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Fashion Site Design Pattern

Eric Fader — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 19:08:15 +0000

Increasingly fashion brands are establishing a direct channel online for consumers to purchase their products. There are many great examples of fashion brands selling direct including Mr. Porter, Everlane, and Warby Parker.

The design pattern across those three sites includes the following pattern:
- Predominantly white background
- Text based logo with bold font
- Centered text based logo in black
- Large hero product imagery with auto slide show

Chill Launches Pinterest for Video

Eric Fader — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 07:13:24 +0000

Accessible via http://vip.chill.com/, the folks at Chill are launching a redesign that focuses on a Pinterest design pattern for consuming videos from and with your friends.

Welcome to Chill from Chill on Vimeo.

Good Design is a Tough Job

Eric Fader — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 02:49:12 +0000

Curled Up Experience

Eric Fader — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 04:46:39 +0000

Jason Calacanis recently wrote about the “Curled Up” experience after watching people consume content on tablets compared to other consumption experiences such as “lean back” or “lean forward”. With Mahalo’s focus on video and iPad applications, this is a very pertinent observation.

Tablets are leading to new experiences both within the applications and how people react when consuming those experiences. The combination of device form factor and interactivity of the content is probably what is driving the more intimate “Curled Up” experience.

The question remains how will companies such as Facebook leverage and adapt to the “Curled Up” experience? Facebook acquired Push Pop Press in 2011 and this team is more than capable of creating experiences that are unlike what consumers have seen. I hope that the Facebook team leverages their talent to take the user experience to the next level combining all of the assets available within users’ timelines to create a “Curled Up” experience.

There are two iPad applications that really exemplify and facilitate a “Curled Up” experience. The first was created by Road Inc. and focuses on the love of the automobile and design. The second focuses on Frank Lloyd Wrights’ Falling Water house. Watch the demo videos below:

Road Inc. App for iPad | The Legendary Cars Anthology from PYROLIA SA on Vimeo.

Facebook Cards via Moo

Eric Fader — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 04:12:24 +0000

Moo.com the creative business card and sticker company is leveraging Facebook and the disparate content that user keep within their timelines for business cards. What is really nice about this offering is that each card can have a different backing which is great for artists and offering a unique experience. Another example would be to place a unique id or code on the back of each card so that the contact can redeem or identify themselves along with interacting online.

Cubelets Modular Robot Building

Eric Fader — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:35:06 +0000

Cubelets are a series of squares that when combined creates a variety of robots.

Microphone Enables Gestures

Eric Fader — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 04:44:08 +0000

A new technology enables people to turn any surface ranging from glass to a tree to balloon, into an interface that reacts to a gestures. It acts based on the vibrations from when people touch a given surface and then those vibrations are turned into waves that a computer can recognize in Shazam-like fashion. This technology was created by Bruno Zamborlin and Norbert Schnell

Perceive Patterns

Eric Fader — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 07:00:18 +0000

Patterns are everywhere and disparate types of analysis enable the recognition of those patterns.

TO UNDERSTAND IS TO PERCEIVE PATTERNS from jason silva on Vimeo.

Micorosft Holodeck

Eric Fader — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 18:01:37 +0000

YouTube Slam

Eric Fader — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 23:43:54 +0000

YouTube just released a new featured called YouTube Slam where users can vote, in hot or not like fashion, for the video that wins that particular battle. Battles are currently restricted to Comedy, Music, Cute, Dance, and Bizarre videos. This is a great move on behalf of YouTube to add interaction beyond the view, comment, like, and share. So far there is a significant amount of activity and gamification was wisely deployed.

Then come play YouTube Slam—a video discovery experiment we cooked up with folks from Google Research. Each week a new crop of videos battles head-to-head in Comedy, Cute, Music, Bizarre and Dance Slams, where your votes determine who wins the Slam and gets featured on the leaderboard.

Google is using YouTube Slam as an experiment to bolster its algorithm based discovery of emerging talent. More details can be found here on Google’s research blog: http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2011/11/discovering-talented-musicians-with.html Tweet