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As it happens, designing Future Interfaces For The Future used to be my line of work . I had the opportunity to design with real working prototypes, not green screens and After Effects, so there certainly are some interactions in the video which I'm a little skeptical of, given that I've actually tried them and the animators presumably haven't. But that's not my problem with the video.
A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design
Why Headlines Attract More User Attention Than Images - UX Movement
by anthony on 10/26/11 at 10:14 am When websites show content, they’ll usually use a headline and image. Headline and image quality is important in getting the user’s attention.
Increasingly users are discovering great content, products and links through social referrals such as +1 button endorsements , comments, likes, and shares. Earlier this year we introduced Social Plugin Analytics to help you analyze how users engage with any social plugin installed on your site - after all, what can be measured can also be improved and optimized! MilkADeal started using Google Analytics earlier this year. It is a company in Malaysia that has benefited greatly from using Social Plugin Analytics.
Optimize Engagement using AddThis and ShareThis with Analytics
How Google Does Personalization with Jack Menzel
Jack Menzel is a Product Management Director for Google Search. Jack leads the teams developing new technologies used for personalization, question answering, web page summarization, and image search. Prior to joining Google Jack worked as a Program Manager at Microsoft.
To set the stage, yesterday Google announced a new “Freshness” Update , which had an effect on 35% of all queries. Barry wrote a great post about it on Search Engine Land and Rand and Mike followed up with a great Whiteboard Friday documenting some of the early observations from SEOs . But beyond the news of the update, I’d like to look at some of the potential methodologies used by search engines to implement this update. This is quite a long post, so you might want to grab some coffee. Also, the standard disclaimer that I don’t work for search engines, I can’t guarantee the validity of the methodologies outlined in this post, but it’s all based on search engine patents and papers. I spent 6 hours reading so you don’t have to.
Methods for Evaluating Freshness | Justin Briggs
I’m currently developing some wireframes as we pave the way for a revamp of this blog later this year. There are lots of things to think about. One of those things is typography. Closely related to that is optimal headline length. I always try to write headlines that fit on one line, though I don’t always succeed. Nevertheless, short headlines beat longer ones for lots of reasons.
How to optimise headlines using the 65 character rule | Econsultancy