We carry our mobile phones with us everywhere; they have become synonymous to communicating presence and identity. It is within this realisation that an opportunity exists for deeper integration of mobile devices into things like payments, consumer-product-interaction, customer service, etc. The most supportive technology in this regard is Near Field Communication (NFC). There are plenty of reasons to doubt the prospects of an NFC uptake in the short term, as sustainable business models are still in the very nascent stages. In the long run though, there are definite arguments that could be made for NFC to become deeply integrated as a multi-touch point technology.
Category » Innovation
16 Oct 2011
The O’Reilly Web2.0 conference started off slowly with the 1st day of the conference falling on Columbus Day (a federal holiday in the US). I opted to attend one of the offered workshops of the day: Information design in an Instrumented World. The take out for me as a caffeine deprived individual: in a world where there is a data explosion (through active and passive data sources), a designer needs to consciously know what and for whom they are designing, and at all-time make sure that there is a clear mandate from the ‘client’. Importantly, make sure there is an understanding as to what they want and why they want it. Also, watch out for ‘API vomit’:), as with so many data points available, it is crucial to remember to seek those that best addresses the mandate rather than looking to accommodate all of them.
Day 2 (and beyond) presented itself with a Schmorgasboard of presentations, which at times appeared to be a bit pitchy. The thread that I drifted to mostly was payments. These were dominated by Visa (diamond sponsor of the conference). It interesting to note that there was sort of an acknowledgment of the fact that payments is all still very experimental and that everyone is looking to be the most relevant.
06 Sep 2011
FLASH and Animations
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The word “Animation” in Web Development has always been associated to FLASH. Normally Front End Designers and Developers are mostly involved with Photoshop, JavaScript, CSS and HTMLs only and don’t normally work on FLASH.
Whenever we want a high quality animation graphics on our website, we always have to depend on a Specialized Flash developer to provide us with that content.
