Your Opinion on a Retail Social Networking Site

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How people really use the iPhone

Bill Westerman, Create with Context

We frequently see that interaction and visual designs from one flagship product - such as the iPhone - have an influence throughout design for the web, desktop, mobile, and consumer electronics platforms. As a strategic design firm, Create with Context finds it important to stay on top of emerging design trends. We recently published "How people really use the iPhone", an interesting readout of design issues and recommendations for people designing for the iPhone and beyond. Our presentation on this topic at the iPhone Developer's Summit was called the "best presentation of the conference" by several attendees. Give us a shout if you're looking for strategic design and/or research for web, mobile, desktop, or consumer electronics. We're Silicon Valley-based, and work globally. We're at createwithcontext.com.

Bill Westerman is a Principal with Create with Context, a strategic design and research firm focused on helping clients invent and reinvigorate digital products. He works with companies ranging from early-stage startups to global brands like Adobe, Panasonic, and Yahoo! to help translate customer needs into compelling products.

My Favorite Resources - May 2009

As promised, here's my ever growing resource list and good reads for May 2009:

Technology

• Organic Motion: Inching Closer to Virtual Reality (love this!) http://abcnews.go.com/technology
  - scroll through Sci-Tech Videos
  - select: WATCH: Inching closer to virtual reality


Social Media

• Terrific article from @mashable! 12 Inspiring Stories of Successful Social Networkers http://tinyurl.com/cjwhay
  
• Ignore Twitter? Major brands learn they'd better respond -- and quick http://tinyurl.com/cmlskm #social_media
  
• Pizza Hut 'Twintern' to Guide Twitter Presence http://tinyurl.com/dljrjx #twintern (new careers for interns...?)
  
• Sodexo.com tripling their traffic with social media - http://tinyurl.com/dbhud9 #social_media @smheadhunter @chrisbrogan
  
• Interesting post - How to Monitor Your Social Media Presence in 10 Minutes a Day. http://bit.ly/NIP9v
  
• Kids Go Social http://education.zdnet.com/... and Child-friendly social networking tools http://tinyurl.com/dkp469 @MaryEllenGibson
  
• Great resource: 15 Tools Lists, Twitter Business & Social Life Resources http://tinyurl.com/bfvjfy @seoptimise
  
• Twitter Customer Service - the Ultimate List of Stores on Twitter http://tinyurl.com/c3yjxr


Mobile

• Bookmark this good article - Mobile: Making iPhone Apps Pay http://tinyurl.com/clp7by
  
• 40 Awesome #iPhone Application Websites http://tinyurl.com/dys2zd (By the way, let me know if you find others!)
  
• Giz Explains: All The Smartphone Mobile App Stores http://tinyurl.com/cj2gfl


Marketing

• No Money To Get Started with Promoting? http://tinyurl.com/cg8hks #ad-free @ArticlesBin
  
• Love it! RT @compete It's official - the new compete.com has launched http://www.compete.com/
  Compete is a new breed of web analytics company. Great UI and graphic analytics tool!
  
• 50 Content Ideas that Create Buzz (worth your time) http://is.gd/rRik RT @webupd8 @phaoloo


Design

• 84 Amazingly Useful CSS Tips & Resources | Hi, I'm Grace Smith http://ff.im/-2lnWJ @Stecki @webupd8
  
• 600+ Free Design, Twitter and Social Media Icons: A Collection Motherload! http://tinyurl.com/dawu8w @perrybelcher


Other

• Top 50 Resources & Web 2.0 Sites for Buying or Selling a Home... http://tinyurl.com/c9exr7 @energysection

Please feel free to comment to add your own resource links that I may have missed! Enjoy!