Designing great products on templated platforms is hard – launching HBO GO on Roku
HBO GO was recently launched on Roku, and when my team and I at Huge approached designing for the Roku platform, we had one simple goal – make it the best looking app on Roku, period. This proved to be a harder challenge than we thought it would be, given the tight limitations of the […]
Is The “Smart TV” Revolution Finally Here?
We’ve been hearing a lot of about TV this past year. Whether it’s “cutting the cord“, or “over-the-top services“, or a zillion other buzz phrases, you can’t read tech press without speculation about the future of connected-TVs. For all the buzz, so far there’s been little advancement. If you’ve been following such developments as CableLabs […]
Data Portability Wars – Facebook vs Google
A war is on to control your personal data. Cookies all over the net are learning as much about you as possible – for better and for worse – but an even bigger war is looming as companies like Facebook place strict limitations on your ability to control what you do with your own personal […]
How Twitter and The Music Industry are the Same
It was reported today that according to a study by the USC Center for the Digital Future that zero – yes zero – people would pay to use Twitter. Jeffrey Cole, the director of the Center for the Digital Future, says, “Such an extreme finding that produced a zero response underscores the difficulty of getting […]
Viacom Pulls Colbert & Stewart from Hulu – Bad Move?
The stories are flowing about Viacom’s decision to pull Colbert & Stewart from Hulu, and as you’d expect the response has been pretty polarizing. Comments and responses to posts about the decision reflect the type of consumer reaction you’d imagine – anger, frustration, dismay, etc. – while business press has been more forgiving and focused […]