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  • Referral traffic from social media has dropped

    I saw this Bufferapp article on declining social media traffic.

    We’ve lost nearly half our social referral traffic in the last year

    I say. No wonder. Everybody is online, creating tonnes of content. Most people are too busy to read, let alone follow so many data streams.

    Many web pages don’t get any traffic at all. A few sites get all the traffic.

    Interesting read. I recommend reading it.

    My tip: don’t share or comment on articles that you haven’t read. Even bots can do that. Be human.

    And. If you do like an article? Comment, share and write a blog post on it.

    If you’re on Facebook and want to see better content, I recommend following Robert Scoble’s advice. The filtering is improving. And this week’s announcement on Facebook Search means we may have a viable alternative to Google Search. At some point in the future.

    Lucky chiperoni.ch. It doesn’t need to grow traffic.

    Have a look at my photos on Flickr.

    walk this way

  • Notes and photos from #UXcampch

    Some notes and photos from Saturday’s UX camp in Zürich:

    Adrian Sameli took us thru the process of building infographics. His tip on tools to use: Excel and Adobe Illustrator. He tried one or two infographic tools but didn’t like them much. In the discussion we looked at d3js.org.

    d3js.org data-driven documents

    Next, I attended a session on atomic design. Design systems not pages.
    Developers need to agree early on with designers on the semantics of the smallest, small and medium building blocks. These then are used in templates to build pages.

    Brad. Frost. Who?

    Background reading: Atomic design by Brad Frost.

    The discussion after the presentation got straight to the daily challenges. Questions like

    • How do you get developers to use the existing pattern? Nobody reads documentation. In an ideal world, developer and designer sit in the same room and discuss the initial elements and define the markup. In real life the UX team may be much smaller than the developer team and might be geographically distributed, etc.
    • Is anybody using Pattern Lab in real-life projects? Very few projects get paid to build a pattern library. Pattern Lab is really more for larger projects due to the effort involved. How can this be improved?

    Next, I listened to Simone Reichlin talk about the RITE method vs traditional user tests.

    Main idea: Often you see some obvious problems in your UX design after your first or second test person. Instead of going thru the whole test with the remaining test participants, change the prototype with your improvement between tests. And then continue testing your changed prototype.
    Main requirement: Designer needs to watch the user test. This shortens discussion time afterwards.
    Tools used: Sketch and inVision.

    Don’t change too much. Follow Medlock’s classification.

    Want to try RITE? Start with the traditional method first. Only use RITE after you have gained some experience in carrying out user tests.

    Next:
    A very good session by Vincent van der Lubbe on creating space in conversations. And we even got a reference sheet to take home. The hard part is putting this into practise.

    listening to Vincent at @uxcampch

    Fidel Thomet presented his B.A. project, Flaneur.io. It’s a Chrome extension to capture digital findings in form of text fragments gathered while browsing the web.

    Information Flaneur = Flanieren in grossen Datenmengen

    We briefly looked at Marian Dörk’s PivotPaths. This podcast by datastori.es was recommended.

    Unknown, useless fact about me:
    Once upon a time, I had to write a uni term paper on Walter Benjamin and Paris in the 19th Century.

    My snapshots are on Flickr.

    Disclaimer:
    All mistakes are my own. Please let me know if I got something really wrong. I’m here to learn. These notes help me to reflect and learn.

  • #POSSE: A clickable demo of my simple #indieweb blog

    Here’s a simple example how you can publish your content on your own site and syndicate elsewhere (POSSE):

    1. I posted a boring flower snapshot into my self-hosted WordPress (WP) blog.
    2. WP posted the entry to Twitter using WP plugins Hum and Publicize
    3. One of my Twitter followers replied to my tweet.
    4. Using Webmention, the tweet showed up in my WP comment moderation loop.
    5. After I approved it, the tweet shows up as a comment in the corresponding WP entry.

    As you can see, there are some formatting issues with the emoticons and the image link isn’t displaying correctly.

    And to begin with I had some other WP plugins interfering with the Webmention plugin and no idea why it wasn’t working.

  • How Corporations are Deploying in the Collaborative Economy

    Can big brands learn from Uber, Kickstarter, Airbnb and the Maker Movement?

    via Study: How Corporations are Deploying in the Collaborative Economy | Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang | Digital Business.