Google just released a new ‘reading level filter‘ in the Advanced Search section of their search – the part that probably only librarians actually regularly use. I’ve run it on a few of our domains with interesting results. Here’s our main powerhousemuseum.com. After seeing that I went off and ran it over a slew of [...]
Entries Tagged as 'User experience'
On augmented reality (again) – time with UAR, Layar, Streetmuseum & the CBA
October 26th, 2010 3 Comments
Jasper Visser from the Nationaal Historisch Museum in the Netherlands has nailed some of the problems with augmented reality in his recent blogpost – ‘Charming tour guide vs mobile 3D AR‘. Jasper compares the analogue world experience of a guided architectural tour with the digital experience of using the Netherlands Architecture Institute’s UAR application to [...]
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Sydney Design has an iPhone app
July 28th, 2010 Comments Off
Everyone is doing apps. It might not be the decision of choice for us ‘web people’ – our friends at the Brooklyn have recently agonised over similar decisions – but in the end actual user behaviour wins out in the short term over what we might consider best practice. (Of course, modelling on actual user [...]
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A little mobile data
June 20th, 2010 3 Comments
I’m a last minute addition to an AIMIA forum on Tuesday morning looking at the Digital Customer Experience. The forum is focussing primarily on mobile. In prepping the slides looking at in-museum and out-museum mobile experiences, I’ve dug up a little data that you may be intrigued by. If anything it reflects the type of [...]
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Tracking what gets ‘used’
April 30th, 2010 Comments Off
Theres been a fair bit of excitement around the traps today about the revealing of Amazon’s tracking of highlighting on their Kindle devices. In fact this sort of interaction tracking has been going on on the web for quite a while – but the Kindle example is one of the first where this data is [...]
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First impression of the iPad (and museum possibilities)
April 26th, 2010 4 Comments
Here’s something I wrote about the iPad on the flight back from Museums and the Web 2010. I promise a full conference rundown later. – I’ve just spent about 24 hours sitting in a confined airline seat playing with an iPad. I picked up one in New York on the day before flying out and [...]
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Why Flickr Commons? (and why Wikimedia Commons is very different)
January 25th, 2010 8 Comments
The Powerhouse is coming up to the 2nd anniversary of our joining the Commons on Flickr. Back when we joined there was only the Library of Congress and we trusted that we were making the correct decision back then. (I’ll be blogging an interview with Paula Bray around the time of the anniversary.) A lot [...]
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“Let’s make more crowns”, or, the danger of not looking closely at your web metrics
January 9th, 2010 5 Comments
Happy new year everyone. I’ve got a bit of a backlog of posts but there is an ulterior motive for getting this out the door – and, well, it has been more than 18 months since I should have written about this. Over on our children’s website – Play at Powerhouse – we have a [...]
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The 2 in 100 who might matter most – your core web audience
December 4th, 2009 7 Comments
As some of you know I’ve been doing a series of deep dive web metrics workshops for various institutions around the world in the last couple of months and one thing I’ve been interested in is estimating the size of a ‘core museum website audience’. Whilst we all like the big figures of casual visitors [...]
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Five rules for museum content (via Amsterdam)
October 29th, 2009 4 Comments
I’m just back from presenting at the New Museum Lab event in Amsterdam run by the Nationaal Historisch Museum. My talk was titled ‘Digital Effects: Content, Communities and the Museum DNA’ and whilst I won’t be publishing the slides, one thing that seemed to be of interest to a lot of people was this simple [...]
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