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So, here's a Vision Of The Future that's popular right now. It's a lot of this sort of thing. As it happens, designing Future Interfaces For The Future used to be my line of work .
A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design
Why Headlines Attract More User Attention Than Images
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.
Optimize Engagement using AddThis and ShareThis with Analytics Friday, October 28, 2011 | 11:43 AM Labels: Advanced Topics , Code and Configuration , Related Products , Social Increasingly users are discovering great content, products and links through social referrals such as +1 button endorsements , comments, likes, and shares.
Optimize Engagement using AddThis and ShareThis with Analytics
How Google Does Personalization with Jack Menzel
Key Points One of the hot areas in search is personalization. Google recognizes that personalization is a way to offer people better search results.
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.
How to optimise headlines using the 65 character rule