July 2014
Close yet digitally unseen
Google Now recently gained the ability to search your email for hotel reservations and automatically suggest restaurants near where you are staying. Microsoft’s Cortana has integrated with Foursquare to do something similar. Both hold the promis…
Voicemail on future smartphone experiences
The last three years of smartphone progress can be described in one sentence: faster processors driving bigger screens with more pixels. For users, there is little real world functional difference between today’s flagship products and 2011 de…
Google Glass is a welcome experiment in bad user experience
Google Glass remains confined to a small niche of customers because the technology is unreliable, the features unappealing for most users and the price too high. In time, technological progress will solve issues of reliability and price, but f…
A model for nurturing ideas as the life blood of agencies
Ideas are the currency of all agencies, from user experience to graphic design. The efficiency with which an agency creates, applies and delivers those ideas to clients is what differentiates it from its competitors. An agency may invoice for an h…