The Temptation of Templates
I love templates. At their best, they add structure and pattern to make an interactive experience easy to use and efficient to design. But, sometimes, we get so enamored with [...]
I'm Colleen "Leen" Jones, a consultant in Atlanta, GA. Here, I share thoughts about content strategy and influence. Interested in working together? Take a look at Content Science. More →
I love templates. At their best, they add structure and pattern to make an interactive experience easy to use and efficient to design. But, sometimes, we get so enamored with [...]
In my role as Chair of CHI*Atlanta, my eyes have opened to some inspiring win-win situations. One of the most inspiring is the effort to make travel and tourism in [...]
They DO.
I feel the need to say what should be the obvious. Why? Because recently, while catching up on my Twitter feed, the following statement smacked me like a gauntlet:
It’s [...]
Mobile technology has amazing potential as a persuasive medium for business, public health, and more. B.J. Fogg astutely predicted that mobile technology would be THE medium to get information to [...]
Congratulations to User Insight for a gorgeous new website! It’s completely revamped and shows why Forrester ranked User Insight as one of the top user research firms in the U.S.
Explaining [...]
Any company with a mobile interest is creating new customer experiences faster than you can say “iPhone.” An interesting one is American Airlines’ mobile boarding pass. In this experience, innovative [...]
When I talk to people — clients, UX professionals, interactive marketers — about content, I find an assumption often lurks beneath their comments. What’s that assumption? It’s content = copy. From that assumption [...]
For people like me, who care about content, it’s an exciting time. We now have more and better interactive options for presenting the right content, in the right [...]
Gotvmail.com is a site with wonderful examples of content that is both usable and persuasive–or what I call winning. The site makes its voicemail service hard to resist [...]