Structural words and turns of phrase are used as social signals that carry key information about the relationship between the parties involved in a discussion.
The only “right” approach is tweaking a design based on a feedback loop of observation.
Rethink the expectation that people will use a service for that which it is intended.
“Just as soon as we begin to hone the ability to communicate through images it is stripped away from us.”
Narrow-minded fools who are unable to face the wider social problems of their society will always look to externalize the issue in an object.
Is the popularity of Twitter best explained using the psychology of addiction and gambling?
What US Game Developers Need to Know about Free-to-Play in China.
The explosion of conversation-driven web applications in today’s world is a sign of technology beginning to fold in upon itself.
How video games trained a generation of athletes.
How to make short text messages more effective.
It's hard to step away from our assumptions and actually consider the experiences that non-technical people have using the web.
Portigal Consulting talk about the analog human and the digital machine.
Interview with a Nigerian email scammer.
Twitter as performance; Dean Allen ruminates on the end of an experiment.
The world of Alice and Kev is an experiment by Robin Burkinshaw, playing a homeless family in The Sims 3.
In the last 30 years neuroscience has given us great insight into the workings of the human brain and as more information emerges, it becomes clear just how out of step with reality conventional attitudes…