Tag: user experience (UX)
The Advent of Finnish Emojis: Happy Holidays, Headbangers
The Finnish government has released its own set of emojis (絵文字) that capture just what it means to be so Finnish. Reflecting the season that's in it, you...
Is Your Development Relations Effort Global?
Just back from a very successful visit to Beijing and Singapore where I delivered PaaS for SaaS enablement to local Oracle partners.
Oracle Applications User Experience partner enablement is...
How Well Do You Know Your Local User? Take A Walk (or Run) In Their Shoes
How well do you know the local market? What assumptions do you operate on? Well, take a look at this post "Design Time @...
Going Native: Chinese Mobile UX
Shout out for a great article by Dan Grover (@dangrover), writing about Chinese mobile app user interface trends.
Dan relocated from San Francisco to China,...
When Myself and Himself of Smartling Met at the #Websummit
Delighted to say that I've finally met in person with Jack Welde (@jwelde) of Smartling. We've been missing each other for about 12 months...
On Chimpanzees, Translators, and Technology: #Haterzgonnahate
User experience (UX) is about understanding everything a user encounters along the journey to completing a task. Working in UX means observing the people,...
Google Glass Exploration: A Global Heads Up
If you're a fan of the cultural dimensions of information and communications technology and also into wearables, then you might like to play at...
DARE to be HyperLocal: Context and Language at the Mall
I love this piece about regional language preferences from the San Francisco Chronicle blog, “Which Words Are Special to Californian?”. It offers us a...
Augmented Reality Translation and Wearables: Sit Up and Take Notice
About three years ago on Blogos, I wrote about the Visual Quest Word Lens app. I wrote that "there was a lot more than...