Erietta Sapounakis

Product Development + UX | CX + Service Design

Notes on design, product, collaboration
and reports from industry meet-ups

  • Nicolas Hayek Tribute

    I worked for the Swatch Group many many years ago. I was already a watch obsessive and I loved Swatch. I was quite the tragic. So, it was sad to hear of the passing of Nicolas Hayek this week, credited with saving the entire Swiss watch industry.

  • Service Design Thinks and Drinks 4: What is Service Design?

    If you have not been, Service Design Drinks is a casual meet-up, where guest speakers present and take questions from the audience. It’s held regularly at the Trinity Bar in Surry Hills. The fourth event was held on 18 May and was attended by 30 or so user experience designers, including a team from Different. The…

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  • Designing for Touch Screens

    I was totally enamored by the Microsoft Surface at WebDU. Here is a mix of what I learnt, filmed and experienced. Touch Design Principles Shane Morris outlined some design prinicples when designing for the Surface, but many would apply to designing for smaller touch screen devices. Don’t deploy a desktop application to a new device,…

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  • WebDU 2010: Start-up, How to Get Going as a Web Entrepreneur

    Collis Ta’eed spoke at webDU a few years ago on how to start a web community. He should know, Collis founded the Envato network which publishes PSD Tuts, Vector Tuts, Active Tuts, Freelance Switch amongst other titles. It’s inspiring to hear about web success stories. The Envato network employs 25 people and attracts ‘a few million visitors a month’. Impressive. Often…

  • WebDU 2010: Flash highlights

    Adobe were a little self aware post Steve Jobs anti Flash rant but not defensive at this year’s webDU conference. Why? Because Flash continues to improve and there are few haters in the webDU crowd. Gone was the spiel about the quick uptake of flash and flash penetration in the market place. The emphasis this…

  • WebDU 2010: the year of touch

    I have been to 4 webDU conferences and this was the first year that I was not on the Daemon organising team. It felt strange to not have to do anything but enjoy myself, and that I did. In the Day 1 keynote Mike Chambers from Adobe came out at the gates in defense of…

  • Augmented Reality Changeroom Demo

    With only about 3% of online browsers turning into shoppers, augmented reality has the potential to shake up ecommerce by simulating a real life experience. Manoj Vekaria and Sushant Verma of Rocketboots were manning the desk in the sponsor’s corner at webDU. In this video they show me and some other onlookers their impressive prototype…

  • Geek Tees at webDU

    Related posts: WebDU 2012 Designing for Touch Screens WebDU 2010: Start-up, How to Get Going as a Web Entrepreneur WebDU 2010: Flash highlights WebDU 2010: the year of touch Augmented Reality Changeroom Demo