http://www.the4thstage.com Designing contexts for the experience economy Sun, 03 Aug 2008 01:56:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Image via Wikipedia One of my all-time favorite bands, Counting Crows, have introduced a new way to experience their live performances. Beginning with their show on 7/28 in Charlotte, audio from every show will be available for download in both MP3 and Flac formats at Live Counting Crows. This idea seems like ... http://www.the4thstage.com/2008/08/02/a-new-way-to-experience-concerts/ Top 10 Apps Worth Installing Adobe Air For - excellent rundown of some of the best applications that have been developed for the Adobe Air platform so far. We may one day look back on these apps as the first of a new era of the internet...  (via Lifehacker) 280 Slides ... http://www.the4thstage.com/2008/06/20/links-for-the-week-of-june-21-2008/ Whatever Happened to UI Consistency? - Jeff Atwood at Coding Horror commenting on the sad state of UI consistency in Windows Vista, even as SP1 rolls out. Windows UX Taskforce - Digg style voting site reporting and prioritizing experience issues in Windows Related articles What Did Happen to UI Consistency? [via Zemanta] http://www.the4thstage.com/2008/06/07/links-for-the-week-of-june-7th-2008/ Back in the golden age of 1999, I had the good fortune to find a book by the name of The Experience Economy, which quickly became and remains to this day one of my all time favorites. The main premise of the book is that experiences have emerged as the ... http://www.the4thstage.com/2008/06/04/the-experience-economy-is-alive-well/ "Look for someone with girly smooth hands who gets to go to lunch whenever they want." -- the always quotable Merlin Mann http://www.the4thstage.com/2008/06/04/how-to-identify-a-knowledge-worker/ Akamai's State of the Internet Report - comprehensive report of Internet activity, including fastest/slowest connections by Country/State. Applying Divine Proportion to Your Web Designs - fantastic article on Smashing Magazine explaining how the use of the Divine Proportion and the Rule of Thirds can be used to create an effective, clean, ... http://www.the4thstage.com/2008/05/30/links-for-the-week-of-may-31-2008/ This morning, Peter Morville (of Information Architecture for the World Wide Web aka "The Polar Bear Book" and the equally outstanding "Ambient Findability") announced that he is in the process of working on a new book about Search Patterns. Peter gave the following presentation for the first time today ... http://www.the4thstage.com/2008/04/13/best-of-ia-summit-08-day-2/ There were some great presentations at the Information Architecture Summit today in Miami. My favorites, with links to slides: Jared Spool (User Interface Engineering) - "Journey to the Center of Design" Gene Smith (author of "Tagging: People-Powered Metadata for the Social Web) - "Tagging: Five Emerging Trends" Bryce Glass (Yahoo!) - "Designing ... http://www.the4thstage.com/2008/04/12/best-of-ia-summit-08-day-1/ Once again Alan Cooper takes complex product design and development subjects and refocuses the conversation in such a way that you're left thinking "why doesn't everyone else see the world this way?" (Full disclosure: I've been a customer and student of Cooper for the past three plus years In this keynote ... http://www.the4thstage.com/2008/04/12/alan-cooper-calls-interaction-designers-to-arms/