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It’s the little things. I love this: when you forget your Apple password, you go to “iforgot.apple.com”

Feedback to the original content creator I just saw this on Grooveshark today. Interesting. I wonder if more platforms are going to be a places where an experience is delivered (like music), and the original content creator will get direct authentic feedback from the content consumer. I’m sure this is just a clever platform feature, [...]

Lately I’ve been trying to understand strategically the creation of 2 sided networks/marketplaces and turning them into {web} businesses. I’ve come across some interesting articles and thought I’d brain dump them and share them here with other people who are trying to pursue similar end goals. Two sided networks are interesting: They’re characterized by extremely [...]

Tim Brown raised interesting questions on the ideo blog: “Firstly, why is the design of tangible things so reliable and secondly are there lessons from attempts to design in the abstract world of economics that may be useful to all design thinkers?” I had to stop and think about it for a while to ask [...]

Nice! I posted just a few weeks ago about the ridiculousness of the “Like Button“. Yesterday, an Unlike button showed up in the News Feed. Hmm, Weird coincidence.

When fbook earlier this year decided to put these buttons everywhere like little pollen seeds that spread across the web, publishers and sites knew that putting incorporating it was a necessary sell-out in the world of social. They’d have to play in this tireseome little attention economy game and be well “Liked” by everyone on [...]

Everyone knows that our country suffers from an obesity epidemic. We’re becoming increasingly aware, as Marco Ament of Instapaper fame points out, that we’re also suffering from information obesity. The money quote by Arment: People love information. Right now in our society, we have an obesity epidemic. Because for the first time in history, we [...]

{Sorry it’s been a while — I just moved to the Best Coast and have been getting settled and heads down in UX work} I’m a big believer in business models for content based on augmentation, contextualization, and personalization. I was chatting with an old friend from Michigan EECS, Elias, and we came up with [...]

I believe there’s huge potential for user experiences to adapt to the “current” stage in people’s lives, whatever term “current” can be applied to. Context-aware recommendations for content, services, experiences and more is a field that’s bound to explode. Companies, societies, and individuals are cropping up to serve this use-case of curating/filtering and making people [...]

Dan Hill, noted author of City of Sound wrote about this Breville Toaster and applauded the design of the “a bit more” button. The post was commented on hacker news quite a bit and I’ve thought about its design in general a bit more. Breville Toaster, flickr: Dan Hill Dan says, regarding the “Bit More [...]

(from the BettrAt blog) Pledge to watch the movie over at WaitingForSuperman.com. Infographic video made by the Creative animation studio Buck.

Warning: This might be a fanboy post, but it’s more about my fascination with an important idea that the best companies can create something out of nothing. IBM Nipple Mouse Most people will remember the first (or second) generation laptops that came out. In an effort to save some space and still provide an adequate [...]