Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Blippar - augmented reality app

On the back of the Lucky Charms cereal box there was a game board and advertisement for a mobile app, Blippar. I had very low expectations for any app that advertises on a cereal box. It was really impressive. The only downside is that I have not seen any Blip-purtunities since then. Seems to be popular in Europe. 

Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Password reset - Firefox

Password reset process for Mozilla

Enter email address

Check email
 

Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Firefox - Make Google your default search engine


While using Firefox browser I visited google.com.
I was prompted to make Google my default browser.

This was the view above the fold:
Clicking Get started scrolled the page down to the first section.
 

 This was the full page view:

Tuesday, March 10, 2015

iPhone iOS 8 Spotlight Search

I recently upgraded to iOS8 on my iPhone 5s. 
When you swipe down on any home screen it reveals a Spotlight Search bar. There is a paragraph explaining the expanded functionality.



"In addition to searching your iPhone, Spotlight now shows suggestions from the Internet, iTunes, Apps Store, movie showtimes, locations nearby, and more. You can change this in Settings. Learn more..."

I don't know how many times it was there, but now it is gone. If I had to guess, I would say 20 times, or approximately a month. Not sure which determined it, but now it is gone.

Tuesday, March 3, 2015

User Interface on Harvard Business Review article page

The article treatment on Harvard Business Review is pretty slick. 
There are four stages of the header. 

Default

Promotional

Utility navigation

 Article title

 Progress bar (dots)



Progress bar is full when you reach the footer (it includes reader comments)


Link to the article
https://hbr.org/2015/01/the-capabilities-your-organization-needs-to-sustain-innovation