Category Archives: design

iPhone 4 Antennas: The Fun Side

July 25, 2010 – 8:30 pm

We’ll leave serious industry matters aside this week. (If you must, you can wade into Apple’s Q3 numbers here, or luxuriate in the impending ouster of Nokia CEO OPK and consider the list of possible replacements.) Instead, we’ll look into the fun side of Apple’s antenna, or antennas (not antennae, a solecism from last week. [...]

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The lethal self-complacency of advertising

May 24, 2010 – 5:29 pm

Is advertising the next casualty of the on-going digital tsunami’s? For now, advertising looks like the patient who developed an asymptomatic form of cancer without realizing how sick he is. Such behavior usually results from excessive confidence in one’s body past performance, mixed with a state of permanent denial and a deep sense of superiority, [...]

Edited by Frédéric Filloux | Also posted in advertising | Comments (19)

Reconciling efficiency with serendipity

April 26, 2010 – 8:31 am

For digital media publishers, Design is the biggest challenge. Business model is king, of course, but it needs strong design to reign. The same goes for content. Without clever navigation, after a quick stunt on the home page, a good story might die buried deep inside the bowels of a site before realizing its full [...]

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Catching The iPad Wave: Seven Thoughts

April 5, 2010 – 8:32 am

1. Design The iPad is all about design, and interface expectations. From a graphic design standpoint, with the iPad, the quantum leap is its ability to render layouts, typefaces, page structure. No more web HTML lowest common denominator, here. What comes out from an art director gets WYSIWYGed on the iPad — if the implementation [...]

Edited by Frédéric Filloux | Also posted in hardware, mobile internet | Tagged , | Comments (15)

The future of content navigation

March 7, 2010 – 6:13 pm

Let’s forget business models and monetization — just for a brief moment. Instead, we’ll focus on one key issue: the interface, the way you access, browse, spot, save relevant information. The interface is pivotal. A good one will allow you to rope in your readers / viewers, and make them loyal to your brand, your [...]

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The web’s design problems

November 22, 2009 – 8:48 pm

Applied to news, the web doesn’t suffer from one, but three flaws. Let’s call these the Rectangle, the Bottleneck, and the Diversion.  These flaws got built into the system from the very beginning and, now, their impact has become harder to deal with. For new sites, these unforeseen aftereffects have grown to become real obstacles [...]

Edited by Frédéric Filloux | Also posted in advertising | Comments (13)

The Internet Creative Deflation

May 31, 2009 – 1:16 pm

When LG, the cell phone manufacturer, started work on far-reaching future concepts for handset, it had two choices. The most obvious one was setting up a competition between world-class design firms, getting a stampede and a bidding war as a result, and picking one firm to work on its concept-phones. The Korean electronics giant took [...]

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