched a SaaS product called Hybris as a Service (YaaS), and Isobar—where I currently work—was invited to participate in a hackathon to explore its potential.
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How animation and motion are informing experience design – SXSW insights
Digital experiences are increasingly using animation to inform, engage, and delight users. At SXSW, I attended two sessions that explored how Disney’s classic 12 Principles of Animation can be applied to modern experience design. Back in the 1930s, Disney animators asked a simple but profound question: What makes animation good? To answer it, they studied animals in zoos and…
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Psychological Architectures for Persuasive Tech — SXSW Workshop Insights
At SXSW, I attended an engaging workshop titled “Psychological Architectures for Persuasive Tech.” The session explored key concepts of persuasion and influence, with the goal of helping people build lasting habits. The presenter, Brian Cugelman, Ph.D., introduced his Interactive Influence Model, a framework inspired by Robert Cialdini’s classic book Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion. What stood out was how Cugelman applied communication…
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Hackathon: Creating a More Playful and Connected Office with Gestures
During a hackathon, my team decided to tackle this problem: how could we bring back a sense of playful connection across the office?
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My experiences with Mozilla’s FireFoxOS
Firefox OS has a grand ideal it is pursuing: to deliver an open sourced operating system powered by the web developer community. Mozilla is trying to promote and expand the scope of HTML5 and other open web technologies on mobile devices. Generally speaking, ideals or principles are wonderful because they push work to aim for…
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Using open card sorting to refine web navigation
As a ux design consultant, I get assigned design projects with different capabilities. My current client, a leading legal research company, wanted to test whether the language used in site’s information architecture resonates. So we ran an open card sort this week. It was great. I facilitated 12 interviews with stakeholders. Here a picture of the…
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Building My First Android App: Get Logo
As part of my goal to create more mobile apps, I built a simple Android app called Get Logo. The app’s purpose is straightforward: it downloads an image from the web. My goal wasn’t to create a polished product but to learn the fundamentals of making network requests, fetching remote objects, and manage multiple threads. Back…
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Quiet Engine Of The South African Economy
eCommerce accounts for 2% of South Africa’s economy. That figure includes infrastructure, access, and the consumption of products and services. Also, the eCommerce is growing at a rate of 30% and is expected to accelerate in the coming years.
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Starting app development to meet new usage behavior mobile
Last year, I designed a cross-platform mobile app experience for an enterprise client. The project was complex—the client had three brands and four apps each (iOS, Android, Windows Phone 7, and BlackBerry). It was a lot of work. To design those experiences, I took a hands-on approach: I downloaded the relevant SDKs and experimented with…
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The “Smart” Water Fountain That Confused Everyone
On a flight into New York’s LaGuardia Airport, I came across a water fountain unlike any I’d seen before. It had no buttons. At first, I thought it was broken. Where’s the button? I wondered. The only thing visible was a pair of small holes. I waved my hand in front of them, and to…