Tag: Online
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Site review: Carwow
“Be a happy car buyer” is what it says on the homepage of http://www.carwow.co.uk/. The promise here is that people will “Experience new car buying without any of the hassle or uncertainty”. Carwow’s proposition is effectively a reverse marketplace; enabling users to specify the car that they would like to buy and attracting offers based on their specifications. Once…
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Thread (Product Review)
Thread looks like the perfect site for fashionable men or those who perhaps want to become a bit more fashionable. It was founded by serial entrepreneur Kieran O’Neill who explained to GQ at the end of last year what Thread is all about: “what’s special is that you have access to the exact same stylists that celebrities or wealthy…
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Ben Essen and The Quantified Self
The other day I heard a few people use the term “quantified self”. Through Wikipedia I learned that the quantified self stands for “a movement to incorporate technology into data acquisition on aspects of a person’s daily life in terms of inputs, states, and performance.” In other words, this is all about quantifying peoples’ lives and behaviours,…
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Wearable trends to look out for in 2014
I remain fascinated by everything that’s happening in the wearable technology space. I wrote about this space earlier, looking at companies such as Jawbone and Airstrip. With the annual Consumer Electronics Show (‘CES’) just behind us, I thought it would be good to look at some wearable trends to keep an eye on in 2014: Gaming –…
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Rapid prototyping – Storyboarding, paper prototyping and digital mockups
In a the online Human-Computer Interaction course that I did recently, I learned quite a bit about “rapid prototyping”. As the name suggests rapid prototyping is all about mocking up ideas quickly, to get user feedback fast. In the lecture on this topic, Scott Klemmer – an Associate Professor of Cognitive Science and Computer Science &…
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