Curiosity is one of the most underrated phenomena in the world. It’s ironic that people aren’t more curious about curiosity. It’s a powerful thing. For example, if you ever wondered if someone is attracted to you, the answer lies in curiosity. If someone asks personal questions about your past, your plans, your likes and dislikes, […]

Continue Reading: Scott Adams on Curiosity

How much do avatars influence our behavior?

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If you sync seamlessly across devices, people will love you for it.

Continue Reading: The Most Important Feature of a Multi-Device Web: Syncing

A new Flickr group helps archive examples of microcopy.

Continue Reading: Looking for examples of microcopy

It depends, of course, on your definition of success.

Continue Reading: Is Twitter Successful?

How Fanfeedr’s intro page does well to communicate the value of the service.

Continue Reading: Communicating Value through Cause & Effect on Fanfeedr

In which I describe how we discovered the broadcast stream message feature in Socialcast.

Continue Reading: Feature Development in Action: Broadcast Stream Messages in Socialcast

I recently ran across an interesting way to qualify people using sign-up forms at monotask.com.

Continue Reading: Using your Sign-up form as a Qualifier

Two apps, Posterous and SignApp, have a novel way to communicate how easy it is to start using their product. I call it the strikethrough method.

Continue Reading: No Sign-up Necessary (the strikethrough method)

Here is the slide deck from a talk I gave last week at Delve, a two-day masterclass held in Brooklyn, NY.

Continue Reading: Designing for Social Traction (slide deck)