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Producing a website is not what it used to be; with the prevalence of mobile devices, tapping and pinching is how most people interact with content.
If your website is not fully touch friendly you have probably been living in a cave. Deloitte predicts that in 2013 global shipments of smartphones will exceed one billion unites
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If you haven’t heard of Le Web London then you have been missing out. It’s the closest thing I have seen in the UK to the world’s greatest American tech festival and meet-up, SXSW. Today is the last day of the 2 day event in Central London. So why should digital agencies and BIMA members
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It has been widely publicised that the riots we are experiencing throughout the UK have been instigated via social networks. But what is the true role of social networks here, and should we be preventing these services from exacerbating such situations?
There’s no way you could have missed the latest news stories, groups of youths within
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Joseph Jaffe launched his new book “Flip The Funnel” at SXSW (Austin, Texas) last month. The book is supposed to help digital agencies, marketing folk and brands reassess how they do business online (and offline). Jaffe is a marketing wizard and hailed as one of the most sought-after consultants, speakers and thought leaders on new
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I just got back from SXSW which is the world’s largest interactive festival in Austin, Texas . I am still buzzing from that week and during April 2011 will write about my experiences at six of the key talks and panels.

What is social commerce?
From a business perspective, social commerce can be described broadly as “the ability to influence and prompt an online exchange of goods or commodities between parties through the medium of a social network”. This is the notion that use of popular social networks like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, can directly drive sales
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Native Mobile apps and web apps with locative features are being hailed as the next big thing in Interactive Media. Multi-touch user interactions using GPS, Gyroscopes and Web services are at the forefront of interactive media technology.

I recently came across the design by community webpage by Nokia, which is a ‘crowd sourcing’ attempt to engage real users in the product design of a new handset. Every week, Nokia asked real users to comment on important aspects of their new generation phone such as the operating system, user interfaces, materials, camera, the
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I saw James Jesse Garret at UX London last month (end May 2010). His talk had a big impact on my thought patterns. In this short article I am summarising my notes from the event.
James was an advocate of Nielsen-Norman-Togg’s philosophy and wrote ‘The Elements of User Experience’ which has a major impact on
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Last week I attended UX London, a 3 day conference featuring some of the biggest names in the User Experience industry. The event covered all the latest studies and information about User Experience and was an unmissable chance to apply value from a wide span of knowledge into real client work. For those who didn’t
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