Eric Paul Snowden is an artist and designer living in Brooklyn
Posts filed under research
11/29/2011
Bolt Peters / Warner Music Group User Research Case Study
Earlier this year WEA, Atlantic Records and Warner Brothers Records teamed up with Bolt Peters to conduct user research across three of our top artist websites. On these sites we conducted automated tests using Usabilia, as well as moderated interviews – all with actual fans coming to our websites. Check out the full case study [...]
01/20/2011
Graphic-Exchange.com – Design Blog and Visual Reference
I rarely have posts that are just links to other design sites, but this is an exception. Almost every post curated by Graphic-Exchange.com is award worthy and it makes up one of the best design collections I’ve seen on the web. A great resource for designers of any kind and an endless source or inspiration. [...]
01/20/2011
Pinterest.com – Visual Bookmarking Tool
Pinterest is a bookmarking tool, introduced to me by Jenny Bowskill, that operates like a visual pinboard – letting you save images you like and follow people who share your aesthetics. Users set up categories (known as boards) and pin images by clicking a browser plugin or bookmarklet. Unlike some visual collections, a link to [...]
12/13/2010
My abbreviated version of the Y-Combinator funding application
A few weeks ago the application for funding that Dropbox submitted to Y-Combinator (the VC firm that ended up funding them) was posted online. Nothing confidential was revealed, but is serves as a great example of how a successful startup thought through their product launch. While not all of the questions pertain to those of [...]
10/08/2010
Packrati.us = Twitter + Delicious + Instapaper
I’ve tweeted about it, told everyone I know, and am now writing a blog post about it. That’s how great Packrati.us is. I’m not sure if I’m the standard use case for Twitter, but ultimately Twitter is a replacement for my RSS reader. Google Reader failed for me, it was all business, and Facebook is [...]
06/01/2010
Seen a font and want to know what it is? Check out What The Font.
Over the course of my career I’ve been asked (or have asked) “do you know what this font is?” hundreds of times. MyFonts.com has solved this problem by creating What The Font, a simple online tool that can identify fonts. You upload an image of a font, double check to make sure it recognizes the [...]
04/29/2010
Usability Assessment of MySpace Apps Leaked
MySpace has never been know for its simplicity or usability. Fortunately for users they were trying to do something about it. Unfortunately for MySpace those documents leaked online. MySpace was seeing poor install and retention rates for their apps compared to Facebook and hired a usability team to make some web design and user experience [...]
04/28/2010
CSS iPhone – Showcase of iPhone Formatted Websites
CSS iPhone is a great resource for well designed iPhone formatted websites. Good for anyone researching mobile web design and looking for inspiration. Check out CSS iPhone.
04/26/2010
Flash Runtime Written Entirely in Javascript
Gordon is a open source Javascript based Flash Player written by Tobey Tailor that allows users to playback Flash content without having the plugin. It currently only supports Flash 1 & 2 so Actionscript users are out of luck. Right now browser support is pretty limited but it’s an interesting project worth keeping your eyes [...]
04/20/2010
Helvetica and Alternatives to Helvetica
Fontfeed.com has a great article on Helvetica and it’s alternatives, reviewing several fonts that have a similar clean feel to Helvetiva without feeling so repetetive. Read the full article here.
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