If you haven’t seen the “Life in a Day” trailer, check it out, it’s an interesting way to use social media to get a snapshot of the human experience. On July 24, 2010, thousands of people around the world uploaded videos of their lives to YouTube to take part in Life in a Day, a ...

If you’re not familiar with Flipboard, it’s a social magazine application for the iPad. Flipboard takes content from popular websites or your own RSS newsfeeds and presents them in a graphical “magazine” format. Although Flipboard allows users several news services formatted for the app, the real power comes when you attach your Google Reader or ...

Windows is getting a major user experience facelift with the upcoming release of Windows 8. Microsoft is moving to a flexible design grid, with variable content areas that they are calling “piles” (no the sexiest name, but oh well). The underpinnings seem to be HTML 5, which allows developers to quickly integrate their apps into ...

When building interactive websites or applications, it’s important to create robust user interfaces before starting the design process. You need to solve any interaction or navigation problems before they crop up in the design phase, or both you and your project will suffer. In the past, I’ve either hand-sketched the wireframes or used software such ...

With millions of people connecting through social media, advertisers and marketers are hustling to get in on the action. In the past year we’ve seen many companies and brands attempt to step into this new world only to fail miserably. After analyzing many marketing flops on Twitter, the underlying issues are very apparent. To be ...