Monthly Archives: May 2010

As our tea project progresses, we’re looking at many of the products in the space and what people are saying about them, focusing on forms, materials, and any issues tea drinkers have encountered. Continue reading Kicker Tea Project: Competitive Analysis, Design Principles, and Initial Concepting >>

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• Pandigital announces a 7" color ebook reader with Barnes & Noble. Touchscreen, wifi, Andoid, $199 http://is.gd/cnAkb #
• 2010: The Year Instant Messaging Finally Died? http://is.gd/cnRmE #unlikely #
• Congrats to our client SpringCM on their 2010 CODiE Award for Best Document Management Solution!

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“We traveled to SF’s South Park neighborhood to interview him in Kicker Studio’s echo-rich, dog-friendly loft offices. It was late on a Friday, he’d had a crazy week and casually nursed a glass of Bourbon as we talked about UX, robotics, magazines on tablets, and how good usability should help us forget that computers are everywhere.” Continue reading Dan Saffer: The Want Interview >>

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This weekend Kicker Studio was invited to participate as expert advisors at the first Hacks/Hackers Unite! weekend workshop at KQED, where 80 journalists and hackers got together to design and build news applications for the iPad.  I attended the event, giving a short kick-off presentation on user experience  considerations when designing applications for… Continue reading Hacks & Hackers Unite >>

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I’ve put a handful of books on my iPad over the last few weeks, but I have to admit: I keep forgetting to read them. Not because the books aren’t good, but because, unlike physical books, ebooks take up no psychic space. Physical books by the nature of them being, well, physical and visible, remind me to read them. This isn’t true of digital books. I can’t currently glance at the app icon and know whether I have a library beneath it, waiting to be read, or nothing. There’s no visual affordance that there is anything there for me to engage with. Continue reading Ebook Affordances >>

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Kicker’s Jennifer Bove is in this month’s HOW magazine‘s My Best Work column on the Kicker Conference Phone. Download the article (281k PDF). Continue reading Kicker in HOW Magazine >>

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When a user, knowingly or unknowingly, initiates a mode that lasts for the duration of a single action, then turns off, it’s a micromode. Continue reading Micromodes >>

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