Category Archives: user interface

Color Psych Infographic

Written by Peter. Posted on February 10, 2011. Filed under advertising, brand, business, consumer, design, interactive, internet, trend, user interface. Comments Off.
Colors mean something.
I love me some infographics, and love me some pop psychology.  Hey, best of both worlds.  Click the image a few times to zoom to full size.

Mobile Brand Loyalty

Written by Peter. Posted on June 25, 2010. Filed under advertising, brand, business, consumer, design, flash, interactive, internet, technology, trend, user interface. No comments.
Mobile Brand Loyalty
A survey by Piper Jaffray yesterday reveals that most early iPhone 4 buyers were upgrading from previous iPhones — and remaining loyal to Apple — and that very few were switching to AT&T from other carriers. Specifically, here are highlights from Piper analyst Gene Munster’s note this morning: 77% of iPhone 4 buyers polled in [...]

Hello Thelonius!

Written by Peter. Posted on June 18, 2010. Filed under annunciation, business, consumer, design, interactive, internet, projects, technology, trend, user interface, work. No comments.
Hello Thelonius!
Pleased to say that this blog has been updated to WordPress 3 – ‘Thelonius”.  So far so good.  We’re going to get the Annunciation Interactive site updated soon as well.  From what I’m seeing, WP3 continues the evolution of WordPress toward a more general content manager versus its blog-centric roots…

HTML5

Written by Peter. Posted on June 9, 2010. Filed under annunciation, business, design, flash, interactive, internet, technology, trend, user interface. No comments.
HTML5
Very cool infographic breaking down the advances pending in html5 as it is rolled out.  Good stuff.

Speed Testing.

Written by Peter. Posted on June 3, 2010. Filed under annunciation, business, design, interactive, internet, technology, user interface. No comments.
Speed Testing.
I’m such an idiot – just realized that Firebug has built-in speed testing.  That would’ve come in handy.

Flash Wars.

Written by Peter. Posted on May 17, 2010. Filed under advertising, annunciation, brand, business, consumer, design, flash, interactive, internet, pranks, technology, trend, user interface, work. No comments.
Flash Wars.
Kind of funny back & forth this past week from Apple and Adobe.  Adobe apparently debuted a strange passive-aggressive ‘We Heart Apple’ campaign – while conducting a flame war with Steve Jobs et al.  Apple’s (apparently fake) response is below.  Heh.

DMC New Orleans

Written by Peter. Posted on April 12, 2010. Filed under kids, orleans, user interface. No comments.
DMC New Orleans
I’ve always been a bit of a turntablism geek, and hope to get down to the Hookah Club for this national, umm, battle.  Regardless, some of the older championships have been pretty insane.

Square Coke Box.

Written by Peter. Posted on March 28, 2010. Filed under advertising, brand, business, consumer, design, food, trend, user interface. No comments.
Square Coke Box.
Really neat packaging design concepts, apparently from a freshman student.  Good article here.

Crack Lock.

Written by Peter. Posted on February 18, 2010. Filed under consumer, design, guerrilla, pranks, user interface. No comments.
Crack Lock.
I haven’t actually tried this yet, but I’ve always been intrigued by locks and their vulnerabilities.  This diagram purports that any combination lock can be cracked relatively quickly with an applied process.  Hmmm.

State of the Web.

Written by Peter. Posted on February 3, 2010. Filed under advertising, annunciation, brand, business, consumer, interactive, internet, technology, trend, user interface. No comments.
State_of_The_Internet
Great infographic re: web usage and demographic stats from focus.com.