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2013 Tech Trends & Plans
2013 TRENDS In scanning the Forbes Magazine, Washington Post and Rolling Stone I saw these commonalities and stand-outs: Mobile Device Battles: In 2013, mobile devices will surpass PCs as the most common Web access tools. By 2015, over 80% of handsets in mature...
emfluence’s UX Smorgasbord
The emfluence Marketing Platform has been sampling a UX (user experience) smorgasbord, from delectable user interviews to full-bodied heuristics. Their appetite was spurred by the need to redesign their Marketing Platform with a look that would be more telling of its...
What’s New in the emfluence Marketing Platform
by Jessica Best, emfluence Community Director The emfluence Marketing Platform has come a long way since we first started working with Fluid-UI. Since our post in June 2011, we’ve had over a year of updates and another User Conference to talk to our platform users...
Sprint’s Site Goes Green
Last Spring I was given a delightful little puzzle by a Sprint User Experience (UX) Manager. He challenged me to apply the PET Principal (Persuasion, Emotion and Trust) to the footer of Sprint.com. A new look to the footer that would speak to prospects and customers,...
America Innovates
Ingenuity defines America. France has romance, England is prim-and-proper and Germany has industrialism. Americans are the inventors of electricity, automobile assembly, the telephone and the digital computer. If we did not invent it, we capitalized upon it. As we...
5 Tips for Surveying
based on the article of Gayle Kaplan, National Information Services (NIS) Whether you're collecting data on your own for the first time or have hired a professional consultant, the validity of your research is dependent on the validity of your survey and it's...
Being Different or Being Better
I met with an ecommerce company who wanted a UI that was different from their competition. So strongly they felt, that they did not assess their competitors' design, architecture or task flows. Thus, they had a clumsy UI and complicated tasks compared to their...
Sprint, Sprial16 & National Seminars Go Searching
We have had a wonderfully engaging summer. Working for Sprint, Spiral16 and National Seminars we improved, expanded and created search and sort functions. The experience, paired with the invigorating Indian Summer weather, has our creativity humming. First-up, Sprint...
The Difference Between Social Media Monitoring and Measurement
by Eric Melin, Spiral16 Manager Marketing & Communications Companies today have a wide array of options when it comes to web and social media monitoring and measurement. Once you have collected all the relevant data for your brand or online market study, though,...