Momentum Design Lab http://momentumdesignlab.com User Experience Design and Development Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:23:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Add to Trip live on ReddiSetGo http://momentumdesignlab.com/2012/02/08/add-to-trip-live-on-reddisetgo/ http://momentumdesignlab.com/2012/02/08/add-to-trip-live-on-reddisetgo/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:31:08 +0000 admin http://momentumdesignlab.com/?p=2248 Our social travel platform we built Add to Trip is now powering the travel site ReddiSetGo.  You can see the full power of the UI widgets running on top of the Add to Trip API working on the ReddiSetGo site.

To put Add to Trip in perspective, our robust API and SDKs give the full power of other social travel apps such as Tripit, GoGoBot or gtrot to any travel brand.  In addition to the API and SDK’s, we’ve just released a set of free pre-built widgets which you can visually see here which instantly add social travel features to any site or app. Completely white label, the user interface design of these widgets is modern, easy to use and fit seamlessly into any brand.

If you’re a developer or budding travel startup and would like to see how our platform can help you get started, check out our developers resources, watch our demo video, or give it a test drive

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We’ve been working with the rock stars at Gracenote on their product demo that they’re showing off at CES 2012.  They’ve got the most insane music matching services in the business, which is probably why they power nearly everybody, and they have been a pleasure to work with.  Here’s the infamous DJ Jazzy Jeff checking out the Gracenote demo we helped build.

 

]]> http://momentumdesignlab.com/2012/01/11/gracenote-demo-ces-2012/feed/ 0 SaaShr.com releases new UI http://momentumdesignlab.com/2011/12/15/saashr-com-releases-new-ui/ http://momentumdesignlab.com/2011/12/15/saashr-com-releases-new-ui/#comments Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:47:46 +0000 stacy.la http://momentumdesignlab.com/?p=2156 SaaShr.com has released a new user interface for the company’s management platform with a more modern, simple and aesthetically pleasing visual experience. SaaS aimed to improve the user experience for existing community, while having an attractive demo for prospective licensees. Momentum worked closely with the SaaShr team to deliver an updated look and feel for their application, featuring updated navigation elements, customized colored themes, and new icons. We are excited to see it launch and to be a part of such a robust and useful product.

 

Read the official press release here

 

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Something we’ve been throwing around the office for a while, the absurdity of QR codes and especially how absurdly they’re being used.  For example, we get them in email signatures all the time.  Why?  Scott Stratten, president of UnMarketing, does a much more thorough job of lambasting how impractical this technology has become and how the viral spreading of marketing techniques makes it appear like the advertising industry is run by cattle rather than humans.

]]> http://momentumdesignlab.com/2011/12/04/the-problem-with-qr-codes/feed/ 0 SAP acquires SuccessFactors for $3.4 Billion http://momentumdesignlab.com/2011/12/03/sap-acquires-successfactors-for-3-4-billion/ http://momentumdesignlab.com/2011/12/03/sap-acquires-successfactors-for-3-4-billion/#comments Sat, 03 Dec 2011 20:32:29 +0000 admin http://momentumdesignlab.com/?p=2147 It’s about time.  We’ve worked with SuccessFactors for many years and are friends with many of the employees.  Many of our existing clients use SuccessFactors for their HR management needs, and we’ve always felt they were sitting on a platform that was way ahead of it’s time.  This is a sign of a clear shift of the older well established companies such as SAP having to pivot quickly in order to still remain relevant in today’s cloud based world.  Did we mention we’re also preferred vendors for SAP.  That’s a win win for everyone.

]]> http://momentumdesignlab.com/2011/12/03/sap-acquires-successfactors-for-3-4-billion/feed/ 0 Canadian business websites lose millions in bad usability http://momentumdesignlab.com/2011/12/03/canadian-business-websites-lose-millions-in-bad-usability/ http://momentumdesignlab.com/2011/12/03/canadian-business-websites-lose-millions-in-bad-usability/#comments Sat, 03 Dec 2011 20:28:15 +0000 admin http://momentumdesignlab.com/?p=2144 A great article from the Factor(e) design folks in Canada about their frustrations with small & medium size businesses in Canada not taking their websites seriously.  I see this as a global problem in many places I travel around the world.

I love this comment: ”Large, Canadian business are still fairly conservative entities. The idea of “online” and making money on it — is something these guys hear about from Financial Post on companies out in California.”

]]> http://momentumdesignlab.com/2011/12/03/canadian-business-websites-lose-millions-in-bad-usability/feed/ 0 Redesigning the Resume http://momentumdesignlab.com/2011/11/21/redesign-the-resume/ http://momentumdesignlab.com/2011/11/21/redesign-the-resume/#comments Tue, 22 Nov 2011 07:24:59 +0000 admin http://momentumdesignlab.com/?p=2093

 

What better way to represent yourself than through an info-graphic?
Here’s another new take on resumes from designer David Elgena

You can get your own info-graphic resume on graphicriver

]]> http://momentumdesignlab.com/2011/11/21/redesign-the-resume/feed/ 0 Asynchronous UI – The Future of Web Interfaces http://momentumdesignlab.com/2011/11/19/asynchronous-ui-the-future-of-web-interfaces/ http://momentumdesignlab.com/2011/11/19/asynchronous-ui-the-future-of-web-interfaces/#comments Sat, 19 Nov 2011 22:38:32 +0000 admin http://momentumdesignlab.com/?p=2077 Alex Macaw - Asynchronous UI

Great article from Alex Macaw on how to make the front-end reaction instant through a combination of oving state & view rendering to the client side, intelligently preloading data and asynchronous server communication.

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Live from SenchaCon… here’s the new Neptune theme that we worked with Sencha on.  Download now! http://t.co/JBnSC7eo

]]> http://momentumdesignlab.com/2011/10/25/extjs-4-1-preview-the-new-neptune-theme/feed/ 0 Yo Momma is on iTunes http://momentumdesignlab.com/2011/10/03/yo-momma-is-on-itunes/ http://momentumdesignlab.com/2011/10/03/yo-momma-is-on-itunes/#comments Mon, 03 Oct 2011 14:01:47 +0000 admin http://momentumdesignlab.com/?p=64 They say that in the future everyone will have their fifteen seconds of Apple iTunes fame… or something like that. Well that fifteen seconds happened today when our friend Stephanie at Rogue Paper informed us that our new Yo Momma Battle App was featured in the iTunes App Store as “New and Noteworthy”. When we saw that, we all got the “we are not worthy” feeling only then to be brought back to earth.

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