The document discusses how emotional design can increase user engagement and satisfaction with digital products and services. It provides examples of how incorporating positive emotions like pleasure, humor, empathy and satisfaction into interfaces through visuals, sounds, and language can help users form emotional connections to brands and encourage continued use, participation and advocacy. The document advocates designing interfaces that are not only usable but also bring users joy in order to create the most effective emotional experiences.
Content Curation Hacks to Goose Your Content Marketing ROICurata
Pawan Deshpande, CEO of Curata shared these top tricks at #CMWorld 2016 to find, editorialize and share the most relevant content from around the web in the least amount of time. All marketers curate, some just do it better!
JESS3 Featured in Computer Arts for foursquare I VotedJESS3
JESS3 was featured in the September 2011 issue of Computer Arts Projects for our work with foursquare for the 2010 Elections. Together, we visualized checkins to polling locations across the United States in real-time by leveraging Google and Pew's data (via Voting Information Project) and foursquare's platform + community.
Our client, Eric Friedman of foursquare, shares the background to the project and the brief, while our Director of Information Design, Robin Richards, shares our approach and the project's outcome.
“Writing for Your Audience — The Message, the Words, the Plan” – Business Sen...Blend Interactive
Every word has an audience. And every audience has a message. Tying those three things together, however, is what takes the act of writing into something more strategic. This talk will touch on determining audiences and message, and then dive into some basics on how to write and plan effective web content that is both on point and on time.
Every 90 days, you'll find a new collection of favorite blogs, tools, events, and books. You get the best of it all in 1 slide deck to help you learn smarter, not work harder.
This deck includes 14 articles, 8 tools, 4 resources, 4 events, and 2 books. Complete with stand-out quotes, links to the original work, and easy-to-consume summaries, it'll make you look like the most well-read person in the office.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) doesn’t have to be a black art. It’s deceptively simple. Learn the basic and intermediate ways to increase your ranks in Google that the pros use, and you can too.
Content Curation Hacks to Goose Your Content Marketing ROICurata
Pawan Deshpande, CEO of Curata shared these top tricks at #CMWorld 2016 to find, editorialize and share the most relevant content from around the web in the least amount of time. All marketers curate, some just do it better!
JESS3 Featured in Computer Arts for foursquare I VotedJESS3
JESS3 was featured in the September 2011 issue of Computer Arts Projects for our work with foursquare for the 2010 Elections. Together, we visualized checkins to polling locations across the United States in real-time by leveraging Google and Pew's data (via Voting Information Project) and foursquare's platform + community.
Our client, Eric Friedman of foursquare, shares the background to the project and the brief, while our Director of Information Design, Robin Richards, shares our approach and the project's outcome.
“Writing for Your Audience — The Message, the Words, the Plan” – Business Sen...Blend Interactive
Every word has an audience. And every audience has a message. Tying those three things together, however, is what takes the act of writing into something more strategic. This talk will touch on determining audiences and message, and then dive into some basics on how to write and plan effective web content that is both on point and on time.
Every 90 days, you'll find a new collection of favorite blogs, tools, events, and books. You get the best of it all in 1 slide deck to help you learn smarter, not work harder.
This deck includes 14 articles, 8 tools, 4 resources, 4 events, and 2 books. Complete with stand-out quotes, links to the original work, and easy-to-consume summaries, it'll make you look like the most well-read person in the office.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) doesn’t have to be a black art. It’s deceptively simple. Learn the basic and intermediate ways to increase your ranks in Google that the pros use, and you can too.
This is my presentation from the indie biz chicks conference. I discuss the "why" in website - why it is more important now than ever before to have your own website, even if you are a micro or indie entrepreneur. I go into a little detail regarding content marketing and how a feature rich website can do a lot of the heavy lifting in driving traffic to your website.
Making your Wine Site or Blog "Search-Friendly"Doug Cook
This is a talk given by Doug Cook, founder of Able Grape, at the 2009 Wine Bloggers Conference.
In this talk I present a different view of search engine optimization for your wine blog or winery website. I discuss how people find information on the web, what the "long tail" means, and why you must understand it in order to connect with your potential audience. I define a notion of optimization that I call "search-friendliness," provide a basic overview of how to accomplish this, and outline how to be a good citizen in the search ecosystem - which ultimately means good business.
FUZE | National Forest Recreation Association Day 2Bryan Landaburu
FUZE Day 2 Presentation for the 2010 National Forest Recreation Association annual conference in Scottsdale, AZ. Day 1 focused on action plan development for the attendees who were considering relaunching their web marketing initiatives, namely their websites. Presentation covers basic project framework, approach, small business concepts, and web traffic drivers for small business. Part 2 of a 2 day program. Delivered by Bryan Landbauru, President of FUZE.
Learning to Love Humans: Emotional Interface DesignAarron Walter
Humans, though cute and cuddly, are not without their flaws, which makes it a challenge to design for them. By understanding how the wet, mushy processor works in these hairy little devils, you can design interfaces and web experiences that will have them hopelessly devoted to your brand. Aarron will introduce you to the emotional usability principle—a design axiom that identifies a strong connection between human emotion and perceived usability. Through real-world examples, you’ll learn practical interface design techniques that will make your sites and applications more engaging to the humans they serve.
We love stories, recognise patterns in fractions of a second and have a set of highly developed social behaviours. In "Persuasive Design" Mike will be running through a collection of these hard-wired influence points and exploring how they can be used in the design of products, interfaces and experiences.
Using Social Media Influencers for Brand AwarenessMuhammad Yasin
Detailed session at Blog Indiana 2012 on how to use social promotion and engagement of influencers to drive website traffic, brand awareness and social signals for seo. Examples included steps I took build a social network of over 200,000 people and expose over 6 million people to our brand in 12 months.
Why do people love snapchat?
MAU – 70 million
Frequency - 400 million snaps a day
Gender – 70% female
Geographic – Mostly US
Revenue – $0
Business Model – None
*Disclaimer* I love Snapchat, despite having only 5 or 10 friends using it. I get to stalk em whenever they update their profiles, and they get to share their most [intimate - icwhatudidthere] thoughts and e-motions. Kinda like Facebook – but cooler – as people would think.
InstaEngagement: Instagram in Advancement4Good.org
Instagram, a photo-sharing and photo-filtering app, has taken the mobile space by storm. Recently hitting over 100 million users, and experiencing a 1179% growth rate in the first 6 months since it's nearly billion dollar acquisition from social media giant Facebook, Instagram provides non-profits a perfect opportunity to connect with constituent and to collect unique content from their community's perspective. *This webinar will focus primarily in case use of Instagram in education, but provides lessons that all non-profits can apply.*
Doing customer development (and stop wasting your time)Hans van Gent
Why would you bother to talking to people while you actually could be building your product? Because everything you assume could be wrong. Time to validate those assumptions and start your business on the right track.
Commerce is Social: Connecting with and Converting Online ProspectsEric Weaver
Keynote from #MivaCon13 Extraordinary E-Commerce Conference in San Diego, March 8, 2013. Audience: e-commerce site owners generating around $500k in annual sales.
Followers of my presentations will recognize some oldie-but-goodie cases, but all the e-commerce stats are very recent (last 6-12 months).
This is my presentation from the indie biz chicks conference. I discuss the "why" in website - why it is more important now than ever before to have your own website, even if you are a micro or indie entrepreneur. I go into a little detail regarding content marketing and how a feature rich website can do a lot of the heavy lifting in driving traffic to your website.
Making your Wine Site or Blog "Search-Friendly"Doug Cook
This is a talk given by Doug Cook, founder of Able Grape, at the 2009 Wine Bloggers Conference.
In this talk I present a different view of search engine optimization for your wine blog or winery website. I discuss how people find information on the web, what the "long tail" means, and why you must understand it in order to connect with your potential audience. I define a notion of optimization that I call "search-friendliness," provide a basic overview of how to accomplish this, and outline how to be a good citizen in the search ecosystem - which ultimately means good business.
FUZE | National Forest Recreation Association Day 2Bryan Landaburu
FUZE Day 2 Presentation for the 2010 National Forest Recreation Association annual conference in Scottsdale, AZ. Day 1 focused on action plan development for the attendees who were considering relaunching their web marketing initiatives, namely their websites. Presentation covers basic project framework, approach, small business concepts, and web traffic drivers for small business. Part 2 of a 2 day program. Delivered by Bryan Landbauru, President of FUZE.
Learning to Love Humans: Emotional Interface DesignAarron Walter
Humans, though cute and cuddly, are not without their flaws, which makes it a challenge to design for them. By understanding how the wet, mushy processor works in these hairy little devils, you can design interfaces and web experiences that will have them hopelessly devoted to your brand. Aarron will introduce you to the emotional usability principle—a design axiom that identifies a strong connection between human emotion and perceived usability. Through real-world examples, you’ll learn practical interface design techniques that will make your sites and applications more engaging to the humans they serve.
We love stories, recognise patterns in fractions of a second and have a set of highly developed social behaviours. In "Persuasive Design" Mike will be running through a collection of these hard-wired influence points and exploring how they can be used in the design of products, interfaces and experiences.
Using Social Media Influencers for Brand AwarenessMuhammad Yasin
Detailed session at Blog Indiana 2012 on how to use social promotion and engagement of influencers to drive website traffic, brand awareness and social signals for seo. Examples included steps I took build a social network of over 200,000 people and expose over 6 million people to our brand in 12 months.
Why do people love snapchat?
MAU – 70 million
Frequency - 400 million snaps a day
Gender – 70% female
Geographic – Mostly US
Revenue – $0
Business Model – None
*Disclaimer* I love Snapchat, despite having only 5 or 10 friends using it. I get to stalk em whenever they update their profiles, and they get to share their most [intimate - icwhatudidthere] thoughts and e-motions. Kinda like Facebook – but cooler – as people would think.
InstaEngagement: Instagram in Advancement4Good.org
Instagram, a photo-sharing and photo-filtering app, has taken the mobile space by storm. Recently hitting over 100 million users, and experiencing a 1179% growth rate in the first 6 months since it's nearly billion dollar acquisition from social media giant Facebook, Instagram provides non-profits a perfect opportunity to connect with constituent and to collect unique content from their community's perspective. *This webinar will focus primarily in case use of Instagram in education, but provides lessons that all non-profits can apply.*
Doing customer development (and stop wasting your time)Hans van Gent
Why would you bother to talking to people while you actually could be building your product? Because everything you assume could be wrong. Time to validate those assumptions and start your business on the right track.
Commerce is Social: Connecting with and Converting Online ProspectsEric Weaver
Keynote from #MivaCon13 Extraordinary E-Commerce Conference in San Diego, March 8, 2013. Audience: e-commerce site owners generating around $500k in annual sales.
Followers of my presentations will recognize some oldie-but-goodie cases, but all the e-commerce stats are very recent (last 6-12 months).
Fan Engagement: The Why and the How.
When working across multiple digital platforms, especially with creative endeavors, branding is becoming increasingly important amid a sea of media.
Dream. Build. Connect.
Want to start telling the story of yourself, your business or your cause across social media? Not sure where to go first? Chances are everything you need is at your fingertips - you just have to see the story around you!
Brain Science and Websites: 6 Ways to Leverage Cognitive Biassemrush_webinars
Call it neuromarketing. Call it behavioral economics. Call it Jedi mind tricks. Whatever you call it: brain science and marketing go together. And anyone can learn how to do it. In this presentation, we’ll review the research, case studies and web marketing tactics that work with natural, human behavioral tendencies.
Herds, halos and the science of social proof
Context, contrast and color
Fear, loss and scarcity
Eye tracking, color and visual prominence
Writing copy for busy minds
We'll reveal secrets of the brain, behavior and marketing on the web. If there are humans in your target audience, this presentation is for you.
Tara Hunt - Your Social Media Strategy Wont Save YouCarsonified Team
Being friendly and helpful on Facebook and Twitter won't make your app succeed. In this valuable session, Tara will explain how to think 'customer centrically', put user happiness first, reward enthusiasts, learn not launch and raise whuffie. She'll also explain the difference between 'Influencers' and 'Enthusiasts' and why it's important to reach the latter. Don't miss it!
Couldn’t make it to SxSW Interactive this year? Don’t worry, the Social Media Club of Fort Worth has you covered! For our April speaker event, several SMCFW members who attended SxSW served as the presenters. Each speaker took five minutes to give their own mini presentation and talk to the group about their favorite SxSW session, speaker or conference experience.
Similar to Aarron Walter: Learning to Love Humans (Webdagene 2011) (20)
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
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apps look and sound. ”
- John Gruber, DaringFireball.net
47. “ A fantastic, fun, and
functional interface on a
seriously great app. ”
- 148apps.com
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emotional connection to our apps.
Most people don't have a love/joy for
software like geeks do. ”
- Mark Jardine, TapBots Designer
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when you send a tweet. Twitter is
fun all of a sudden! ”
- @thetalldesigner
53. “ Confession: sometimes I make too
long Feathers-tweets just to watch
the bird turn red. ”
- @evbjone
54. “ Before your application can create
an emotional relationship with the
user it must get the basics right. The
emotional relationship, the delight,
is what you layer on top of this base
usability and technical competency. ”
- Aral Balkan, designer of Feathers
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come from our competitors. It was really
depressing to see so much software
designed to remind people they’re making
databases in a windowless office and so we
immediately knew we wanted to go in the
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opposite direction.
- Kevin Hale, Wufoo
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and the little monkey in the corner
says "hey Kate, new haircut? !Muy
guapo!" how do they know?! ”
- @katemiss
78. “ Trust was the most critical barrier
for us to overcome with potential
users. It was an uphill battle raising
venture capital because investors
simply didn't think people would
ever share bank credentials. ”
- Jason Putorti
79. “ Trust is a gut feeling more than a
rational process, and visual design
affects emotions in a very powerful
way, perhaps more than any other
stimuli. ”
- Jason Putorti
92. “ Attractive things make people feel
good, which in turn makes them
think more creatively. How does
that make something easier to use?
Simple, by making it easier for
people to find solutions to the
problems they encounter. ”
- Donald Norman
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now. Ashamed of how many hours
I’ve spent. ”
- Paintbrush, forum user
118. “ So pleased to have found this
software. I’ve wanted it for a while
and was saving up. Now I can treat
myself to some of the other
software I’ve been trying during my
5 hour egg hunt. ”
- Jane Hasseldon, Facebook fan