Great piece from Aleks Krotoski about how game mechanics can inform modern web design:
‘I recently ran into a web designer friend who’s developing the user experience for a new site. She’s never worked in the games industry, nor is she a particularly keen gamer, but she told me that games are a key inspiration for her work. Web designers eager to draw people into their sites are keen to understand the processes that lead to games’ phenomenal stickiness. Thankfully, they haven’t gone down the route of creating login forms that will only progress by collecting coins or solving puzzles; instead, savvy designers are deconstructing the mechanics of games and applying those lessons in ways relevant and unique to their services. Read the rest of this entry »
I’m not a kid. Fact. When I was a kid, which stopped when I traded a cassette tape of Michael Jackson’s Bad for a copy of Razzle, I used to self medicate with lashings of late night Channel 4 Euro movies, bothering the local livestock and sticking envelopes through people’s doors and asking them to contribute to a cure for leprosy.
When I wasn’t doing any of those things I was learning about nuclear physics, pretending to be Jean Michel Jarre and rearing baby hedgehogs.
Now it seems my fashionably depraved charity collecting would land me a heap of prescription meds to help cure my pubertyness. Ritalin this, Calmthefuckdownxstremelyquickly that, so I’d only want to watch Top Cat and… well, that’s about all I’d want to do.
Now it seems some creative Canadian has come up with a billboard viral questionning our medicated kid society. Bravo brave Canadian, bravo.
Thousands of people chat online every day - but what does it actually sound like?
A new electronic art installation at the Science Museum in London endeavours to show just that.
Listening Post allows its audience to eavesdrop on the online world. Sampling text from thousands of chatrooms, message boards and forums, the artists have created a huge display that attempts to “hear the internet”.
Artists Ben Rubin and Mark Hansen have forged a giant curved stand that is built out of 231 small electronic screens.
Virtual staring has a price tag of $20m making the founders of ugly site or not?.. very rich.
“HotOrNot makes money from advertising, virtual flowers and a premium fee when users want to connect. They experimented briefly with a free model, but abandoned it last September in the face of overwhelming spam. Their annual revenue is estimated to be around $5 million, with $2 million in profit. According to Comscore, the site has around 5 million monthly unique visitors and 200 million page views.”
Music, films, naked people are all free online, but the algorithm called love still has a price.
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Great piece from Aleks Krotoski about how game mechanics can inform modern web design:
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