Cofactors Blog

November 2010

Using Social Forces to Influence Behavior

Interesting example of using social forces to influence behavior and communicating these forces through form design.

On UX and Manipulation (and Peter Merholz)

A response to @peterme on the subject of UX and manipulation.

Little Things Mean a Lot

Talk about constant, subtle refinement! Google modifies the Gmail homepage. http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/gmail-homepage-makeover.html

Got my new iPad stand last night…..sooooo awesome.

This just in from Catalyst mobile design expert Chris Calabrese:
Got my new iPad stand last night…..sooooo awesome.
This gorgeous iPad stand was hand crafted without the aid of electric tools in the Provence of Baldwin, Long Island. Scraps of wood found in a cellar were assembled with six nails and then roughly sanded to give this [...]