Category: Technology

Are Hollow Icons Really Harder to Recognize Than Solid Icons? A Research Study

June 17, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Last summer software designer Aubrey Johnson published a post on Medium with a specific critique of Apple’s brand new mobile operating system, iOS7. Johnson suggested that Apple’s new “hollow” icons, being more visually complex than “solid” icons, create cognitive fatigue for users that will eventually lead them to tire of the interface and stop using it. The timely, bite-sized post was shared and discussed widely, with some designers affirming it as sensible advice and others criticizing it as overblown, oversimplified, and lacking valid evidence. An example of solid and hollow icons in the tab bar of an app in Appleâ€™s iOS7. The selected icon, Top Charts, uses a filled-in “solid” style. The unselected icons use an outlined “hollow” style. As …

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Are Hollow Icons Really Harder to Recognize Than Solid Icons? A Research Study

How Peak Design Recovers 12% of Abandoned Carts With Email Remarketing

June 17, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Close your eyes. Take a second and imagine yourself shopping on your favorite e-commerce website. You’ve got a cart that’s full of merchandise and you’re about to check out. You take your credit card out and begin completing the checkout form. First Name, Last Name, Email Address, Payment Info. The phone rings, your boss walks in, those TPS reports are due. Panic. You quickly Xed out of the window. You’ve just abandoned your cart. There are hundreds of reasons why people abandon online transactions and it happens almost 67% of the time on e-commerce websites according to the Baymard Institute. It’s not all bad news, however. Let’s think about your transaction from the e-commerce companies’ perspective. Compared …

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How Peak Design Recovers 12% of Abandoned Carts With Email Remarketing

The Next 20 Years Are Going To Make The Last 20 Look Like We Accomplished Nothing In Tech

June 17, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

The Edge Kevin Kelly The world is hitting its stride in technological advances and futurists have been making wild-sounding bets on what we’ll accomplish in the not-so-distant future. Futurist Ray Kurzweil, for example, believes that by 2040 artificial intelligence will be so good, humans will be fully-immersed in virtual reality and that something called The Singularity, when technology becomes so advanced that it actually changes the human race irreversibly, will occur. Kevin Kelly, who helped launched Wired in 1993, sat down for an hour-long video interview with John Brockman at The Edge. Kelly believes that the next 20 years in technology will be radical. So much so, that he believes our technological advances will make the previous 20 years “pale” in comparison. “If we were sent …

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The Next 20 Years Are Going To Make The Last 20 Look Like We Accomplished Nothing In Tech

With ‘The Machine,’ HP May Have Invented a New Kind of Computer

June 12, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

If Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) founders Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard are spinning in their graves, they may be due for a break. Their namesake company is cooking up some awfully ambitious industrial-strength computing technology that, if and when it’s released, could replace a data center’s worth of equipment with a single refrigerator-size machine. Photograph by Richard Lewington/Hewlett-PackardHP CTO Martin Fink in the Photonics laboratory at HP LabsThat’s what they’re calling it at HP Labs: the Machine. It’s basically a brand-new type of computer architecture that HP’s engineers say will serve as a replacement for today’s designs, with a new operating system, a different type of memory, and superfast data transfer. The company says …

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With ‘The Machine,’ HP May Have Invented a New Kind of Computer – Businessweek

The inventor of Comic Sans tells the story behind the world’s most-hated font

June 9, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

The inventor of Comic Sans tells the story behind the world’s most-hated font.

Comic Sans, the font we all love to hate, has an interesting story, which was recently told by its very creator on stage of the most recent edition of the Boring conference. The legendary font made the rounds again a few months ago when graphic designer Craig Rozynski developed its doppelganger – Comic Neue. Comic Sans was created for a short-lived Windows interface called Microsoft Bob. It featured a cartoon dog character who spoke to computer users through speech bubbles. The words inside the speech bubble were rendered in Times New Roman, which didn’t look right to Connare (the font creator). He thought a cartoon dog should…

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The inventor of Comic Sans tells the story behind the world’s most-hated font