2008

“despite impressive growth, Twitter’s universe is...”
— Why Twitter Matters The jury...

via www.johnwinsor.com

“Microsoft needs to shift the culture from planning the exact...”
— Ray Ozzie, Microsoft’s...

Richer by the Day » Chrysler Gas Card

Information Design Patterns. A reference site for various,...

Wells Fargo's New ATM Interface - useful...

When my family and I moved to Colorado from New York, I had assumed I could just stick with Bank of...

Jones Soda carbonated candy. Not nearly as fizzy as...

Addictomatic: Inhale the Web

“The Twitter population is a rounding error compared with Web...”
— What Twitter brings to the...

Google User Experience - Ten Principles to...

QR codes are paving a way to share and hide...

“Some of them have food in their beard. Some of them have...”
— Nick Law: The Next Creative...

Will RSS Ever Go Mainstream?

Asking for help, even when you don't...

“most features are built for experts, but most users...

via www.bennettrobotworks.com

“The idea of design and the profession of the designer has to...”
— Tate Modern | Past Exhibitions...

Magic Pen by Alejandro Guillen

“Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and...”
— attributed to Chuck Close

Innovation Insights from Blizzard

Rely on critics Use your own products Make continual improvements Go back to the drawing...

The first major output from my new gig. Read about it on USA...

New UK coinage from the Royal Mint. Hoefler and Frere-Jones...

The NY Times has jumped on the typographical campaign...

ICE 08: Can Advergaming Spur Creativity?

“I’m used to living in a world drunk on Spore...”
— Gamasutra - Opinion: Is Spore...

How to build community: Start with the...

Online Product Demos

Rolex Apple iPhone “Fingertips” Apple iLife Nokia Nseries I would have thought Hulu...

“T-minded people don’t have a defined territory—others can...”
— AdBridge: Solution No. 1 - A...

“By one common measure, it takes 10,000 hours to become...”
— The Craftsman by Richard...

The new strategist?

3d -- A model for learning and improvement

Agile Content Development: The Ready, Fire,...

Clients are people

Starbucks has launched a crowd sourcing effort called...

Crayon Physics Deluxe just seems like its screaming out to be brought to the iPhone, but I’d...

Steven Frank: The First, The Free, and the...

Mike Rohde has posted his very designy notes from SXSW. I...

Steve Jobs interview on Paul Rand

First-Mover Myth Strikes Again

Tim Bray on speed to market vs features If you and I have the same good idea for a community-based...

Form + Function

slow projects

Techno//Marketer: Are you a tradigitalist?

The Future is Web Services, Not Web Sites

Thoughts on Google’s 20% time

via movies.apple.com

The Rise of The Ad Man 2.0 : iain tait |...

Managing with Aloha Coaching: What’s the...

The first MP3 player celebrates its 10th...

I Worry That Ad Agencies Have the Wrong...

Marketing Strategy and the Power of Jobs

Return on Insights: Better by (total)...

The first MP3 player celebrates its 10th...

How Org Charts Lie - HBS Working Knowledge

Form + Function: Advertising Gets Serious...

“Our goal is to delight consumers at two “moments of...”
— ‘The consumer is...

“People think focus means saying yes to the thing...”
— Steve Jobs speaks out - On...

Joseph Juran, 103, Pioneer in Quality...

Advertising as part of holistic experience...

Apple dispells first-mover advantage...

Apple’s ultimate success is yet to be proven decisively, but after yesterday’s iPhone...

Does the Home Page Still Matter?: Why...

Telling complex stories.

Speak, machine, speak! (on nothing in...

Countering the screenshot threat

I was watching a NY Times audio slideshow about the design of suburban corporate headsquarters and I...

Gravity Free 08: Multidisciplinary Design...

“values are supposed to guide behavior, and you can’t...”
— Analysis of Paralysis | Fast...

Leaders relentlessly simplify…

Book Review - JUST ENOUGH ANXIETY

Free Photos and Artistic Vision

“networks are in a way living, breathing entities that...”
— Social Networks Are Like The...

Personas and the Role of Design...

Design Meets Research: Gain: AIGA Journal of...

two forty eight » Advertising Artifacts

BIL conference wiki / Schedule

MIT Advertising Lab: The Communist Manifesto...

Pop-Tart innovation out of control

Mobile Opportunity: Mobile applications, RIP

Innovation learning curve

fluidesign _blog | Demystifying “Above the...

Brand New: Scawy Bunny Wabbit

one company, ten brands: lessons from retail...

A new category of reserved parking, right next to the...

Boxes and Arrows: Search Behavior Patterns,...

LinkedIn is testing a new dashboard page. On first glance, I like it. Still no RSS feeds, though, as...

Economist.com Style Guide

CR Blog » Blog Archive » Onitsuka: Product...

Businesspundit: The Top 10 Changes In My...

“it’s better to think of social media tools as amplifying...”
— The Problem with Social Media...

“The suburbs have always been a fertile space for imagining...”
— Worlds Away: New Suburban...

Visual map of data-mined concepts associated with...

What Goes into Planning a Social Media...

Adobe Think Tank

“How many advertisements have to be run to gain one new...”
— ideasonideas » Blog...

Cross-channel experiences: How good are...

“the top brand in the world belongs to a player...”
— The Shrinking Advantage of...

“here is what people do on social networks in order of...”
— Sexy Widget: Some Notes from...

Color-coded screening takes off at DIA - The...

Give Me Your Black Sheep

“If you’ve put in the time and effort to learn how to...”
— Coroflot’s Creative...

“I like to find (a) simple solutions (b) to overlooked...”
— Paul Graham: Six Principles...

Perhaps brand advertising has got it wrong

How Cognitive Science Can Improve Your...

“The call of the curator requires people who are selfless and...”
— Steve Rubel’s Micro...

The Future of Mobile: QR Codes

“planners need to get their heads around the skills/approach...”
— brand new: Planning...

Less Talking, More Doing

More on aesthetic and functional beauty.

Videos of Interaction 08 presentations now...

“In place of a closed, privileged and costly system, it will...”
— Harvard Proposal to Publish...

The Ritzilhouette

Interaction 08 In a Word: Better

Invite Share - Everyone is invited!

“These are the solutions to our problems in education....”
— Steve Jobs, The Wired...

What's wrong with mobile marketing

Agency Life - The Agency Maturity Meter

If Online Marketing Is the Future, Why Are So...

“If you are out shopping for superstar employees, the...”
— Bob Sutton’s Work...

Seems like Twitter has been clobbered, yet again, by today’s election activities....

What Specifically Do Generalists Do?

“While one could argue that the fact that existing trends...”
— PSFK - The Problem With the...

Who Gave What On This Super, Super Tuesday

Porter’s Five Forces, Updated

Immaculate Heart College, Art Department Rules

Our Forthcoming Book: Subject to Change:...

Microsoft, Yahoo, and the Innovator’s...

Fundrace: Check the big presidential campaign...

Design Couldn't Save Yahoo

Spotting a New Leader

Diagnosticians

VW Looking To Beetle To Save Its Brand Again

A conversation on the nature of knowledge...

Influencing Only Looks Easy

The big lie about free

Why are people ignoring you?

McCain Takes Florida - CNN

64% of precincts have reported and CNN is projecting McCain has beat Romney by 4% and Giuliani is 20...

hey Creative Leaders: we want to talk

Innovation on the Org Chart

Brilliance slips by in a blur | Times...

A great example of constraint-driven creativity - the Bugatti Veyron.

A Case for Strategy as Design

Innovation + The "Un-Agency"

An Open Letter to the Twitter Guys

Small Pond, Smart Fish: Why Young Designers...

The Tipping Point debate

Usability and Interface Design Books

Kelly's 14 Rules for Running the Skunk Works

Two-day course: Hot Thoughts on Creativity,...

interactions magazine