Archives for January, 2009

Web Directions NorthPosted on January 28, 2009

The Molt:n Digital team are heading to Denver for the Web Directions North conference, and man, am I excited.
There are some brilliant presenters so I’m looking forward to the talks… there seems to be a big focus on mobile web so I’m hoping someone there will be able to fix my iphone so it [...]

Tags: Conferences

Fakey McFakester and their fake fake campaignsPosted on January 19, 2009

Seriously, who is advising companies about their digital strategy at the moment? Today’s news has left me cranky as 3 separate articles on fake campaigns that have hit the news.

The first is a bit of a stupid one as the SMH on the weekend had a front page puff piece on some chick who [...]

Tags: Marketing, dishonesty in advertising, social networking, transparency

Vanity search on steroidsPosted on January 14, 2009

We’ve all googled ourselves to see what comes up. If you haven’t, you’re either much less vain than me or probably not really into the whole internet thing.
CVGadget is like googling yourself but with steroids.
You not only get the results in the regular Google search, but it also aggregates results from Google Images, [...]

Tags: Cool websites

When your sponsors affect your customer experiencePosted on January 13, 2009

You would think that concert tickets would be one of the simplest systems to design from a usability and IA perspective. User searches for event, selects dates and tickets and then goes through purchase funnel.
I’m constantly amazed at how often ticket companies get online wrong. Moshtix are great and I’ve always had a good [...]

Tags: Design, Information Architecture, Usability

Seven thingsPosted on January 8, 2009

I’ve been tagged by Kelpenhagen in the Seven Things meme. You need to share 7 things about yourself, and then ask 7 people to do the same.
I’m not so sure that there are 7 interesting things about myself (at least that can be published on a work blog) but I’ll give it a go.

I [...]

Tags: memes, random thoughts

The power of communityPosted on January 6, 2009

Living in the city, we’re used to not being part of a community. Whilst I know the neighbours in the apartments next door and opposite me, I’ve never said hello to my next door neighbours or even know what they look like.
But my online community is different. I feel that’s where I get an [...]

Tags: random thoughts, social networking