Gmail iPhone app tour (11/2013)

UI Tour: Weather app iOS

Screen Shots of the Weather.com app on iOS

Gmail iPhone app tour (9/2013)

Screen Shots of the Gmail's new inbox update for iOS
This is similar to the Gmail app introduction

Welcome to the new inbox

Your mail is now grouped into categories.
Button 1: Close

Button 2: Start tour

Action: Swiped to next panel.

Never miss a thing

It's easy to access and keep track of email in other categories.
The buttons are replaced with arrows that indicate Previous and Next.

Customize

Set notifications in the app and change categories from Gmail on your computer.

The arrow in the bottom right is replaced with a button labeled Close.

Get Started: Google+

Screen shots of Google+ Get Started screensMy comments in blue

Google+

Share with the people you care about, and explore the stuff you're into.

Button: Get Started 

Subtext: Sign in with your Gmail, YouTube, or other Google Account

Gmail iPhone app tour (6/2013)

New terms of service, Google

Introducing iTunes Radio (Desktop)

The Weather Channel tour

Welcome to Google Maps Engine Lite

Help us, give us your cell number

How do you gather a customer's cell phone number without objection?
Scare them.

Chrome has updated

Chrome has updated

YouTube iOS app - User interface tour

YouTube iOS app

  
Orientation screens for the new YouTube app on iOS, captured on August 30, 2013.

Swipe down to watch and browse: Video moves to lower right and allows user to search.

Swipe left or right to make it go away: It refers to the video that is playing.

Tap to minimize: Now they tell you that you can simply tap the down carrot to minimize, no swiping necessary.

Swipe to dismiss: Reminding you in context that you can swipe to dismiss the current video.

Swipe to open menu: In context they tell you that you can swipe to open the off-canvas menu.

Able to travel through time, visits McDonalds

When would you travel to?

Password suggestion

Pop-up window from ADP website while surfing on Chrome: 

"Please make your New Password different"!

404: LinkedIn

Interesting: The text on the slippery-when-wet-sign could be highlighted for copy/paste purposes.

YouTube - Channel - User interface tour

YouTube.com

Pinterest - Desktop - User interface tour

https://www.pinterest.com/

Click here for tour of iOS

Escalator broken, sorry for the convenience.

Escalator broken = stair case.

Marketing Stew: Ingredient #3

Marketing Stew, ingredient #3: Create scarcity

The new Google Maps is promoted with a button that says, "Request an invite"

Update on June 7, 2013: I received an email later that confirmed my involvement. When I clicked the link within the email message this page opened.

Congratulations! You're in.

Get ready to try the new Google Maps.

Button label: Start Exploring

Gang has new weapons, Kmart catalogue is available!

Reading an article about Gang violence, this ad appears.

The Facebook advertisement algorithm is working really well.

Elmo says F is for...

Came across this fail page on Sesame Street's website. The flash player did not work
and instead of the lego, they gave me this.

iTunes Welcome screen

Gutter-balls are bad

I think everyone can agree that in bowling a gutter-ball is a bad thing.

Yesterday as I celebrated several gutter-balls at the alley with my coworkers, I wondered how a rut and a groove can have such drastically different connotations.

I am sure you have heard the expression, 
"After he graduated school, he got into a rut. Then later that year, he got into a groove."

Was Louie up, then down; or down then up?

Here is a roll of tape.

Are the arrows indicating the direction of the tape, or the direction of the pull tab?

Affect leads to an Effect

This one is always tricky to remember.

My memory hook is to think of the alphabet. A comes before E.

Affect is an Action.
Effect is a rEsult.

Gold inside an egg (carton)

"This is the Day which the Lord has made: Let us rejoice and be glad in it."
Psalms 118.24

Snow-tober

Good morning Oct 30, 2012

That, which

Recently I realized a rule of thumb to rely on in regard to using "that" or "which."

My pod mate (new age cubicles), Marshall, said:
The phrase following "that" effectively becomes an adjective and is necessary information to define the object.
The phrase following "which" is information not necessary to the object
It also should be preceded by a comma.

So...
The wicked witch lives in a castle that is haunted.
The wicked witch lives in a castle, which is in the east.

Office job with a view

Saw these guys on my way in to work today. I wonder if they zip line at the end of the shift.

G.E.I.Co

I just learned that GEICO is an acronym for Government Employees Insurance Company.

Despite the presence of the word "government" in its name, GEICO has always been a private corporation not affiliated with any government organization. (Via Wikipedia)

Ask for a car wash

My sister just got a new car and she negotiated free car wash service for life.

The tesla roadster base package is $109,000. Apparently no car wash service included.