March 2010
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The Economist Rethinks Design Thinking →
At The Economist’s Rethink conference Core 77’s Kevin McCullagh discovers that there’s no consensus on what, exactly, design thinking is. And, at 10 years old, design thinking could use some principle on how it’s applied. McCullagh suggests:
precision over woolliness (fuzziness)
quality over quantity
vision over users
balance left with right brain thinking (not the other way around)
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Apple's iAd Could Bite a Chunk Out of Google's... →
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Four TED Talks for Experience Designers
Peter Merholz from Adaptive Path links to four TED talks of value to Experience Designers.
Blaise Aguera y Arcas showed off Bing Maps, with new technologies that allow you embed Flickr photos and even live video in “street view” mode.
Gary Flake walks you through Pivot, a tool for data analysis and exploration through realtime visualization.
Daniel Kahneman’s presentation on experience versus...
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The Jobs Of Yesteryear: Obsolete Occupations
As computers and automated systems increasingly take the jobs humans once held, entire professions are now extinct. Click through the gallery below to see examples of endangered professions, from milkman to telegrapher, and hear from people who once filled those oft-forgotten jobs.
Via: NPR (Full article)
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Why Can't the World's Best Architects Build Better...
Architects—perhaps the most design-savvy business people of all—suffer from an industry-wide anti-usability epidemic. And the higher-profile the firm, the sorrier the site.
A well put statement by ALISSA WALKER from Fast Company
Full article: http://su.pr/2JGVdk
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Lufthansa's MySkyStatus: It's travel made social
This looks like a very useful tool for staying connected regarding flight statuses. Good one from Lufthansa.
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Watch
The Zappos puppets are kinda brilliant.
Read a full review of Mullen’s new campaign on Ad Week.
via: thatssodigital:
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Heineken Italy. Fantastic Case Study
Here’s a fairly brilliant idea for a viral ad campaign that could have gone terribly, terribly wrong. But this particular gamble taken by JWT Italy for Heineken turned out to have a bit of marketing magic behind it—plus, it’s incredibly entertaining to watch.
In Italy, where soccer is somewhat more of a religion than a sport, the UEFA Champions League game that took place last October between...
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Home Sweet *Mobile* Home
Great idea for residents who could do without the commitment of owning a home that requires upkeep. These mobile homes can be placed by the sea, the mountains or a tourist destination. Well designed and functional.
Full article in Yatzer
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Incrédibox
The very French Incrédibox allows you to compose your own beatbox tune through a simple palette of repeating sounds, each one animated by its own beatboxing guy (complete with sloppy Euro-hair and hoop earring,bien sur). It’s a glossy, stylized way to have some fun composing: You can mix, match and even shuffle percussions, vocals, instruments and effects, as the director of your very own a...
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Infographic of the Day: "The Age of Crap"
Fantastic rebuttal-esqe piece from Fast Company on shifts in online news consumption. Before I copy and paste highlights, let it be known that the very action I am undertaking, and a good portion of my blog content, fuels blogger Brian Cray’s argument:
Everyday I see more crap clogging my Twitter stream and delicious iGoogle boxes. “Top 10 things widgets for your Web site.”...
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Starbucks Sponsors Coffee-Cup Redesign Contest
Co-creation at its finest.
58 billion on the go coffee cups get thrown away into landfills every year. This is not sustainable. The Beta Cup is a community based initiative to tackle this problem. Starbucks has agreed to sponsor Betacup’s contest to redesign the coffee cup in an effort to reduce the waste.
Betacup from the betacup on Vimeo.
(Via Fast Company)
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Digital Agencies Get Back to Business →
Interesting Adweek piece on how interactive shops are starting to help clients re-shape their businesses. A welcoming shift from a traditional production role to more of a business design consulting role.
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WatchNokia: Conversations, the new conversion.
Arto Joensuu, Head of Digital Marketing at Nokia, and the rest of his search & social team are spreading the message that conversations are the new conversion across Nokia and beyond.
via: thatssodigital
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Room for improvement (tagline: Monocle)
After reading a substantive number of Monocle articles on the hospitality industry, with specifics to top quality ranked hotels around the world, I am more convinced now that the W Hotel on Lexington Avenue, New York has diminished in service. As the W Hotel is part of a chain, I’m feeling inclined to pass judgment on the lot as well. I will not, however. I’ll give the W chain of...
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Attention US travellers! GateGuru aims to help you
I just discovered this new iPhone app, GateGuru. It provides listings and user-generated reviews of places to eat at 85 US airports, with plans to expand worldwide.
http://gateguruapp.com/
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McKinsey: Get Ready For Sensor-Driven Business...
A very comprehensive and insightful read on how a business model can be shaped for The Internet of Things. The report comes from McKinsey Quarterly, which you have to register to access the full extent of it. I recommend you do, it takes 1 min. RWW provides a thorough summary of the report. Essentially, McKinsey sees two categories for emerging applications: “information and analysis”...
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Why a recession is good for service industries
As many people fumble with the dreaded word recession, I personally think that there is much gain to be had as a result of the economic downturn. Let me put this into deeper context. The digital arena, which I classify as a service industry mainly because its success is based on a positive user experience, we all play in has not only emerged as a dominant communications channel, but has evolved...
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The Hero →
Just came across a very clever and excellently executed interactive movie called The Hero, featuring me or anyone else I know. Upload a photo of yourself and become seamlessly integrated into a convincing-looking film. Draftfcb came up with this viral concept as a way of convincing a young and metropolitan audience to start paying a broadcast fee as part of the Swedish public-service system.
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Where We Design →
Fantastic workspace and design environments from designers, architects, agencies and more. Inspiring!
via @karrio
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Location-Based Services: Hype or Hit? →
Interesting RWW piece on whether the future of Location Based Services will yield success or merely hype. An argument for predicted revenue growth is based on penetration beyond smartphone users and Average Revenue per User.
via: New York Times