Author Archives: bensauer
My work featured on wireframes magazine
Jakub has just posted an item over at wireframes magazine about some html wireframes I developed using polypage. Say for example you want to show your wireframes to your client in the “logged out” and “first time visit” states, Polypage … Continue reading
Posted in software, ux, web development
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Selling software online? Make it cheaper.
Back in September I attended clearleft’s dconstruct conference. One presentation in the day really stuck out, and reviewing the slides again today I felt inspired to comment/echo one particular point. Joshua Porter used some psychology principles to examine how to … Continue reading
Workshop with Ellen de Vries: great copy and ideas in less than an hour….
So at the beginning of July I sat down with web copywriter Ellen de Vries to refine some copy for a project I’m working on (more on that later). She asked me a series of questions that we attempted to … Continue reading
Posted in marketing, media, web development
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Geek Habits for Non-Geeks Workshop v2 postscript
Last night was a lot of fun, thanks to everyone for coming to an indoor event when there was such lovely weather and a beach so close by! I am much happier with the results this time: the time I … Continue reading
Geek Habits For Non-Geeks v2: Thurs May 8th
Hello all you feedreaders (from the last workshop?) + site visitors, I’m repeating my workshop on Thursday May 8th at The Werks in Hove. Hopefully it will be much improved based on what I learned last time! Its been quite … Continue reading
Geek Habits for Non-Geeks: event postscript
Big thanks to everyone who came along last night: the weather was really dreadful (extra cake for you lot next time)! For those who attended: a PDF of my slides (9 mb), and the page of exercise links. I think … Continue reading
artmeddler… a work in progress
So an idea that Sophie and I have had bubbling away for quite some time is starting to get moving. We’re joined by Danny Hope of Hobo Internet in our efforts, who persuaded me over lunch that the key idea … Continue reading
Posted in art, culture
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digg vs. ‘old’ media
The recent riot over at digg got me thinking again about the role of the media in our society. The articles on digg.com only hit the front page if they’ve been submitted+voted there by the users. Digg presents quite a … Continue reading
Posted in media, politics
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Accidental manipulation of attention
A moment ago I visited boingboing.net (as I often do) and for the first time ever I noticed the top banner ad, instead of applying a mental blind spot like most users do. I was struck by why this happened, … Continue reading
Social Awareness, where’s our Local Awareness?
Even before the web was smacked sideways by the new generation of socially oriented websites, the academics were getting interested in how the web might affect us socially. I can’t find it right now (it was years ago), but a … Continue reading
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