Archive for the 'innovation' Category

The genius of Amazon’s Kindle e-book

Apart from the nice looking e-ink display and the apprently correct design (though not awesome, the keyboard is really tacky) what really is genius in Amazon’s Kindle resides in this discreet excerpt from Amazon’s sale pitch:
Unlike WiFi, you don’t have to find a hotspot. Amazon pays for Kindle’s wireless connectivity so you will never see [...]

Digital music: Radiohead’s initiative

Digital media distribution is a great challenge, and Radiohead came these days with a pretty good idea: you can buy here the download version of their upcoming album at the price you want.
Good UXP can be build upon such an approach, but it is not exactly what a Sony-BMG told before the court in Duluth [...]

User experience is story telling.

Everybody is talking about experience, or user experience, and, really, this is where we go.
Let’s make a simple analogy with the real world: we know that different buildings serving the same purpose, may (hopefully) offer various architectural experiences. Le Louvre doesn’t offer the same experience to its visitors than the Guggenheim Museum. Both are museums, [...]

Microsoft Surface

Good news! With Surface, Microsoft enters the domain of TUI (Tangible User Interface).
I’ll soon write about how TUI are going to change the way we interact with machines and web services. It really indicates that machines are coming closer to our physical world, instead of pushing us into virtuality.
More on this subject very soon.