We all have moments where there is a little voice in our heads that sounds loud and clear and tells us exactly what to do, but sometimes that voice isn’t so clear and we get confused.
How does it work?
The Herman’s Head App, let’s you record messages to your future self, and after a minimal customization screen, it would play those voice recordings during the day, when the headphone are on
For Example: “Don’t listen to them” , “Give him a hug”, “She is your friend”, “Smile” , “Just ask her!”…
The best thing is the social part of the app, which lets you be in someone else’s head for the day! You can choose to listen to your friends or someone else’s inner voice recordings or simply choose from the app’s Personalties Library
“Just LIKE this post, it will make you feel good”
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Google+ most promising unique feature is its glorified Circles.
What are Circles? Circles are based on the idea that we have various people in our life with whom we communicate differently, so it would be better if we could separate our conversations by separating them into Circles. Got it? Good. Let’s continue.
We all agree that Circles make a smart and logical point and are something we all very much need, and if we need it, then so does Facebook.
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Here’s what facebook should do:
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Step 1: Change the Sharing Rules
Facebook Groups are a 3 way sharing street:
1| What you share is seen by all the group
2 | What someone in the group shares, is seen by you
3 | What someone in the group shares, is seen by all
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Google+ Circles are a two way sharing street:
1 | What you share is seen by all the group
2 | What someone in the group shares, is seen by you
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mmm… do you see the difference? look hard… there it is! #3.
To make a Facebook Group into a Circle we need to leave out sharing rule #3:
” 3 | What someone in the group shares is seen by all “
Step 2: From Lists to Circle Groups
To Present this new Group Type to the world, we can use something that people who use Facebook are already familiar with – Lists.
We don’t really use lists, that’s because they only have sharing rule #2 -
” 2 | What someone in the group share, is seen by you “
So, we need to add to lists, sharing rule #1 -
“1 | What you share is seen by all the group”
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Final Step: A Facebook Circle
There you have it, a Facebook Circle made out of existing Facebook bits and pieces,
Ready to take Google back to square one.
But before everything returns to normal, Facebook must do one more thing, in the words of chriscrocker:
“Leave The Chat Bar Alone!”
Ok, this one is a really simple idea, or maybe it’s only a marketing thought…
Take a normal sized cartoon milk box and cut it in half vertically, your new box is narrow and sexy.
I Believe that the way the product looks like, projects on the cosutmer beliefs and expectations ftom the product.
So a slim and sexy milk box will make me feel i will be slim and sexy if drink this milk!
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Disclaimer and closing thoughts
of course it will have low-fat milk as well.
What other products will benefit from a serious diet?
Apps started mainly for personal computers, recently they invaded the mobile
industry, in devices such as the iPhone and other smartpones.
They are fun and useful, in order to really get the most from your app, it should
take advantages of the device uniq features such as the accelerometer
and GPS on mobile phones, on a mp3 player it will be accessing the the
songs and play times etc…
Today, mobile devices comes with an SDK/API allowing developers to create these
apps as a standard, other devices such as a refrigerator, oven, dishwasher or your
car are fully controlled by the manufactures. If every device has different
characteristics he can offer, let’s open all of our devices to developers to create
customized brilliant apps,that the manufacture never even dreamed of!
How does it work?
Every digital device has a small computer running it, that computer runs
some sort of an OS. Give developers an API for the device that will allow them
to access data and operate it. The user will control the device from a touch screen
or by an app on his mobile device.
Examples:
- Oven – Cook programs, schedule on/off …
- Fridge - Lock after 8:00 pm, lock with password, change temp, check milk date, count times opening door…
- Dishwasher - Washing programs, water used and general usage statistics,single glass app.
- Car – Speed limit alert , GPS notifications, mechanic test, driving tips, camera control, the car office…
- Coffee machine – Illustrate with foam, mix blends, coffee programs, filter levels, usage stat…
What else…
Last night i saw an ad with a phone number that i wanted to remember.
It was something like 012-2233321, i noticed the pattern of
– low number – high number -low number, immediately i saw a visual
representation of it in my mind, something like a wave, easier to describe
as a graph.
So… if it worked for that number, it should be fun and cool to create
such a graph for every phone number and see how it looks…
maybe add it to your business card or use it on adds and use an app
to analyse the matching number.
How a about your phone number? how does it look?
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Listen up, all you diet lovers.
Number one reason for getting fat is…
Yep! Eating.
Most of our eating starts by opening the fridge
door, so to start with that case, how about limiting
the amount of times you can open the fridge a day.
How does it work?
1.Each time you open the fridge door, a counter will show you, how
many times you got left opening it again.
2.When the counter hit zero, the fridge internal lock will
lock the door and will reopen it according to your program.
3.This can be a daily, hourly or any other program.
Bon Appétit!
Software costs money, the more professional a software is , the more it costs.
Oh and even when you do purchase one, you need to purchase a separate
license for each machine running it.
At School, the library, your local printer or any other place with computers,
you can find computers that are ready to use and have useful software
installed on them, such as Adobe Photoshop/ illustrator, Microsoft office,
Maya for 3d design and more…
Usually you pay in some way for the time you’re using those computers
and when your not using them, you don’t – you go home.
So the idea is to share licenses with other people, just like we are
already doing in the offline world.
How Does it work?
Business side:
you setup a computer running multiple virtual machines.
on each machine you buy the license a software you wish to offer to your customers
when a customer wants to use your services he logs in and directed to a free computer.
Customer side:
Download a special software
Login and you will be connected to a remote machine.
on that machine you can find all the software / OS /you need.
you work as if you are working on your computer -you can even
use your private folder to store your work.
you pay for time usage .
you’re software is always updated.
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Browsers copied default mainstream programs UI and placed
the file menu as the top bar, followed by an icon navigation
menu with an address bar, the lovable favorite menu and
other annoying toolbars.
We have to admit that Chrome did a nice job by understanding
that the file menu is rarely accessed and when it does it is
mostly by an advanced user, so it would be easier for the user to
hide all those feature in 1 or 2 icons that will show them on demand.
Safari, like with all mac software insist on placing
the file menu in the OS top bar.
One big similarity with all browsers – Chrome, FireFox, IE , Safari etc…
They all place their User Interface at the top of their browsers!
Why this is wrong?
– Usually this UI takes up – 100 to 400+ Pixels easily
(not taking into account annoying toolbars…)
- It simply clashes with the websites design, when the eye
starts parsing what it See’s, it can’t simply ignore the huge
ugly menus.
- The new king of screen format is 16:9, the good old 4:3 is long dead.
When 4:3 was the king, sites and content adjusted themself to it,
but now days, content from video to website are taking advantage
of the wide screen, not to long ago most of the content were designed
to fit 800 by 600 resolution for worse case scenario.
Meaning: Today, there is much more space on the side for UI then ontop!
How does it work?
– All of the browser tabs are on the side of the browser(Right or Left)
- Address bar appears as you insert a new tab – long as any address bar.
- the user scrolls a clean and quite screen focusing entirely on
the page, and enjoying the benefits of this windscreen screen
Mathematics is great, it can even be fun.
One thing is sure, the way we interface with it, the tools we have are kinda stayed the same since they invented them – numbers , graphs etc…
How does it work?
What if the graphs AXIS them-self would also be dynamic like the graph itself?
How would that effect the results and information?
How about 3 axis? to be honest, i’m just playing around with the idea…
