Castrol's personalised advertising billboard

By combining number plate recognition software and interactive billboard technology Castrol have come up with the ultimate personalised advertising to sell their products.

Philips 21 : 9 TV (Interactive Timeline)

Philips has created a nice interactive timeline experience to promote their new TV.

Philips 21:9

Interactive movies are becoming more and more sophisticated, and can have such a dramatic impact.

Malcolm Gladwell Talk On TED

Interesting thoughts here from Malcolm Gladwell:

I would like to see if this thinking could be applied to websites.

Philips vs. Twitter

Philips believe that their products are so good they can take on anything and win! Using mainly Twitter, Philips is asking for crazy ideas for Philips vs.

Watch this to get the idea… Philips vs. the Sun

Philips vs. official website

Modelling Tools

The more user interface and user experience design I do the more I feel our tools are still very crude. While computing power and potential ways of delivering that power and interacting with it are racing ahead, we are still using very simple, almost stone age tools.

We use different types of modelling, personas, user modelling, task modelling etc to try and abstract and simplify how users may behave. We try to impose an abstract model onto the complexities of user behaviour. At the heart of our suppositions is that users are rational beings who engage with sites in a goal oriented fashion. They enter our site with a distinct aim or set of aims and we assume they will stick to this aim unless our design or the content of the site thwarts or fails to satisfy them.

Yes, personas are good in the sense that they allow all members

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