links for 2007-12-14
Technology Review: Smart Phone Suggests Things to Do (tags: research mobile phone PARC) Eyetracking points the way to effective news article design (tags: usability eyetracking webdesign design)
Technology Review: Smart Phone Suggests Things to Do (tags: research mobile phone PARC) Eyetracking points the way to effective news article design (tags: usability eyetracking webdesign design)
The Customer Connection: The Global Innovation 1000 (tags: innovation customer consulting)
Sometimes, while in the very fragile state of mind, during ideation sessions you bolt out with a flash of inspiration and a great idea, someone in your team (or an rss-feed-equipped-photographic-memory troll from the deep recesses of your brain) will leap up and pull up the website of a company that is–to be blunt–already doing [...]
Why compete on being the low price vendor, when you can boast about taking the least time out of your client’s life? Anab Jain has an interesting thought experiment and project about this. What if everything you purchase (products and services) were denoted by the amount of time that they took to consume (hours/minutes spent [...]
In the Lead – WSJ.com (tags: demographic marketing bizdev) Faceted classification – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (tags: classification taxonomy faceted folksonomy) Business.view | America’s emobyte deficit | Economist.com wow. just, wow. (tags: china culture internet)
One of the greatest disservices we can do to ourselves as design students is pay unadulterated obeisance to the 98+ methods that exist in ID’s coffers without considering architecting new ones to elicit human understanding… or make stuff. Here is my recipe for crafting a design method. Take two parts Creativity (yes, I did say [...]
Mayang’s Free Texture Library (tags: textures free design resources graphics)
If you’re wondering why there haven’t been any posts in a while, it’s because it’s finals time here at the Institute of Design. We’re all collectively scrambling to turn out final presentations, semester long workshop deliverables, and I’m still helping a few guys finish up loose ends for a class that I am assistant-teaching. I [...]
Maslow-Minded Merchandising (tags: experience brand customer Marketing) Wufoo · HTML Form Template & CSS Design Gallery (tags: CSS Forms webdesign templates Gallery)
If you are like me, you have too much stuff going on in your head at one point in time, and you owe your affliction to the mass of crud we’ve come to know and love, the intarweb. I’ve ranted in the past about biz plays to decrease the amount of clutter and use sense-making [...]
Design Continuum created a set of videos about design/design education and why they believe it is necessary. Check them out, here. There’s also a BusinessWeek article about it, here. There is a tremendous demand for design thinkers today. In industry and in consulting, those who can marry creative right-brain thinking and analytical left-brain thinking are [...]