The Flicker Blog and Podcast

Came across this simple, yet rather nice idea today from Tiggdo. Create an account, point your phone at their WAP site and add your account details.

After you’ve been through the initial set-up process once, you’re prompted to save your homepage as bookmark on your phone. And that’s it! You use the website to add, edit or remove RSS feeds as you see fit. Given how clunky that the navigation is on mobile devices, this seems like a rather nice way of pulling all the stuff you care about into one, easy to access place.

On Boxes and Arrows, Andres Zapata gives a helpful tutorial on turning wireframe designs into dimensional narratives – communicating quickly, clearly and cheaply, the intended interaction conventions and patterns.

Five eye-tracking experiments conducted on 5 sites, over 5 days.
Etre have (rather helpfully) released the findings for their tests on the Dixons, Currys, Amazon, Marks & Spencer and HMV sites.

It was interesting to read how Amazon exploit their awareness of the page’s hotspots to market offers and services more effectively than many of their competitors.