Digital personal assistants like Amazon’s Alexa are growing in popularity. With a simple voice command, these assistants can do things like play music, find products, operate smart home devices, and much more. With Amazon Alexa skills, users are able to add a wide range of functions to their device. Alexa skills are essentially apps that can be added to the digital personal assistant. You have skills for gam Read more
“Can I get a light?” Most smokers are happy to oblige to the request. But when smokers in Thailand were asked this question, their responses were negative. “I’m not giving it to you,” said one smoker. “Cigarettes contain poison,” responded another. “They drill a hole in your throat for cancer. Aren’t you afraid of surgery?” lectured a third. Smoking makes yo Read more
Happy Fourth of July! America is a truly a great nation and a land of opportunity despite its many faults! Sometimes I forget this. Warren Buffett likes to say that in spite of his success ($89 billion net worth), he has no reason to act puffed up because he won the "ovarian lottery". First, he was born at a time and place (America) where a mind like his commands extraordinary financial rewards! As Read more
Image courtesy of UX Collective Last year researchers at Princeton and the University of Chicago published the results of a study on so called “dark patterns”. Dark patterns are tactics online businesses use to manipulate users to do things that will make the business more money. For example, email capture popups that cannot be minimized or recurring billing schemes that are nearly impossible to can Read more