Archive for month: June, 2010

Redesign in 20 minutes (21) – Sportingbet.com’s iPhone & Android page

On Sportingbet you can use your iPhone and Android phone to place bets. They have optimized their site for the phones. The problem is getting started! You have to go too many steps and get an SMS to get started. It could work much simpler! Today Image 1. Steps today to get started When you [...]

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Paying attention to details is important! Start customizing your content!

I enjoy playing casino online and do it a few times a week on a number of different sites. When I come to a new portal to play I always get frustrated by the “Download casino” link. The reason for this is that the link almost every time download a exe-file to my computer. That [...]

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888 takes a step in the right direction by entering the social gaming space!

Today I read that 888 is buying assets from Real Dice, a social games developing company. This is very exciting news because I believe that in the future social games will be a very important part of igaming, and it looks like 888 is taking a big step in that direction. A player wants to [...]

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Gaming Portals of the Future workshops open for registration!

The 1-day workshops, Gaming Portals of the Future, running in September and October: Stockholm: September 28th London: October 3rd are now open for registrations. It doesn’t matter if  you work as a product owner, product manager, designer, programmer or something else, this workshop is for you! It will be a day where you will learn [...]

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Running your own operation gives you an advantage! NYX Interactive is doing the right thing!

NYX Interactive has acquired Cashball Ltd, a bingo operator, from Bonnier Group. It is a good move since every game developer needs to be in close to the actual players. NYX Interactive will by running their own operation be able to try out new features and approaches much easier than if they had to do [...]

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Do World Cup Campaign Sites reach their business goals?

The World Cup starts in a few days. I’m really looking forward to it, it is going to be great! Many igaming portals have released “Campaign sites” related to the World Cup. I’ve looked at four of them: Betfair Gamebookers Sportingbet Unibet They are all a different in what they they want the player to [...]

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Use your visitor information to personalize your gaming portal. An example on how PaddyPower could do it!

PaddyPower’s “Paddy’s Toolbar” feature caught my interest the other day. I continued to click on the link to get more information about it and got to the second page with more information regarding it. It all looked good and I clicked on the download link “Click to download”. I got very disappointed when I got [...]

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Redesign in 20 minutes (20) – Register for Sit & Go Tournaments at Full Tilt Poker

I enjoy playing Sit & Go Tournaments and I do it on a few different poker sites, Full Tilt and PokerStars are among the ones I visit the most. One thing that annoys me big time is when the tournament gets full just when I try to register for it. In this redesign I’ll make [...]

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Wish I could attend EGR Live

EGR Live is a free conference and exhibition taking place in London in a few weeks. The conference is what interest me the most and a few sessions are really something I would like to attend. Sessions of interests Yahoo Research: Understanding the online gambler How the online gaming industry is going mainstream Spotlight on [...]

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UXiGaming – 1 year today!

Categories:User Experience

A year goes by really fast and the 1st of June last year I posted my first blog post here on UXiGaming :) It’s been a year with a total of 121 posts and 19 Redesign in 20 minutes posts. As you can see in the image above I’ve gotten visitors from all over the [...]

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