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Some mobile design resources

Ben Green — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:02:56 +0000

Interesting to note that most all of the visual design goodness in Mobile Awesomeness is iPhone.

Mobile Banking Customer Experience

Ben Green — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:52:09 +0000

Jodie and I had a short presentation at a day-long conference organised by Retail Banking Review: Customer Experience Excellence in Financial Services.

We talked about mobile, as did a lot of the attendees in the round table discussions that took place. The main questions were around which platform to focus on, which features and functionality to target and how the experience differs from the web experiences being delivered.

One of the strong impressions I got was the regulatory environment is a present concern for many in the industry, and that understanding how that impacts efforts to focus more on the customer and use emerging technologies to improve the customer experience.

Symplicit Mobile Banking Customer Experience June 2009 V1.0

View more documents from Jodie Moule.

Monty Hamilton was a compelling speaker on a panel about Social Communities, and James Gardner gave a good presentation around using emergence to innovate at Lloyds TSB.

Reach: animated short from Luke Randall

Ben Green — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:58:48 +0000

via Crikey

Obsessionism plays databall

Ben Green — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:39:51 +0000

Obsessionism has three categories:

NBA
Statistics
Personal Obsessions

And it comes out like this:

The above is from NBA Team Heat Maps [Current Obsessions]

I set out with these questions in mind and developed a graph to see if I could find something. Each graph shows who was coaching the team that year, who were the top offensive players on the team, and by how many possessions each team won or lost over a 5 year period.

100 Design Book Covers

Ben Green — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 11:50:13 +0000

100 Design Book Covers

Every morning I check Manystuff

Ben Green — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 07:59:37 +0000

Well, now I do anyways. Loads of art and graphic design pics and links like the above from http://marcbally.ch/.

http://www.manystuff.org/

Is it going to rain?

Ben Green — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 20:01:24 +0000

http://goingtorain.com/

Time Best Invention #6: Global Seed Vault

Ben Green — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 00:56:43 +0000

Almost every nation keeps collections of native seeds so local crops can be replanted in case of an agricultural disaster. The Global Seed Vault, opened this year on the far-northern Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, is a backup for the backups. It’s badly needed â€” as many as half the seed banks in developing countries are at risk from natural disasters or general instability. The vault can hold up to 4.5 million samples, which will be kept dry at about 0Â°F (-18Â°C). Even if the facility loses power, the Arctic climate should keep the seeds viable for thousands of years.

Time’s Best Inventions of 08 : Global Seed Vault

Chrome’s itsy bitsy spiders

Ben Green — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 23:10:39 +0000

ReadWriteWeb says:

An interesting theory we heard recently is that Google will use Chrome to index the password protected Web – a.k.a. the ‘dark web’.

Most web apps are password-protected and so there’s no way for a normal search engine to index the data – even data that’s generalized and doesn’t identify individual users. But with a full-fledged browser to complement its search engine, Google now theoretically has the means to index this previously inaccessible data.

Interesting that Flock browser already does this, and saves the data to an offline cache on the local machine, presumably to support all the social integration / aggregation features they’ve got going on.

I guess that Flock keep a little data for themselves too, and that is the reason for the FAQ question: How do I disable collection of anonymous usage metrics?

take-g toy’s exhibition

Ben Green — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:52:48 +0000

If that’s not cute, i’m a little back-seat-doggy-driver.