Tippexperience
Subservient Chicken meets Old Spice! This Tippex channel on YouTube is hilarious and very well done! Best use of interactive YouTube i’ve seen in a while.
via: @laurajaybee
This is Mona
Welcome. As the title of this blog suggests, I am Mona. I am a multi-disciplinary strategist with a passion for digital strategy and experience design. Scroll down a bit to start reading, or a bit more about me.
What the fuck should I eat for dinner?
Brilliantly crass blog that spits out fantastic recipe ideas (linking to epicurious). If you’re “not a fucking vegetarian”? There’s a perfectly good recipe for you too.
Fotopool
Brilliant! Excellent tool for Tourism boards to use to enhance tourist experiences. A camera mount for tourist spots that lets visitors get everyone in the picture.
To take the concept another step further, I think it would be great to see some sort of tech integration whereby the photo can be tagged with location/attraction and sent to designated social streams, should the user want to do so. Might be a bit far fetched and i’m sure there will need to be privacy parameters in place, but what better way to capture a moment, share it instantly while on vacation (not having to wait until you get back home to upload the photos on Facebook or Flickr) and have increased visibility on the tourist location, which would be of great value for the Tourism board.
Full article on Fotopool via Springwise
How Starbucks Plans to Capitalize on Free Wi-Fi
I love the concept of a Third Place, and Starbucks already does so well with providing a community setting. The idea of kicking its existing strength up a notch by offering SDN, a curated content experience for customers to enjoy online at no cost, is solid. A strategy is sound when all parties involved gain value. Starbucks wins yet again by reinforcing its position as a Third Place; and content providers gain business. This type of engagement is an example of good service design in my opinion.
How To Torture a User Experience Designer
- Sit them down in front of another awkwardly designed seat-back media player…on a plane….for 5 hours.
- Call a “collaborative working session” on a hotly debated topic in a room with no sticky notes, sharpies or whiteboards.
- Equate “user experience” with “user interface.”
- Insist they follow Jakob…
Via: /thoughtparade; /Adaptive Path
Reblogged from thoughtparade
LiveMocha
LiveMocha is a website that uses social networking to teach language. Language in itself is social, and what better way to accelerate learning than in a social context. Great idea.
Pilot Handwriting
Personalize e-mails with your own handwriting! Such a great tool. I can’t wait to try it out.
People don’t buy what you do, people buy why you do it. Simple yet smart concept behind inspiring, innovating and leading.
Tags: TED Simon Sinek
Urban planning in Lebanon: An interview with Lady Cochrane
Found this gem of an interview from Monocle on urban planning and politics in Lebanon. Monocle’s Tyler Brûlé interviews Lady Yvonne Cochrane of Sursock, Ashrafieh
“Beirut’s Christian quarter of Ashrafieh has weathered civil war, terrorist assassinations and the recent Hezbollah-Israeli conflict. But today the hill-top neighbourhood is once again under threat, this time from developers who are destroying the old palaces to build high-rises for the country’s internationally mobile elite. As Lebanon faces yet another uncertain summer, Monocle editor-in-chief Tyler Brûlé pays a visit to Lady Yvonne Cochrane, doyenne of the Christian East and owner of one of the most alluring palaces in the eastern Mediterranean, to talk urban planning, architecture and the future of her country.”
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