I’m happy to announce I’m a design expert blogger for Fast Company. My blog is called, Design Pragmatist and I’m looking forward to writing like crazy. My first article is, How the iPad Might Bring Us Back to Our Print Roots. More to come soon!
I’ve always loved Terry Gilliam’s work. From Python to 12 Monkeys, his work is beautifully strange. I’m looking forward to Imaginarium and more so, I’m interested in learning how he kept his project on track and still…Gilliamesque with the unfortunate passing of Heath Ledger. Hugh Heart of Wired interviewed Gilliam, and it doesn’t disappoint.
I was recently quoted in E-Commerce News on my thoughts regarding Google’s acquisition of Teracent. This takes many of the design rules I’ve discussed in the past and starts to toss them out the window.
17 Nov, 2009
Posted by: Giovanni Calabro In: User Experience
I’m in a new publication discussing web product development successes and knowing the mind of the user. Read the rest in Pragmatic Marketing.
This is a fascinating look into Choose Your Own Adventure books from an informational design perspective.
CNN.com just launched a redesigned site today. Two aspects that are striking to me. Strong push for personalization. CNN was already pushing heavily on personalization however they are promoting it even stronger with this redesign. I wonder how this will be adopted by their audience. What happened to the clean design? Seems CNN moved from [...]
This was a very interesting look at desktop UI, implications of removing the use of a mouse, and what your fingers might do in the future. 10/GUI from C. Miller on Vimeo.
“comScore and Starcom USA Release Updated “Natural Born Clickers” Study Showing 50 Percent Drop in Number of U.S. Internet Users Who Click on Display Ads.” This is always one of those topics that the layperson will respond to with a flippant, “I’d love to have a job where I can state the obvious.” However if [...]
03 Jun, 2009
Posted by: Giovanni Calabro In: User Experience
A news release from Nielsen Online is reporting amazing growth in social networking. You can read the release here.
What do you get when you pull together e-mail, instant messaging, blogging, photo aggregation, and any other means of collaborating or communicating with anyone? My first thought was pure hell… but once I saw this…. wow.