December 2011
1 post
WatchWow, @sprintly looks amazing. Alternative to backlog/kanban style apps. Can’t wait to get my hands on it. https://sprint.ly/
November 2011
1 post
October 2011
2 posts
September 2011
1 post
WatchI am salivating over Bank Simple… AND they are moving to Portland. Neat. It is going to be funny to watch them out run Mint. Oh Intuit.
August 2011
4 posts
“Most scientists also scoffed at Mr. Ettinger’s vision, but his manifesto came as...”
– -Robert Ettinger, founder of the cryonics movement died July 23rd at 92.
He believed death was for the unimaginative and unprepared.
“foresight used to be called futurism, but that futurism has increasingly become...”
– -Beyond Prediction, Charles Stross
Some nice thoughts about futurism, foresight, design fiction and science fiction from someone in the trenches. And I thought explaining IxD was hard.
“Cross-channel offers a different stance from both multi-channel and cross-media:...”
– -What is Cross Channel
Some hair splitting thoughts on wrangle multi-touchpoint experiences from an Information Architecture perspective. Im not sure I agree with or understand the points fully, but the idea of a task arching across multiple channels is certainly an interesting design challenge...
July 2011
5 posts
“It is the emphasis on user-centered design that has made American interface...”
– -UI Design: An All-American Product That’s Changing The World (via FastCoDesign)
From a historical perspective celebrating the USA’s contributions to UI is sound. But in this day and age UI and IxD is a global effort and a global community. This isn’t a soccer team. I call total...
“The NSF has announced the Innovation Corps – a program to take the most...”
– Way to go National Science Foundation (via Steve Blank)
June 2011
2 posts
“Be the one people talk about NOT because of your latest gamification and WOM...”
– Pixie Dust & The Mountain of Mediocrity | gapingvoid
May 2011
2 posts
“By comparing the changes the teams made week-to-week-week in their business...”
– @sgblank summary of his Stanford Lean Launchpad class. For anyone into #bmgen & lean its a great read.
April 2011
1 post
March 2011
14 posts
“The barrier to entry isn’t a monetary one, it’s a philosophical one. This...”
– Make: Online » Why the Arduino Won and Why It’s Here to Stay
“In my talk at Harvard Business School, I said “Early in a startup, product...”
– A VC: Marketing
“1: Be authentic. The most powerful asset you have is your individuality, what...”
– 10 lessons for young
designers. By John C Jay of Wieden+Kennedy
“But wasn’t the Web supposed to be all about niches? -
Yes, that was the original...”
– Gawker Media’s Nick Denton dishes deliciously on all things web. Listen and learn! | The Fix | Daily Front Row
“You don’t do morality. We talk about it, but don’t go there. You’re no better...”
– Bruce Sterling addressing a bunch IxDs Interaction 11 report: day 3
“Bruce Sterling chastised designers for being overly empathetic to their users...”
– Interaction 11 report: day 3
“For apps to be meaningful and longlasting, Kruzeniski suggests they must be (as...”
– Interaction 11 report: day 3
“Our brain likes patterns. Especially patterns which we have seen before and...”
– Charles Hannon, The neuroscience of usability Interaction 11 report: day 3
“strong brands should have ‘signature interactions’: interactions that can...”
– Nick Myers Interaction 11 report: day 1 – inside-out design innovations and design meets branding
“in all object making, that aspect which relates to its conceptual interpretation...”
– Hella Basu Interaction 11 report: day 1 overview
“Yet surely having something wrapped right around your mind is different from...”
– How the Internet Gets Inside Us : The New Yorker
“Search is, in my mind, yesterday’s story,” said Lewis Dvorkin, chief product...”
– - Lewis Dvorkin, chief product officer at Forbes (via NYT)
Ironic considering what happened a few days later with Forbes.
“Since individual competence is valued, each person strives to create their work...”
– -Agile is Culture not Process
This goes for the agency world too. Producers are put in some of the toughest positions I have seen.
February 2011
25 posts
“…at any given moment, our most complicated machine will be taken as a model of...”
– How the Internet Gets Inside Us : The New Yorker
Daring Fireball: The Next Six Months →
In the post PC world people will focus on building service avatars for the emerging ubiquitous service medium, but Apple’s new 30% tax on services and Google’s 10% play says a lot about where the real fight will be.
“For the first time, content monetization is no longer the problem of content...”
– – Jeffrey Zeldman, Readability 2.0 is disruptive two ways
“Those options aren’t very good. But recently, I came up with a third option that...”
– -Full API now available (via Instapaper Blog)
How to play nicely with other services and not loose your ass.
“The new approach catering to Caffeine appears to favor a more altruistic SEO...”
– -New SEO Practices for a Google Caffeine World
Such a funny statement, its a weird web indeed.
“At an AIGA conference, a designer named Gong created a product design that had...”
– LukeW’s notes on Jared Spool’s talk The Age of Experience
“If you find yourself playing from the “best practice rule book”, expect an 80%...”
– Joshua Handy, The Tyranny of Best Practices
“For that matter, our minds were altered less by books than by index slips....”
– How the Internet Gets Inside Us : The New Yorker
“Shirky’s and Tooby’s version of Never-Betterism has its excitements, but the...”
– How the Internet Gets Inside Us : The New Yorker (via Instapaper)
RIP, MBA →
Matthew Stewart takes the MBA to task. So don’t take that left turn into an MBA program according to this Mathew and Bruce Sterling. Heavy handed, but an interesting read, especially the end. (via bruces)
“…you cannot disconnect the form from the material—the material informs the form.”
– Oldie but goodie. Why Apple is the New Master of Craft. Adam Richardson (Frog) talks about the recent Core77 interview with Apple’s Jonathan Ive in which Ive discusses getting out of CAD and hands on with materials.
Hopeful Monsters and the Trough Of Disillusionment →
Matt Webb (Berg) lays out an interesting hypothesis about the hypecycle of emerging technologies from FooCamp10. Bruce Sterling says this how the world works these days. Links from 2010.
“Linked data is more of an ethos than a standard, focused on providing context,...”
– Where the semantic web stumbled, linked data will succeed (via Oreilly Radar)