Creative QR Codes

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Post by hamiltonchan » Sun, Jul 24, 2011, 1:01 AM UTC

Re: Creative QR Codes

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Post by sgrove » Sun, Jul 24, 2011, 1:43 AM UTC

I'm torn between NFC and QR codes... or at least, I was. I've seen some really spectacular exampled of QR codes recently - while in Korea, and most recently via paperlinks. I was initially skeptical of the user experience with QR codes, but after watching a paperlink demo, it's like magic.

We're about to finalize our logo, and immediately afterwards, they'll have one more happy, paying customer.

Re: Creative QR Codes

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Post by hollerith » Sun, Jul 24, 2011, 3:46 AM UTC

Speaking of aesthetics, I like the experience of looking at Microsoft Tags much more than looking at (ordinary) QR codes.

Re: Creative QR Codes

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Post by potatolicious » Sun, Jul 24, 2011, 4:21 AM UTC

Will any of those codes actually read?

The Disney codes are cool - they are creative in a way that doesn't compromise the readability of the code. The others just seem like gigantically bad ideas.

It's hard enough convincing people to use QR codes - the more you violate the spec the more devices will stop reading it.

Re: Creative QR Codes

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Post by jabo » Sun, Jul 24, 2011, 4:27 AM UTC

potatolicious wrote: post #4

Will any of those codes actually read ? The Disney codes are cool - they are creative in a way that doesn't compromise the readability of the code. The others just seem like gigantically bad ideas. It's hard enough convincing people to use QR codes - the more you violate the spec the more devices will stop reading it.

All of them worked on my iPhone 4 with the QR Qrafter app.

Re: Creative QR Codes

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Post by sp332 » Sun, Jul 24, 2011, 4:31 AM UTC

potatolicious wrote: post #4

Will any of those codes actually read ? The Disney codes are cool - they are creative in a way that doesn't compromise the readability of the code. The others just seem like gigantically bad ideas. It's hard enough convincing people to use QR codes - the more you violate the spec the more devices will stop reading it.

The "Barcode Scanner" app in the Android market had trouble with the first one, and the one with the panda in it. Google Goggles had no trouble with any of them.

Re: Creative QR Codes

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Post by Mizza » Sun, Jul 24, 2011, 4:46 AM UTC

There's a lot more cool stuff yet to be done with QR codes!

I'm going to announce this properly sometime this week when we've got a nice demo video, but we just (and I mean JUST) launched a new webapp for people who want to have flexible QR redirects with analytics.

If any of you guys are interested: http://omniqrcode.com

Re: Creative QR Codes

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Post by Rabidgremlin » Sun, Jul 24, 2011, 5:35 AM UTC

If you have an Android phone I released an app last week that lets you create customised QR codes containing your contact info. Check out https://market.android.com/details?id=com.rabidgremlin.andro...

Re: Creative QR Codes

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Post by jc4p » Sun, Jul 24, 2011, 5:53 AM UTC

sp332 wrote: post #6

potatolicious wrote: post #4

Will any of those codes actually read ? The Disney codes are cool - they are creative in a way that doesn't compromise the readability of the code. The others just seem like gigantically bad ideas. It's hard enough convincing people to use QR codes - the more you violate the spec the more devices will stop reading it.

The "Barcode Scanner" app in the Android market had trouble with the first one, and the one with the panda in it. Google Goggles had no trouble with any of them.

Goggles was uable to load the Farmville one for me.

Re: Creative QR Codes

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Post by Groxx » Sun, Jul 24, 2011, 6:25 AM UTC

potatolicious wrote: post #4

Will any of those codes actually read ? The Disney codes are cool - they are creative in a way that doesn't compromise the readability of the code. The others just seem like gigantically bad ideas. It's hard enough convincing people to use QR codes - the more you violate the spec the more devices will stop reading it.

All the paperlinks ones scanned almost immediately (redlaser here, could use a better one if anyone knows any). The rest usually took some jiggling and trying for a minute or so. And the Disney ones were just too small.