Design, Science and Technology

Use these tools to help you market your business more efficiently using content marketing, SEO and Social media marketing 

Via Pantelis Chiotellis

Microsoft Research has combined projection mapping with motion sensors create RoomAlive, which turns enclosed spaces into immersive augmented experiences.

The "proof-of-concept prototype" for RoomAlive uses a series of projectors and depth cameras to overlay existing surfaces with images turns the entire room into a giant interactive screen...

Via Lauren Moss

'The digital maps we loved in 2013 didn't simply illustrate novel or useful information. They did it in ways we'd never seen before, manipulating time, dimensions, perspective, even the atmosphere. These maps weren't just interesting in content; they were innovative in design. That's our new bar for 2014.

So this December, instead of sharing our top 10 maps of the year, we're looking at 10 ways we've learned to think about maps in entirely new ways. This may well have been the year when maps ceased to impress us for what they convey and began to stun us instead for how they did it.'

Via Lauren Moss

'Taste the Feeling' is Coke’s new global marketing campaign. See the ads and hear the music here.

Via Sylvain Leroux

Think your password will protect you? Think again. New research shows that passwords are not a viable security practice. We created this infographic with Ping Identity to examine the false security of passwords.

Via Lauren Moss

The 10 most egregious UX offenses against users. Web design disasters and HTML horrors are legion, though many usability atrocities are less common than they used to be.

Marty Note
If you took a day and fixed any of these Top 10 Web Design Mistakes That Apply you would make 50% more this holiday season. These are "cost of poker" fixes that can easily remain for years and years. Every year one of these mistakes exists your website is 10% less effective.

When you make 2 or more of these mistakes you pay with an order of magnitude more pain for each added mistake so 2 mistakes doesn't cost you 20%. No 2 mistakes cost you 200% of what your website could be doing for you.

Fix all 10 of these basic problems and your site is on its way to its "mission critical" place in your company.

 

Via Martin (Marty) Smith

We are living in the information age. The amount of information stored, transfered, and processed is growing at a staggering rate.

From the common megabyte to the mind-boggling yottabyte, this infographic serves as a guide to understanding the world of bytes!

Via Lauren Moss