Samir Fors

I'm Samir Fors MSc Media Technology HCI Usability lead, creating cool stuff @ Klarna on a quest for world domination

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Great run-through of design process

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Just rediscovered this service we built a while back. Get videos to your Spotify songs!

SpotMyVideo -> http://spotmyvideo.com

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Click and grow. Tillsätt batterier och vatten, få basilika. Dag 1. (Taken with instagram)

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New projekt… Pictures & places (Taken with instagram)

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Yeah!

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The Spotify Play Button is pretty nice!

https://developer.spotify.com/technologies/spotify-play-button/

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In the classic study students found a boring task more interesting if they were paid less to take part. Our unconscious reasons like this: if I didn't do it for money, then I must have done it because it was interesting. As if by magic, a boring task becomes more interesting because otherwise I can't explain my behaviour.

The mind is interesting.

How The Mind Really Works: 10 Counterintuitive Psychology Studies — PsyBlog

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The ghosts of decisions past.

I think it's easily happened that a decision get's lost in the sea of decisions and stays there through iterations without anyone knowing why. And it's fairly easy to conclude that if you made the decision once, there must have been a reason for it. Keeping better track of the whys can go a long way in identifying when assumptions have changed during the development process, leaving you with new conditions to make a better decision!

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Colllor - When setting a base color for a color palette, Colllor will change the favicon to match your selection. Pretty neat. 

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(via Good designers turn their inspirations into reality | inspireUX – User Experience quotes and articles to inspire and connect the UX community)

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"I would envisage that with user research framed and phrased in the right way, observation, interviews and actual behavioural data, it would be possible to extract heuristics in a form which are useful for selecting design patterns to apply. While in the workshop we ‘decomposed’ existing systems without doing any real user research, doing this alongside would enable the heuristics extracted to be compared and discrepancies investigated and resolved. The redesigned system could thus match much better the heuristics being followed by users, or, if necessary, help to shift those heuristics to more appropriate ones."

(via If… | Design with Intent)

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He closed all 7,100 Starbucks stores in the United States for three hours on a Tuesday evening, “to conduct a nationwide hands-on espresso training experience” for Starbucks employees.

Highlighted by Samir Fors in 27 Powers of Persuasion: Simple Strategies to Seduce Audiences & Win Allies by Lynette Padwa, Chris St. Hilaire

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This is the essence of intuitive heuristics: when faced with a difficult question, we often answer an easier one instead, usually without noticing the substitution.

Highlighted by Samir Fors in Thinking, Fast and Slow by Kahneman, Daniel

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People tend to assess the relative importance of issues by the ease with which they are retrieved from memory—and this is largely determined by the extent of coverage in the media.

Highlighted by Samir Fors in Thinking, Fast and Slow by Kahneman, Daniel

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Many of us spontaneously anticipate how friends and colleagues will evaluate our choices; the quality and content of these anticipated judgments therefore matters.

Highlighted by Samir Fors in Thinking, Fast and Slow by Kahneman, Daniel

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They sure look good..!

(via Retro Speakers Find Style -- and Big Sound -- in Simplicity)

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This post is an overview of all the statistics for Little Big Details in 2011. We figured there are no reasons why we shouldn’t make these public, so here you go! We hope these stats will help you get a better understanding of what kinds of people are interested in UI design and how they browse the web. Besides that, the stats above will hopefully give you an insight of what the traffic of a design blog looks like.

We have a lot of other readers who follow us through different channels:

Tumblr followers: 32290

RSS readers: 15076

Twitter followers: 4682

Facebook: 529

A big thank you goes out to the folks at tumblr for making this possible and giving us excellent support throughout the year.

Let us know in the comments if you’d like to see any other statistics or have any questions.

P.S. We’re launching our startup Gidsy in San Francisco in 48 hours, after this we will start posting here again!

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"40% of dining consumers use forsquare to check in to a restaurant"..

(via How to Influence Purchasing Decisions On The Web [INFOGRAPHIC])