Eric Paul Snowden is an artist and designer living in Brooklyn
Posts tagged with 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 [...]
01/31/2011
LiveView – Stream iOS Comps from you Mac to your Device in Realtime
LiveView, a new project from NIcholas Zambetti allows you to broadcast your working iOS application designs from your Mac to your device for testing. You start off by installing the LiveView Screencaster on your Mac, and the free LiveView app on your iOS device. The Screencaster app is a simple window, shaped like an iPhone, [...]
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 [...]
07/30/2010
Creating Brand Guidelines
This week Smashing Magazine has a great overview for creating Style Guides for brands and websites. It covers the basics from Logos to color treatments, and even gets deeper into grid and icon use for websites. A comprehensive list of beautiful visual examples and related articles. A must read for designers who are new to [...]
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
Stickybits – Attach Comments or Media to any Barcode
Stickybits is a service that lets you attach comments or media to any barcode. Instead of generating QR codes, you can make an object social by using the barcode it already has. To tag an object without a barcode you can either download a custom code to print yourself or buy Stickybits barcode stickers. Download [...]
03/11/2010
Mobile Awesomeness
Mobile Awesomeness is a design showcase for the best mobile formatted websites. Submissions can be voted on and the gallery can be browsed by category or searched. Mobile Awesomeness also has a great list of links to mobile resources, as well as a blog focusing on mobile innovations and announcements. A must visit site for [...]
02/01/2010
Iconfinder.net – Icon Search Engine
Iconfinder is a search engine for (you guessed it) icons. It’s a great source for graphic designers to get inspiration or even download icons for commercial use. A search for “music” yielded 12 pages of results, the first of which is displayed below. The site’s functionality is fairly basic but does allow you to change [...]
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