Recently the National Science Foundation released a long document reporting the results of a survey of American attitudes towards and knowledge of science. The whole report is called SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING INDICATORS 2014. It includes 600 pages of text and over 900 additional pages of graphs and tables and such. The whole report received some […]
Do you like to wait? I don’t mean the kind of waiting where you go off and do something else, knowing that sooner or later some promised event will come to pass. I mean the kind of waiting where that is what you’re doing. Sitting there, thinking about the passage of time. Waiting. Probably not. […]
In an earlier post, we talked about the concept of dark patterns. A dark pattern is a navigation or action path that leads a user to a choice that doesn’t really benefit him or her, but seems to benefit the site or app owner. Another recent example really illustrates this process. Recently EA released a […]
Today is Facebook’s 10th Birthday. To celebrate, we are covering some of the more interesting aspects of the now-ubiquitous social network. Teens have NOT abandoned Facebook Some media reports have been reporting that teens are abandoning Facebook “in droves.” There are some studies that suggest this, and the teens give for their waning interest in […]
There are a lot of bad habits that creep upon me when I don’t pay attention. I start staying up late, eating crap food, and let clutter pile up around me. Professionally, I’ve noticed that we all often fall back on building for ourselves. I don’t know anyone in the field who hasn’t studied, talked […]
The Federal government interaction with citizens online has taken a couple big hits recently. One was the NSA scandal, which has hopefully led to a discussion of privacy versus Government surveillance. The other was the problematic launch of Healthcare.gov. Addressing the second problem, the Atlantic published an article on Estonia’s more tech-savvy government. According to […]
Many companies hire firms to do their search engine optimization, then ignore the process. I’ve talked to several clients who have someone doing something mysterious that is supposed to be helping them get better rankings on search engines. Usually, when I take a look at the analytics, the results aren’t there. SEO isn’t magic, and […]
If you frequent the technology blogs and websites you probably saw a report, recently, telling us that an army of smart refrigerators had been taken over and were now working in the service of evil. A closer read might tell you that the actual story is just about a bot-net, this time one which included […]
2013 was a big year for Mobility Labs. We grew significantly and took on much bigger and more challenging projects. There were also several major technology stories last year; some of them have permanently changed the technology landscape, others merely predict major changes to come. Here are our picks for the top four Mobility Labs […]
“ninety percent of everything is crap” –Sturgeon’s Revelation A recent thread on Reddit asked why so many new marketing managers start by redesigning the website. The person asking the question implied that it was mostly a big splash activity that disrupted perfectly functional activities and rarely led to a good result. Considering that the website […]