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Death to Complexity: How we Simplified Advanced Search

Disclaimer: these features are in QA and not yet released.

Considering the nature of people search, filtering by parameters other than first and last name is crucial. ‘John Smith’ doesn’t really help you find who you’re looking for, but a 36 year old John Smith in Pasadena, CA, related to a Susan is damn specific, and will inform you quickly if we have the data you want.

Old (left) and new (right)

Hidden ➞ Visible

Our Advanced Search (AS) was hard to find. Small blue text beneath the map read ‘Show All Filters,’ which was an imperfect solution to the requirement that we maintain a list of clickable states (for SEO reasons), and that list be visible “above the fold”. The states are, in a sense, filters, but they are very specific and essentially a dead end without other filters.

We moved AS into a dedicated module which is always visible on desktop, and has a floating button on mobile. This provided obvious, persistent access to our most powerful search tool. Mobile search became a full-screen takeover, with the understanding that users would be in a binary situation: modifying query parameters, or browsing results. Supporting both on a small screen is futile.

New explicit behavior

Implicit ➞ Explicit

We abandoned the expectation that users are experts. Anyone should be able to figure out how to use AS, even if it’s their first time visiting.

We added an explicit title that explains what AS does. An added benefit is that it provides additional visual differentiation for that section in the left panel.

We removed the behavior that would submit the form when users stopped typing, or tabbed/clicked to a new input. Now nothing changes until the user explicitly clicks “Search Spokeo” or hits Enter.

Clicking an age range used to toggle and submit immediately. No longer! Click ages on and off to your heart’s content before hitting that submit button.

Added bonus: the locations list got a title that explains its value.

Old (left) and new (right)

Wall ➞ Sections

Opening the filters was overwhelming! Scanning the inputs was nearly impossible. Location inputs are directly related to each other, as are relative first/last name, but Phone and Email inputs were adjacent and independent.

Separating AS into logical sections fixed these problems and reduced the cognitive work for users. Each section can be considered independently, instead of the form appearing as a daunting task. Phone and Email suddenly make more sense in the context of “Contact info.”

Old (left) and new (right)

Ambiguous ➞ Guided

The City, State input was confusing because once a State was entered, users didn’t know they could edit it to enter a City, State combination. Users could also enter a City, State combo that returned zero results, leading to an empty state.

We changed these to native dropdowns, where the list of states only reflects states with results, and the city dropdown is only available once a state is chosen. The city dropdown also updates whenever a new state is chosen, and only provides available cities from the chosen state.

We removed the Street input, which required too-accurate, and often unavailable, information.

Old (left) and new (right)

Cramped ➞ Rows

Street and City, State inputs were originally adjacent to follow the design pattern of the following inputs, not because those particular parameters should logically be side by side. In fact, for most forms (think shopping checkout) they’re most commonly placed on multiple lines. “Street” is also ambiguous, because we were actually expecting a full address, not just a street name.

Phone and Email being adjacent was a form-over-function design choice, which we sought to remedy. Relative first and last name kinda makes sense, but there’s no strong reason for it.

Now, each input gets its own row. Simple, effective, and visually less oppressive. All sections being simultaneously opened is an unlikely case, and ultimately the user’s decision. Fortunately, this flexible design allows this behavior without any negative consequences. We don’t make assumptions about how they will use Advanced Search.

Old (left) and new (right)

Mobile behavior

A persistent problem we’ve had to deal with is maintaining crucial functionality in a left panel which disappears on mobile. Having the left panel is a hard product requirement, and we discovered an elegant solution to provide access to the Advanced Search panel on mobile.

Previously, the Advanced Search panel was always open, and appeared before the results list. Users who didn’t scroll down wouldn’t know that they could just browse, if they had no more information to provide.

By providing a floating button at the bottom of the page, we allow users to browse, and access filters at any point in their browsing experience. For example, if they scroll through 30 results and realize their search is futile, they can quickly access Advanced Search and refine their query.

General related cleanup

We added filter “chips” beneath the primary page title. These reflect the exact query that produce the results, and allow an easy way to remove any given parameter.

Our data shows that the map isn’t engaged with, but having it present is a strict product requirement. We reduced the size, providing more space for relevant content/tools.

The left panel width was flexible, with a hard minimum at 330px. Why ever allow it to take up more space, if everything fits and works at the smaller size? From now on it’s always narrow.

For SEO reasons, we must have a clickable list of locations. However, that list doesn’t have to be so prominent. We modified our React component to only show the first 10 locations, with an option for the user to ‘show more.’

On the horizon/what we’d like to do in the future

First and last name should not be required to search. Finding a person should be initiated with any available information (e.g. relative and phone number).

Allow entering a city without a state/

Mixed content list, where we can show name, address, social, phone, and historical records all in one list, with options to toggle returned types.

from uxdesign.cc – User Experience Design – Medium https://uxdesign.cc/death-to-complexity-how-we-simplified-advanced-search-a9ab2940acf0?source=rss—-138adf9c44c—4

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New Cut Stone Tables Encased in Resin Mimic an Ocean Reef

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Furniture designer Alexandre Chapelin (previously) wows us again with this new pair of tables that mimic a cross-section of an underwater reef. The Saint Martin-based artist uses natural stone encased in a translucent blue resin to “bring the ocean into your living room.” You can see more views of the new tables on Instagram. (via Colossal Submissions)

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from Colossal http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2016/08/new-cut-stone-tables-encased-in-resin-mimic-an-ocean-reef/

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Why Understanding Startup History is a Competitive Advantage

I met an entrepreneur last week with an amazing command of technology history. He spoke about the way the Xerox Alto has influenced graphical design over the past forty years. I learned a lot. For this first computer’s monitor has a portrait orientation, not a landscape orientation? His knowledge of history provides him a huge competitive advantage because he understands why things have evolved a certain way and the assumptions that underpinned previous decisions.

I remember when I started at Google, I had lots of ideas about how to improve things, and I made many naive suggestions. I had a vision for how how email should evolve and Marissa Mayer sent me to meet a few people within the company. One engineering leader patiently listened to all the ideas I spewed. When I had finished, he asked me a question. “Why do you think your ideas haven’t been implemented before? Do you think it’s because you’re the first person with the idea or could it be another reason?” And he was right. I thought, vaingloriously, that I had been the first one with the idea.

He wasn’t discouraging me from ideating or promoting my ideas. Rather, he was inviting me to understand the history and the context for why things are the way they are today.

When we diligenced Looker, I only really understood Lloyd’s ingenuity when we spoke to industry experts who shared the industry’s history. They explained traditional business intelligence systems had been designed when storing one gigabyte cost $10,000 . The system architects of the day designed their systems assuming storage was prohibitively expensive. Today, it costs about a cent.

The fundamental cost assumption critical to the system design is no longer valid. Lloyd recognized that this key tenet of BI system design had become outdated and architected a new system that capitalized on this change.

That’s the benefit of knowing and understanding history: understanding the assumptions that led to the status quo and being able to seize the opportunity when one of those assumptions no longer holds.

from on Tomasz Tunguz http://www.tomtunguz.com/technology-history/

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The 8 Best Subscription Box Services for Men

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from Style – Esquire http://www.esquire.com/style/advice/g2912/best-subscription-boxes-for-men/

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Ever Wonder How Spotify Discover Weekly Works? Data Science

New music is everywhere. Hundreds if not thousands of new albums are released each week between major labels, mid-level subsidiaries, independent shops, and droves of label-less hopefuls. So with all those sweet new tunes out there, how do you dig through the dreck and find what sings to your soul?

Music is a deeply personal experience, and describing what you like or dislike about a particular song or artist can sometimes be frustratingly difficult. This can make finding new music difficult, and discovering hidden gems near impossible.

The answer? Spotify Discover Weekly. As veteran Spotify users know, Discover Weekly is a curated playlist of 30 songs ranging from new releases to deep cuts, personalized just for you. But how does it work? Data science.

“Recommendation is a really common problem for data scientists,” said Lucas Ramadan, a student in GalvanizeU’s data science master’s program. “The most common technique used for recommendation is called collaborative filtering.”

Recommendation engines have become commonplace in our daily lives. Netflix uses them to recommend new movies and TV shows we might like, while Amazon uses them to turn shoppers on to new products. The trick to collaborative filtering is that it recommends new things based on similarity between users, not between items.

In the case of Spotify, that means a huge database filled with everything that users have already listened to, where the rows are filled with users, and the columns are all the songs each user has listened to. A collaborative filtering algorithm finds users that are similar to each other, based upon their usage—the songs in common they have listened to—and then recommends the songs that only one person has listened to to the other.

But collaborative filtering isn’t the only thing responsible for setting you up with that hot new M83 track. Spotify discover actually uses what’s known as an ensemble method—a collection of models of which collaborative filtering is a member of.

“A big problem for collaborative filtering is what’s called the ‘cold start problem,’ which is when you’re starting a new product and you have no user data,” Ramadan said. For Spotify, this manifests when you have a new user who hasn’t listened to very much yet, as well as when you have an obscure, unpopular, or new song that not many people have listened to yet.

The data flow of Spotify Discover Weekly. [Image via Spotify]

Spotify wants to be able to recommend these new songs (and deep cuts) so to get around the cold start problem, it uses what’s called convolutional neural networks to actually analyze the songs themselves.

“The convolutional neural network is run over the acoustics of a song itself and analyzed to determine songs that have similar acoustic patterns,” Ramadan said.

A third method used is a form of natural language processing. In natural language processing, there’s a technique called Word2Vec, which takes words and encodes them into a mathematical representation—a vector. In these mathematical representations, vectors with a similar shape would equate to words with a similar meaning. Basically, it’s mathematical representation of the implicit associations and relationships between words that we know to be true in everyday speech.

What Spotify does is very similar to Word2Vec. It takes playlists and treats them as a paragraph or big block of text, and treats each song in the playlist as an individual word. This results in vector representations of songs that can be used to determine two pieces of music that are similar. As such, Spotify is able to determine which songs are similar to each other, thus enabling it to tackle the cold start problem and recommend songs with very few plays.

One of the things that makes Discover so good is that it employs a technique called outlier detection to differentiate things you actually like. Outlier detection is commonly used in financial security—it’s what banks and credit card companies use to detect fraudulent charges—but it also has uses in recommendation engines.

Essentially, outlier detection is used to determine if a particular usage—that is, listening to a song—is part of a normal pattern of behavior or not. This way, if you usually only listen to classic rock and ’90s alternative, your Discover Weekly playlist won’t get filled up with pop hits when your little brother plays Justin Bieber one time.

“Now, if you keep listening to Bieber 50-50 with other stuff, then it will start to recommend songs similar to Bieber,” Ramadan said. “The idea is that it initially flags it as an outlier and largely ignore it, only adding it to your recommendations if you continue that usage pattern.”

With all these algorithms working together, it’s no wonder that Discover Weekly is a hit. The general sentiment seen on places such as Twitter, as well as feedback collected by Spotify itself, suggests that people are very pleased with the 30 new songs recommended each week.

And if not? Well, all you can blame is the data.

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from Galvanize http://www.galvanize.com/blog/spotify-discover-weekly-data-science/

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Four Things Learned from a Design Critique with Facebook

Share your designs and ideas with others verbally.

The benefit of sharing your designs and ideas verbally is that it forces you to analyze your decisions on the spot. Doing so shouldn’t be a difficult task when you’ve spent enough time mapping out the reasoning behind your decisions. However, it’s when it does become difficult that areas requiring additional processing are revealed.

For instance, at the start of our critique session, the team asked me to provide context for my design. This included background on what problem I was trying to solve, who I was solving it for, and how my product would act as a solution. Simple right?

To my surprise, I could sense that my thoughts were scattered as I initially spoke. There were some ideas that I had difficulty expressing eloquently and some questions that I simply did not have a fleshed out answer to. However, as more questions were asked and I heard my own responses, things began to click. Questions I had no clear answer to in the beginning became obvious. I was able to reconcile pieces of information that appeared to be unrelated to form a greater understanding and ultimately fill in missing gaps that would have otherwise gone unnoticed.

Speaking out loud really does make all the difference. It brings forward your conscious and even subconscious thoughts that were stored in the back of your head and places them before for you, making it easier to organize. Things become unclouded, you begin making new connections, and you’re able to reorient yourself towards designing a better product.

Closing Thoughts

Facebook is doing something great here with these open design critiques. It’s not everyday that you see such a renowned group reaching out to the community so openly and honestly.

Having the opportunity to collaborate with some of the best designers in the industry has been an invaluable experience. I was able to gain insight into how critiques are carried out in a professional setting and have been able to transfer what I have learned into leading my own design critiques at my current internship. On top of that, it has helped me improve my design process and has overall made me into a significantly more aware designer.

To my understanding, Facebook plans to continue their open design critiques. Based on my positive experience, I would highly recommend anyone considering this to submit their designs, especially if they are someone just getting into product design as I was. I understand that doing so could be a daunting task, but believe me, it is well beyond worth it. These designers I have had the pleasure connecting with have been some of the most genuine and considerate individuals I have ever met. They want to help the design community, so let them!

I hope my honest reflection on my critique session with Facebook provided helpful advice and encourages everyone to continue sharing and learning from one another. I certainly still have a lot more to learn, but I look forward to using what I have gained from this experience as I move forward in my future growth and development as a designer.

from uxdesign.cc – User Experience Design – Medium https://uxdesign.cc/four-things-learned-from-a-design-critique-with-facebook-c72c14b985a8?source=rss—-138adf9c44c—4

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Jerry Seinfeld’s 12 unconventional rules for doing the best work of your life

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To make you laugh, a comedian has to convince you that their punchline is believable. Jerry Seinfeld is the master. He makes millions not only believe his punchline but say, “I can’t believe I never put it like that.”

He takes you there. He describes exactly how you feel, and he makes it all very funny. This is his craft. He’s a master technician. A true master of his domain. And the lessons he shares about his work are universal. It doesn’t matter if you’re a designer or a comedian. A custodian or a CEO. His approach will help you create the best work of your life.

Here’s Jerry Seinfeld’s 12 rules for doing your best work:

  1. Find the thing people want you to spend a lot of time on wastefully.
    The amount of time Jerry spends thinking about what most of us consider trivial things is staggering. But he finds his best work comes when he’s wasting a lot of time on stupid things. The more stupid, the better he feels about it. Your work should feel unreasonable for anyone else but you. You should spend time on details that others don’t see.

  2. Every year, get rid of the bottom 10–20% of your work.
    Jerry makes his work keep getting better by getting rid of the bottom 10% every year. This means that every 4–5 years he has a whole new act. And it continues to evolve forever. Your work should grow with you. You should constantly be looking to improve. Start with what you consider the bottom 10%. Never settle.

  3. Time your work perfectly.
    Jerry methodically calculates timing in his work. He likes the first thing he says in a joke to be funny right away and for the funniest part of a joke to always come at the end. How our work is experienced through time is often forgotten. Think about how you can not only deliver your best work but also deliver it at the right time.


    4. “Every year, get rid of the bottom 10–20% of your work.”


  4. Connect good ideas tightly until you have a smooth whole.
    Jerry weaves his jokes together as tightly and seamlessly as possible. He relates it to a jigsaw puzzle—shaving seconds off jokes and counting syllables—to make sure his next piece fits just right. Are you making sure your next piece is perfectly tailored to follow your last?

  5. Just try to be one of the people you look up to.
    Jerry always wanted to be like the comedians he grew up watching. Instead of shying away from admiration, he was proud of this attitude that was a part of his success. Pick the top masters in your field, and follow their example. 
    “Once I stepped on stage for the first time, that’s it. I’m now one of those guys.”

  6. Make your work keep resurfacing in people’s brains. 
    Jerry’s jokes go deep into your brain and keep coming back. He picks common topics that he feels have a special twist and tries to plant that twist into his work. If you don’t feel something that’s unexplainable about your work, nobody else will either.
    “When I hear a good bit, I think about it constantly. There’s some bits I heard over 10 years ago that I still think about at least once a month.”


    7. “Connect good ideas tightly until you have a smooth whole.”

  7. Find the vessel that gives you the best chance.
    You might have wondered why Jerry doesn’t do movies. He thinks the size of that content doesn’t lends itself to great comedy. He knows the limitations of his craft and he tailors his work to it. Find the shape that suits your work and gives you the best chance.
    “To me, the funniest things are shorter, so I think with TV series or Comedians in Cars, I have a better chance of making you laugh.”

  8. Never stop practicing.
    Ever hear a joke and tell it to every person in your office? The last few recipients always hear the best version and laugh the most. Why? Practice. When you practice something a lot, a nerve pathway in your brain expands to contain more information. As soon as you stop practicing, the pathway begins to shrink back down. Jerry continues to practice his material in front of small crowds before going on tour.
    “That changed my life. I used to wonder, ‘Why am I doing these sets, getting on a stage? Don’t I know how to do this already?’ The answer is no.”

  9. Work should feel generous.
    When you’re doing your best work, it’s an act of generosity. It makes people’s lives better. Keep that in perspective—it’s essential to a long life in your craft. 
    “If you’re doing it for them you’ll be fine. If you’re doing it for you, you’ll have problems. They’ll know it, feel it, and they won’t like it. When you’re making people laugh you feel like you’ve done a nice thing. You come off feeling much more like you gave something than if you got something.”

  10. Find the torture you’re comfortable with.
    Jerry keeps doing standup. It’s not because he enjoys it. In fact, it’s torture. That’s why a lot of comedians stop. But Jerry hasn’t. He’s decided to feel comfortable with the torture because it makes his work better. Instead of trying to avoid all unpleasantness, seek the right amount of it in your work.
    “Your blessing in life is when you find the torture you’re comfortable with. That’s marriage, it’s kids, its work, its exercise. Find the torture you’re comfortable with and you’ll do well. It’s no different than when you’re 30 minutes into a workout. You’re okay. You don’t wanna wake up early, you don’t wanna get dressed, you don’t want to go to work, but once you’re there, it’s okay. Once you get going, it’s fine. That’s life. You master that and you’ve mastered life.”


    11. “Find the torture you’re comfortable with.”

  11. Trudge your ass in.
    Jerry believes writer’s block is a phony, made-up excuse for not doing your work. The way to be better at comedy is to create better jokes and the way to create better jokes is to write every day. It’s the same for you.
    “I realized construction workers don’t want to go back to work after lunch. But they’re going. That’s their job. If they can exhibit that level of dedication for that job I should be able to do the same.”

  12. Bust your ass, pay attention, and fall in love.
    Only good can come from working as hard as you can. People don’t absorb enough of the world around them, despite the fact that you can learn everything from what’s around you. We don’t stop to say how great something is. Stop and take that moment because it’s not always great. Fall in love when it is.

Want to read about Jerry’s formula for accomplishing anything you want in life? Check that out on Robert’s website, Let’s Workshop.

This post was originally published on Medium.


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Apple Acquires Personal Health Data Startup Gliimpse

Apple’s ambitions in the health sector continue to expand, with its digital health team making its first known acquisition—personal health data startup Gliimpse, Fast Company has learned.

Silicon Valley-based Gliimpse has built a personal health data platform that enables any American to collect, personalize, and share a picture of their health data. The company was started in 2013, and funded by serial entrepreneur Anil Sethi, who has spent the past decade working with health startups, after taking his company Sequoia Software public in 2000. He got his start as a systems engineer at Apple in the late 1980s.

The acquisition happened earlier this year, but Apple has been characteristically quiet about it. The company has now confirmed the purchase, saying: “Apple buys smaller technology companies from time to time, and we generally do not discuss our purpose or plans.”

According to Sethi’s LinkedIn page, Gliimpse—like many startups—was born of a personal need. Sethi says that he’s followed his sister through her battle with breast cancer and discovered firsthand how challenging it is to acquire and manage your personal health data. Sethi writes:

As a consumer of healthcare, I leave behind a bread-crumb-trail of medical info wherever I’ve been seen. But, I’m unable to easily access or share my own data. Obamacare is one of several forcing functions federally mandating physicians and hospitals give us our data: meds, labs, allergies . . .you get the idea. However, there’s no single Electronic Health Record that all physicians use, sigh. Worse, there isn’t even a common file format across a 1000+ systems.

The acquisition will bolster Apple’s efforts in digital health. In recent years, Apple has delved into the sector with a range of services (HealthKit, CareKit, and ResearchKit) that allow patients, clinicians, and researchers to access important health and wellness data via a range of mobile devices. That’s in line with Gliimpse’s mission of uniting disparate streams of health information.

What stands out about the deal is that Gliimpse is intended for patients with diseases like cancer and diabetes. Apple recently hired a top pediatric endocrinologist who developed a HealthKit app for teens with Type 1 diabetes, signaling an increased interest in applications for chronically ill users.

It’s unlikely that this acquisition will bring Apple’s health technologies under the purview of federal regulators. CEO Tim Cook recently told Fast Company in an interview that he sees a major business opportunity for the company in the non-regulated side of health care: “So if you don’t care about reimbursement, which we have the privilege of doing, that may even make the smartphone market look small.”

It’s hard to tell how Apple will use the technology—in previous cases, the technology it has acquired from another company often ends up looking very different when it finally makes it into a product.

So far, the acquisition has not been announced on LinkedIn, or on the company’s website.

from Co.Labs http://www.fastcompany.com/3062865/tim-cooks-apple/apple-acquires-personal-health-data-startup-gliimpse?partner=rss

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MIT shows off a smart tattoo that can turn your skin into a touchpad

With DuoSkin, wearables are no longer just an accessory. They become part of your skin.

The MIT Media Lab and Microsoft Research set out to create on-skin user interfaces using gold leaf, which is commonly found in craft stores, as a conductor. Piggybacking on the trend in body-art and metallic jewelry-like temporary tattoos, the team decided to repurpose gold leaf because it is “robust to movements and skin deformations during motion…[and] both workable and aesthetic in appearance.” The smart tattoos, outlined in a paper that will be presented at the International Symposium on Wearable Computers 2016, look like fashion statements but they include other materials and electrical components that make the tattoos interactive.

The tattoos can turn into an interface that can be used, for example, as a trackpad or a button to remotely control your phone. Alternatively, they can track and show you information about yourself. For example, by including thermochromic displays that change color in reaction to heat, the tattoos can show you your body temperature.

A third possible function is wireless communication. The tattoo could include an NFC (near field communications) tag, an electrical component that includes small microchips to store data that can be read by phones or other NFC devices nearby. In the near future, the technology could serve as a substitute for identification, subway cards, and even movie tickets, DuoSkin’s lead researcher Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao said in an interview with Quartz.

Kao calls DuoSkin a “project” and not, as you might expect, a product or prototype. The team hopes that others will read their research and use the information as a basis to create their own personalized on-skin wearables.

In theory, the process is simple. First, you sketch the circuitry with a graphic design software. Then, you have to create stencils of the circuitry by applying a layer of vinyl film on thin temporary tattoo paper and cut it with an electronic cutter. After that, you layer the conductive gold leaf on top with spray adhesives. The next step is mounting the electronics. The DuoSkin device is planted on the user’s skin like a regular temporary tattoo through water-transfer: apply the tattoo to your skin, press down with a damp cloth, peel off the backing paper, and then remove it, leaving the tattoo behind.

DuoSkin fabrication process
DuoSkin fabrication process (Microsoft Media/MIT Media Lab)

Kao says anyone can replicate the process for around $175—$150 to buy a craft electronic cutter from Amazon and another $10 each for the gold leaf and the temporary tattoo paper. That’s a steep price for one temporary tattoo that can only be worn for up to a full day, but it’s sort of scalable: after the electronic cutter has been purchased, each subsequent tattoo will cost less and less.

Although this isn’t the first time researchers have tried to use the skin as a touchscreen, previous iterations have proved to be expensive and required a device to project an interface onto the skin. Other innovations that have attempted to bring electronics to temporary tattoo-style applications include UV detectors and blood alcohol measurements but no technology has been as simple and affordable as DuoSkin.

Not everyone is going to be rushing to read through a scientific paper in order to design their own device, of course, but Kao believes there is commercial potential here, too. “There’s definitely some people who are more maker-type personalities but there’s of course people who would prefer not to do so [themselves],” Kao told Quartz. “We see this developing as a business model.” She thinks users might well be willing to pay a fee at “temporary tattoo parlors” where someone else could custom-design the product.

from Technology – Quartz http://qz.com/759572/smart-tattoo-turns-your-skin-into-a-touchpad-and-stores-data-on-microchips/

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Snapchat to Buy Vurb for More Than $100 Million

Snapchat is tiptoeing into search.

The company is acquiring recommendation app Vurb for around $110 million plus additional team retention payouts totaling nearly as much, according to a person familiar with the deal.

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from The Information https://www.theinformation.com/snapchat-to-buy-vurb-for-more-than-100-million

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