Thinking About Tomorrow – WSJ.com
(tags: technology futurism)
Archive for January, 2008
Effective Writing – George Orwell
(tags: writing tips language howto creativity)
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source: Tyler Hicks, NYTimes
Game developers have known for a long time now that a clever way to win consumers is by making their games “modifiable” — That is, adding custom levels in Quake, or creating scenarios in strategy games like Civilization.
As designers/innovators, we all know it’s particularly insightful to observe extreme/lead users and [...]
According to Gary Hamel (whose book I have yet to finish reading), you can teach an old dog new tricks. His assertion that corporate leaders invest very little on training of innovation methods may well be true: even truer might be that corporate expenditure on innovation might be wasted in bizarre ways. [...]
I was looking for a Firefox search engine plugin today for Google’s “I’m feeling lucky”. Why? Because I am militant about saving time, I search for stuff constantly, and I think it’s easier to type in “Illinois DMV” into a search bar and I’m pretty sure I know what the first hit is going to [...]
When I went to China last summer, I met a lot of [mostly businessmen] who had dual sim card phones.
In the late 90’s I remember clearly a device released that fit over your phone jack or connected to your phone and automatically dialed internationally using the cheapest provider for the call. (Nowadays, [...]
Design Sojourn | Strategic Industrial Design Blog » 8 Important Consumer Trends to Look Out for in 2008
(tags: design trends)
The Story of Stuff with Annie Leonard
(tags: environment sustainability stuff)
It would appear that growing enterprises and [buffalo wing] restaurants really do have a lot in common.
From Business Week:
Restaurant owners weren’t failing because they had ill-defined competitive strategies. They weren’t failing because they lacked access to capital, or because they chose poor locations, either. (These are factors, Parsa says, just not typically make-or-break [...]
It’s a phone, thus, a mic to capture audio.
It’s got a pretty swift safari browser that’s AJAX compatible.
Why haven’t people made voice activated web apps yet? It confounds me.
The only thing I’ve found that’s remotely close is this inelegant solution by Ask.com that seems cobbled together. (SMS + Web + Voice?)
(Actually, [...]
“Our enormously productive economy … demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals, that we seek our spiritual satisfaction, our ego satisfaction, in consumption…. we need things consumed, burned up, replaced, and discarded at an ever-accelerating rate.”
– Victor Lebow, 1955
Someone just sent me [...]
PSDTuts – Photoshop Tutorials and Links – Advanced Glow Effects
(tags: photoshop effect design)
Advancing Advanced Search – Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design
(tags: search findability)
