Wednesday, September 25, 2013

[Personal UX/UI review] YouTube Pulse event

An afternoon at YouTube (YT) Pulse event


<definition: Pulse means a medium size YouTube event?^^

positive: cute Android characters; perhaps one of the reasons is to dismiss clients, advertisers and partners' any negative feelings towards Android platform>

<positive: simple registration booth design>

<issue: complicated route guideline

solution: make path intuitively understandable>

<positive: a good choice of small size event site>

<positive: giant infographics in entrance>

<issue: infographics is not well organized; hard to see why information is organized that way

solution: put a label on each infographics group e.g. device types, hours spent, locations used>

<positive (good approach!): some interesting hands-on activities to reflect one of the speakers' message (e.g. how-to video 13% of YT search; c.f. music video 53%, professional video 14%)>

<positive: intuitive floor guide>

<positive: good casting and storytelling<- how Crayon Pop has gained national if not global recognition; of course, the answer is a platform you know intimately>

Overall, the experience was 7/10. 

Monday, September 23, 2013

[Personal UX/UI review] a coffee shop's differentiation

Today as I was walking up a street near to work, I found this shop. 

Positive: neat idea to differentiate a coffee shop from other stores around it

Explanation: 1. Placed wooden stair-like and grass-like installment to differentiate the shop's front from others around it
2. Put beach chairs to generate comfy feeling 
3. Played songs that go along with the above setup

[Personal UX/UI review] Samsung smartphones and tablets battery indicator deesign

Happened to find battery GUI differences among Galaxy smartphones and tablet. 

Issue: [inconsistency] battery GUI

Solution: keep core GUI components consistent within all Samsung devices 

Lesson: [integration and consistency] small design differences when all add up, even small can make a powerful case

Sunday, September 22, 2013

[Personal UX/UI review] Line Camera

Positive: [convenience] reduce users' touches to find photos to edit

Comment: quite surprised to see a "Korean" app enhancing usability

[Personal UX/UI review] iOS 7's Volume image


Issue: this Volumn image blocks content behind
Solution: give the image a bit more transparency

Friday, April 12, 2013

[conference] Google Developers Conference- YouTube Platform Overview


주제
Google Developers Conference
- YouTube Platform Overview
장소
Posteel Tower 3rd floor
일시
2013 04 09 () 5:30PM~6:00PM
강사
Ikai Lan (NY Office) and others
주관
Google Korea
초점
일반 관계사에게 Google Play YouTube Platform에 대한 소개

I.       Why YouTube?
1.       Q3 2008-> Q3 2011 : mobile video watching 220% increase
1)      view counts- 1 billion+ /month
2)      watching hours- 4 billion+ /month
3)      uploads hours- 72+ /min
2.       3 ways to share - uploads, live, produced content
1)      e.g. uploads & produced content- Talking Tom
2)      e.g. uploads & live- Black Ops
3)      e.g. live- Red Bull's space jump

II.      Why YouTube APIs?
1.       Create contents- great to engage people
1)      e.g. create- WeVideo, Talking Tom
2.       Consume contents
1)      e.g. consume- Flipboard (plays YouTube inside the app), Band of the Day
3.       Analyze contents
1)      e.g. analyze- viewer information (location, length, demographics)
4.       Monetize contents

III.     YouTube APIs?
1.       Player API
2.       Data API
3.       Analytics API
4.       Livestream API

IV.    Reference
1.       developers.google.com/youtube
2.       youtube.com/dev
3.       google.com/+youtubedev


[conference] 인터넷 개방성 포럼 특강 : 클라우드 혁신과 보안


주제
인터넷 개방성 포럼 특강 : 클라우드 혁신과 보안
-       Is Cloud Computing the End of Security and Privacy as We Know It?
장소
Gangnam Finance Center 21st floor
일시
2013 04 04 () 7PM~9PM
강사
Eran Feigenbaum, 구글 엔터프라이즈 보안 총괄 (Director of Security Google Enterprise)
주관
Google Korea
초점
Cloud computing, security in the cloud

I.       Why Google Enterprise?
1.       Many Clients
1)      미국고객사- 100대 미국 대학 중 72개교에서 사용 (2012 9월 조사)
2)      한국고객사- POSCO, Chosun biz, Dong-A Pharm, Groupon Korea, Hyundai U&I, Samsung, Hyundai Motors, TMON, pantos logistics, Korea University, McDonalds, YG Entertainment
2.       Trends
1)      PrivacySecurity가 더욱 중요해짐
  Blogs- 200 blogs (10 years ago)--> 200 million blogs (today)
  YouTube Videos- 70 hours’ worth/1 min (today)
  Security Innovation: two step verification
2)      Competitors- Your competitors are moving to Cloud computing for efficiency and other benefits which reside in the cloud
3.       Benefit to Software Vendors
1)      Various OS- can focus on innovation and software is always up-to-date
4.       Economic Benefit
1)      Reduced IT Cost- lower IT costs with a 10 to 20% reduction being typical (IDC, 2012)
2)      Improved co-work efficiency- e.g. Delta Air Lines- decreased budget time by 30%

II.      What does cloud computing mean from a security perspective?
1.       Data safe on premise? - 60% of corporate data resides unprotected on PC desktops and laptops
2.       1 out of 10 laptop computers will be stolen within 12 months
3.       66% USB thumb drive lose (over 60% corporate data in them)-> PC stolen, I’m not worried

III.     IT manager's perspective: Why is security so tough?
1.       Patching problem server patch deploy 25 to 56 days on average to deploy an OS patch-> no server is needed.

IV.    Cloud server provider perspective
1.       Build, buy and pay for everything I own, security team, server, etc

V.      Can the cloud vendor do security better than you?
1.       Google- the biggest server manufacturer
1)      Server hardening- disabling unused items
2)      IT system fails. Google has over 300 security professionals in malware, drive-by download, etc.
3)      Works like a bank- instead of a person hiding his money in his attic, depositing money in banks can be more convenient and safer.
4)      Data storage- 3 copies of my email in 6 servers

VI.    How do you know if they are as good as the claim?
1.       3,000 new businesses added/day
2.       Different frameworks- CSA, ENISA, NIST, and many others (check out audit reports)

VII.   Incident response? ->Need to walk through security drill within your company
1.       Monitoring
2.       Proprietary change control software continually monitors
3.       24x7 security team
4.       Incident coordinator
5.       Incident remediation
6.       Incident notification- early detection through homogeneous servers matching Google's gold standard-> send alerts -> let the clients know if clients data is attacked

VIII.  Privacy?
1.       Who owns your data?-> You
2.       What can the data is used for?-> Your use
3.       Who has access to your data?-> You
4.       What laws govern the data?-> jurisdiction

IX.    Google protects your privacy externally (jurisdiction matters here)
1.       government transparency report- www.google.com/transparencyreport
2.       users information such as IP address or last log-in info can be opened

X.      참고
1.       Ask what my exit strategy is: how can I get my data out if I change my mind in the future?
2.       Cloud computing
1)      IaaS (amazon, ec2)- data patch
2)      PaaS (salesforce.com, google xxx)
3)      SaaS (RFP security)

XI.    Reference
1.       Good to know campaign- http://www.google.com/goodtoknow/
2.       Read- 구글을 가장 잘쓰는 직장인 되기 (http://goo.gl/p1BKk)
3.       구글 인터넷 개방성 포럼- https://sites.google.com/site/pressforumforit/home