Ben Werdmuller

Month: June 2012

  • The brands I care about are all yelling at me

    Update: If you enjoyed this article, you should vote for this SXSW 2013 panel. It should be a thought-provoking conversation. Skype, a few weeks ago: “You should think of Conversation Ads as a way for Skype to generate fun interactivity between your circle of friends and family and the brands you care about. Ultimately, we […]

  • Screen real estate

    I’ve found that I work much better if I have two very large monitors – but because I travel a lot, I’m often constrained to my 15″ MacBook Pro screen. I’m not alone: Completely adjusted to working on large second screen for wireframes. Designing on 15″ MacBook Pro feels awkward. — Rebecca Cottrell (@rivalee) June […]

  • .clusterfuck

    Amazon has bid for .book and .author. Google has bid for .app and .love. Microsoft has bid for .docs and .live. American Express has bid for .open. Opening the top-level domain system is a great idea. There are just 22 generic top-level domains right now – .com, .org, .net and so on. (There are 280 […]

  • Off the hooks: user-centered development in a mobile-first world

    The following post contains my notes for a talk I gave at Over the Air 2012 at Bletchley Park on June 2nd, 2012. They build on my notes for a previous talk, Building the user-centered web. Desktop isn’t enough. For the last few years, I’ve been working on latakoo, a service that lets you share […]