Javier Cañada's blog as part of the Programa Vostok
Articles clasified as "New Services"
Go back to the homepageThis is Orange-Cosmo (technical name: UniPo, Cosmo Knots-Series 3), one brave traveler ready to cruise the universe in the quest for adventure and beauty. It is now part of the crew at the Vostok Spaceship:
Orange-Cosmo comes from Smupf, a beautiful store of vinyl toys where there sure is something cute for your next gift, something that will stand on the owner’s table and say “hey” every morning.
Silverback is already out. What is special about it? Well, it’s basically a software to merge the captured interaction of a user on the screen with the recording of his face, all in one screen for easier test usability documentation.
On the typical usability test set-up you have the usual screen pointing to users’ face and also some camtasia-like software for recording what goes on the screen. Then you dream of merging it together to create a killer DVD for your client but actually never do so because of the time it would take to review both tapes, digitalise and do the necessary video edition.
I am a big fan of contextualised user testing: doing the testing as close to the real user environment as possible. This really makes it easier. Taking advantage of the Mac computer which usually has an embeded webcam, makes the test way less intimidating for the user.
The solution is so clever I wonder why nobody did it before. Congrats to the guys at Clearleft. I may use it soon.
I just found out that the guys at Unvlog have a tumblelog, which is nice. Some say that an English version of their service is on its way, almost here.
By the way, did I post this video already?
Man, you gotta love these guys!
I just found Tumblr and automatically felt in love with it. The concept is simple, almost like a maoist cultural revolution: back to the roots, back to the original values. Tumblr is a tool for creating blogs the way they they were back in 1999: just simple posts on reflections and findings, short stuff.
The admin interface, being a derivation of such a simple concept, is necessarily beautiful:
And the result, in terms of appearence, could be something like this.
I love such a fundamentalist approach to web applications .
Congratulations to the people at Tumblr and good luck.
PS: Tumblr domain ends with .net. You gotta love such details!
Well, 11870.com finally launched. Those who know me are already aware that I have been in the position of design director for this project, together with Nacho Puell until very recently.
The service is intended to work as a social bookmarking and commenting tool for real-life businesses and services. I guess you could call it a real-life del.icio.us.
I could say many nice things about 11870 but since I’m defenitely biased I better let you inform your own opinion and let some time pass and see how it behaves. Just one detail before I shup up: being a Spanish service as it is, yesterday it made to the first place on Technorati (ain’t that amazing?).
I hope we soon have the english version up and running.
