by Daniele Rossi | Jun 23, 2011 | creativity, social media, user experience
I just heard about Pottermore, a new website coming soon by J.K. Rowling which I can pretty much see as becoming a great case study in bringing reading to the digital world. That is, aside from just offering an ebook riddled with DRM. I was a Harry Potter fanatic back...
by Daniele Rossi | Jun 9, 2011 | comics, illustration, user experience
I recently relaunched my webcomic Superspud.com as a graphic blog (read: graphic journalism). My latest post reflects my frustration and utter bewilderment of the new UI for Skype 5.1 for Mac. In a nutshell, it’s unintuitive. I think the comic explains exactly...
by Daniele Rossi | May 27, 2011 | social media
Four years after my first attendance, I was finally able to get to Mesh, Canada’s two-day web conference. And I had a great time. I met some great new people, caught up with old friends and learned many, many new things. The keynotes were awesome and really...
by Daniele Rossi | Apr 22, 2011 | creativity, social media
No, not those angry birds. For the past four days, a robin has been repeatedly flying into my window. It would return back to a nearby tree and try again. Over and over. For hours. I’ve seen birds do something like this a few times years ago but never to my...
by Daniele Rossi | Apr 12, 2011 | social media
Social media provides excellent benefits in everything. Period. On the latest episode of my podcast, Stuttering is Cool, I interview four speech therapists who incorporate social media tools in their practice. My summary follows. I first speak with fellow Canadian,...
by Daniele Rossi | Apr 6, 2011 | social media, user experience
Last month, I blogged about the Longform storytelling in a short attention span world panel discussion. One item which still has me pondering today came from PBS documentary maker, Raney Aronson-Rath, who mentioned the future of documentaries is in extending them in...
by Daniele Rossi | Mar 18, 2011 | blog, comics
I jumped at the chance to see Joe Sacco speak at the Innis Town Hall last night. He was in town to talk about his journalism in comic book form. I’m trying not to use the term ‘graphic novel’ because he doesn’t like the term. And I agree. There...
by Daniele Rossi | Mar 17, 2011 | blog, creativity
Are we really living in a short attention span world? I’m convinced it’s really only a matter of context. I think this idea of shorter attention spans only relates to digital media. People still read long books which seem to be getting longer, we sit in...
by Daniele Rossi | Mar 16, 2011 | social media
Let’s look at the big picture by taking a step back and see that Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, Tumblr, Posterous, Vimeo, Foursquare, Instagram, Gowalla, GetGlue, MySpace, Buzz, DeviantART, Google Reader, Digg, Forrst, Livestream, dribbble, Reddit, Badoo,...
by Daniele Rossi | Mar 11, 2011 | user experience
Here it is. The most simple explanation of how to properly design a website* for the user. *by ‘website’ I also mean mobile site, of course.
