Archive for the ‘video’ Category
The Powers of 10 (1968 video, by Charles and Ray Eames)
By Zach Pousman in Distill, IQ Pillars, Inspiration, Meaning, Motion, videoYou too can buy a TV spot…
By Zach Pousman in Innovation, videoGoogle has a beta release of a TV advertising campaign product. With sophisticated targeting (by traditional demographic, psychographic, and income breakdowns), Slate TV did a little test of a weird little advertisement they produced. Their ad ran 54 times on major cable stations (and very late at night) at a cost of $1300. It produced 1,000+ click throughs from 1.3 million impressions.
A Magical Take on Empathy and Customer Experience
By Emily Leahy in videoJamy Ian Swiss at Gel 2009 from Gel Conference on Vimeo.
For magic tricks to work, the magician has to be obsessed with how the audience will experience them. That desire to know the mind of the audience can be exploited by con men (or con persons) or used to create a magical experience. It’s easy [...]
Tags: audience, design philosphy, empathy, magic, ux
Much better than okay.
By Boutté in Motion, Music, design, videoI have been obsessed with music videos lately. For the most part, because they’re making a come back as real narrative pieces of art, and secondly because I want to know who is watching them and why, since the MTV of my youth died a long time ago.
When I came across a video for one [...]
Bing-Ovation
By Mason Poe in technology, videoBlaise Aguera y Arcas presentation at this years TED conference is worthy of a standing ovation and a few minutes of your time. In the video, Aguera y Arcas demos new features of Bing Maps. The maps take traditional mapping data, wrap them a Silverlight front end, stitch them together with user generated photos, add [...]
Watch Logorama
By Emily Leahy in News, Story, videoThis Oscar-nominated animated short uses over 2,500 logos to tell a disturbing story about American culture. And you can only watch it on Facebook. It’s got some rough language, so you’ll definitely want to wear headphones for this one.
More about this film at Gizmodo.
Interactive transcripts
By Sarah McFather in videoI was on Ted.com the other day when I stumbled across a really awesome feature that I had not seen before. Behold: the interactive transcript.
Now, this feature may have been around for quite some time, but I surely had not ever seen the likes of it before. It works like this: if the video has [...]
Embrace Life
By rkadgirl in Innovation, Story, videoThis is a beautiful example of how to get a message across without saying a word.
From the Sussex Safer Roads Partnership’s Embrace Life PSA.
Top 10 Reasons Why I Need an iPad
By Charles Duncan jr. in Innovation, News, Silverlight, technology, videoIn no particular order is my list of the top 10 reasons why I want need an iPad in my life.
I spend 5 – 7 hours in meetings daily and the iPad will serve me better than a laptop for note taking.
My iPhone is too small for reading and writing email.
I need a [...]
Tags: apple, ipad, mobile, technology, video