WEP TECH

  If challenging the  status quo was easy, we’d see a lot more of it. In the world of smartphones, this means daring to think outside the rectangle, a form factor that has been the default for more than a decade and a half. Slowly but surely amid stagnant smartphone sales, companies have been testing the water. There have, in recent years, been a number of evolutionary dead ends. ZTE’s Axon M comes to mind. A valiant, if deeply flawed, attempt that was, for all intents and purposes, two smartphones stuck together. Samsung’s folding phones seemed destined for a similar fate early on. After a few generations, the company has turned things around, even if longevity and mainstream implications of both the line and the category broadly are still something of a question. I can genuinely say, for instance, that I’ve enjoyed my time with the Galaxy Z Flip 3. It works as intended, isn’t overly unwieldy like many of its folding brethren and is honestly the first foldable device I would ...

     I sell t-shirts on the Internet. I also hang out in a couple of groups for people who sell t-shirts on the Internet.          For  both these reasons, I’ve started to get quite a lot of friends requests from people who want to make money selling t-shirts on the Internet, and I don’t have time to help all those people with queries. However, for free and gratis, here’s how to make money online by selling t-shirts. 1. Design a shirt that people want to buy Look at news stories about shirts that sell, shirts you see people wearing, shirts you see in shops. Do not copy any of these shirts, but think about what works in terms of design, ideas, structure. Find a hobby, ideally one of your hobbies, that has few available shirts. Hint: look for hobbies where all the shirts say “I’d rather be pigeon-fancying” or “Keep calm and carry on pigeon-fancying” or “I’m a girl who loves pigeons” or anything else where you could put any hobby at all on the s...

Best and Worst UX of Online Clothing Stores   Imagine a scenario where a user is shopping online and stumbles across a product she likes, but the product’s description doesn’t tell her everything she needs to know before making a purchase (strike 1). To find out more, the user decides to reach out to customer service but can’t easily locate the contact information because it’s written in tiny font at the bottom of the page (strike 2). Eventually, she manages to send the company an email but is met with generic automated responses that do nothing but frustrate her more (strike 3, you’re out!). This is just one example of many online retail horror stories uncovered in a recent study conducted by Userlytics. In the study, we asked 14 frequent online shoppers about their worst and best experiences shopping for clothes online. Users were tasked to discuss their experiences in detail, show us via screen-share why the experiences were good or bad, and lastly completed a brief set of ratin...