The battle of the bots: Amazon Alexa wins the battle, but Google Assistant needs to win the war
In a recent analysis in Business Insider, Matt Weinberger asserts that Amazon's Alexa voice-based service spells doom to Google. With all...
Can research mislead designers?
n a recent article, website usability guru Jakob Nielsen uses research and the traditional scientific method to explain — once and for...
Designed to mislead: How an info-graphic can be designed to be propaganda
A friend of mine recently sent me an animated info-graphic that depicts America’s unemployment rate, broken out by county, over time from...
Is Facebook the new RSS?
In the late 1990’s, RSS feeds were born. The abbreviation had promise: It was easy to say (“arr ess ess” just sounds interesting...
Organic vs. digital experiences
In a recent post on Engadget, Michael Gartenberg advanced a theory that the new “Metro” user interface (UI) design ethos was a refreshing...