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New Studio Warming Party
We’re planning to have a small party next month on April 1st, 2010. If you’re in the Portland, Oregon area, be sure to RSVP on our site.
We swear… this isn’t an April Fool’s joke! ;-)
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Episode 4: The hiring process
We just published a new entry to our podcast. In this episode we discuss our recent UX Designer hiring process. Enjoy!
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Portland's iPhone application
- 6 Feb 2010
- Robby Russell says... Check out this link
2 comments Last comment by Jude
City of Portland Citizen Reports
The City of Portland has released a free iPhone application that allows people to report problems with any of the city infrastructures. This means that if you’re walking down the street and notice a pot hole, graffiti, knocked over trees, street signs, etc… you can stop, take a photo, and report it right there.
Look forward to hearing how well this works out for the city. Would be interested in knowing if they’ll be opening up the data collected as well.
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Conversion Rate Optimisation Case Study
While I generally enjoy the articles on Web Design from Scratch, I found a problem in this article about a/b testing. Take the following excerpt…
“We will look at the test results over the coming weeks to see if our prediction is correct, and use these results to formulate possible follow-on tests to further increase conversion rate.”’
“Results of the test will be posted here once we can see a clear winner.”
The author then invites the audience to check out the new design, which immediately left me wondering if this might skew the results.
“In the meantime, check out Rankmill.com, and start sharing your own Top Lists.”
It’s my prediction that Rankmill.com will see an increase in traffic from people that might not be their typical audience. This new wave of visitors will be coming through via this article, RSS feeds, twitter posts, and other referring sites. Once they get to the site, I predict that they’ll either…
a) See the old design and reload the page to see if the new design shows up. When it doesn’t, they’ll leave the site (increased bounce rates with the old design)
b) See the new design and experiment with the new UI for a bitIf my prediction is correct, might an upswing in new traffic (from people who know about the test) result in conclusions that the new design is more effective? I worry that the experiment is now contaminated and would be skeptical of any results that didn’t properly account for this.
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Experiment: Twitter Usability
It’s always fascinating to watch people try to interact with tools for that time, especially those that we take use on a regular basis.
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Apple Courts Publishers, While Kindle Adds Apps
As a Kindle owner (and raving fan), I’m curious what Amazon’s strategy is with this move. I purchased the Kindle for what it does well, which is allow me to read books. Hopefully they’ll not dilute the experience of picking up the kindle, turning it on, seeing my recently viewed books, and start reading.
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EightShapes Unify
We’ve been using this framework for Adobe InDesign to package up our strategy-related client deliverables.
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Planet Argon Podcast
We recently started a new podcast that covers various topics related to the projects that they work on. We invite you to check it out.
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Watch the video
I gave a talk titled, “Launching projects with Ruby on Rails” in London this last summer. They’ve recently posted the video online to watch.
