user experience

Instagram's account switching: a pleasing attention to detail Members Public

So, we finally have it. Instagram now supports account switching [http://blog.instagram.com/post/138938416772/160208-accountswitching] from within the app. This is, of course, fantastic news for anyone who is managing a site’s Instagram account while trying to use the app for personal reasons, too. Up until now

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
design

Quartz head to the bottom for mobile navigation Members Public

Another day, another Quartz announcement, this time about their site design [http://qz.com/415916/whats-new-on-the-ever-evolving-qz-com/] (which is in continuous evolution): > Still, sometimes we make enough changes all at once that it’s worth pointing them out and, as we’ve done in the past, explaining our intent. There’

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
mobile

Brand content the user-hostile way Members Public

So, I know brand content is where it’s at right now and all, and that fashion companies are leading the way. But why on earth has Karen Millen chosen to present their’s in such an intensely user-hostile way [http://www.karenmillen.com/uncovered-magazine/content/fcp-content]?:Have these people

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
brand content

Unfocused, Cluttered and Confused Members Public

Say Media [http://saydaily.com/2012/03/this-is-the-golden-age-of-digital-media.html]: > Today’s digital publishers are forced to contend with the legacy systems put in place by both digital and print. The result is an experience that feels unfocused, cluttered and confused. In order to create a new standard in quality

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
digital journalism

Do you hate change? Members Public

So, I logged into Vimeo to upload something for my personal blog [http://adam.tinworth.org/2012/02/a-weekend-walk-along-shoreham-beach-threw-up-this-melancholy-sight-dozens-of-starfish-on-the-beach-amongst-empty-mussels-sh.html] , and was greeted with this: ![newvimeo.png](https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/02/newvimeo.png?resize=516%2C159) It’s part of a gradual switch

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
change

#dConstruct - Kelly Goto gets us to think contextually Members Public

[](http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2011/09/IMG_9214 - Version 2-2029.html)Are we going to spend the rat of our lives staring at our mobile screens? A babysitter spent the first half hour just texting and ignoring Goto’s kids. She bans texting, iPads et al

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
context

#likeminds - Delighting Users Immersive liveblog Members Public

(Liveblogging – prone to error, typos and inaccuracy. And possible bias in this session…) Starting the second day of Like Minds in the Delighting Users session, and feeling slightly suspicious, because I’ve just realised that it’s essentially a Windows Phone 7-derived session. That said, the new mobile OS has

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
design