June 2012
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May 2012
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Toto, We're Not in Jersey Anymore: The Nets'... →
What might seem a “basic” or “boring” approach to branding is much deeper than meets the eye.
April 2012
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BFA's and MFA's vs MBA's: Who makes better...
Apparently (and as I suspected) it’s designers.
With only 15 minutes to convince a skeptical panel of experienced professionals about a new idea that doesn’t exist in the world today, they fared significantly better than their MBA counterparts. Why? Because they shared real user insights to engage us emotionally, used narrative and stories to compel us, drew sketches and visualizations...
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Make Sleep a Priority—And Get More Productive
I started a company in San Francisco with some friends. I didn’t quit my day job, so this was an after-hours project. We set up an office and established a routine of working from 6 p.m. to midnight. After we started working for the new company full-time, I fell into a classic trap of San Francisco startup culture: I confused work hours with productivity. Somewhere in the back of my mind...
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UX is at the heart of any company
“While this [UX] is often associated with the Web, consumers who experience good UX online don’t switch off their expectations when they switch off the computer. The principles and theories of UX have created a new normal in terms of brand delivery and interaction. They state that how people actually use your product is much more important than how it was intended to be used. So engaging...
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WatchA Kickstarter Campaign I just backed: Pebble, a smartphone friendly watch
via Mashable by Kickstarter
March 2012
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The case for investing in UI and UX Design →
Today, usability is a must-have for optimal return on investment with new technologies. Companies focusing on user-experience (UX) and user-interface design in product and application development create better solutions, improving revenue, loyalty, and market share. Numerous industry studies have stated that every dollar spent on UX brings in between $2 and $100 dollars in return. Already,...
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5 Must have game mechanics GEN Y requires →
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Songster is Facebook’s First Music-Creation Social...
Dr. Dre never had it this easy. Music-creation social site, Songster, launched at SXSW on Wednesday for the musicportion of the conference. Songster lets you feel like a musician and mix various beats and vocals to make your own tracks.
Rest of the story via Mashable via Play Songster
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I no longer think it's okay that my TV is your...
About two months ago I freed myself from the clutches from Comcast cable subscription service and have lived with iTunes and Netflix via my Apple TV. As a person who doesn’t watch many sports and reads news online more than I ever watched it on TV I didn’t feel like I was missing anything when I cut the cord. Unfortunately this wasn’t exactly true.
What I was missing...
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Everyday Interactions: Making the Case for Relaxed... →
everydayinteractions:
Most usability test how-to lists began with, “Make the user feel at ease, explaining to them that this is not a test. Every time I rattle off that preamble, I get the feeling I really come across like this to my testers:
Photo Credit: Daria Wiki
Show me, don’t tell me. Show the tester…
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How to Create a Movement via @tedtalks
February 2012
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Video / Image Archive for Realizing Empathy: To... →
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We have a kickstarter project to print/distribute an ambitious design book that asks “Why making matters to our lives” by exploring the relationship between empathy, art, craft, design, computer technology, and ethics. ( http://kck.st/whvn03 )
We need greater exposure to make this…
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Nostalgia Overload: New Tumblr Challenges You to... →
What is it about video game worlds that etch themselves so vividly in our mind’s eye? A fun new user-generated blog aims to unearth the latent digital cartographer in you. Mapstalgia is the brainchild of Josh Millard, a self-described “nerd-type” from Portland, OR. It’s a Tumblr where …
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WatchDesign is about relationships via Build
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In defense of the 'not-so-lean startup' →
“Many great products have failed because there were no buyers or users ready. Remember Pets.com or Webvan? Of course you do—but for entirely the wrong reasons. It’s vital to remember that building a viable sales channel is just as important as building the viable product itself.
The Lean Startup method would have you rush a product to market. Then, you would maybe flounder on...
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My iPad, My Babysitter: U.S. Kids Are Already... →
If you’ve already gotten into the habit of hiding your iPad from your kids, this should not come as a shock: New research from Nielsen shows seven out of 12 children ages 12 and under who live in tablet-owning households use the devices for a number of purposes. What purposes? Like many adult…
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Pandora Radio is mans best friend
When you first create a new Pandora radio station it’s like a puppy. It’s the breed you want, it’s perfectly cute for the first few plays and then it pees on the carpet.
Bad dog!
Giving your stations attention and care will grow them into well-trained all-seeing eye dogs. Pandora seems to be for the involved mood-setting music listener, and by that I mean someone who’s...
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WatchMoving from marketing to customers to fascinating customers.
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Our Economy Is Mostly Services. But How Do You... →
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Watch“Oh expletive,” a screen print Kickstarter Project I just supported
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Songster: And the beat goes on...
In a world where casual gaming is slowly becoming a favorite of gamers and non-gamers alike, and where entry barriers into the industry are much, much lower, it is almost becoming impossible to tell the games apart. A great idea like FarmVille can span several different ‘seeds’ that are similar in style, but advertised as completely different games all together. It’s enough to make anyone’s head...
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Could A Change In Business Model Win Designers A...
Companies who have made their mark on design usually did so because a single designer had an unusually strong relationship with the company’s founder. Rams pointed to his own relationship with Braun’s CEO. Nowadays, of course, the crowning example is Apple, and the symbiotic mind meld that Jony Ive had with Steve Jobs.
via Fast Company Design