Designing Innovations

Writing a Creative Job Posting: Eight Ways to Snag to the Right Applicant

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:05:38 -0600

Writing a Creative Job Posting: Eight Ways to Snag to the Right Applicant

Great Ideas, Volume III

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:59:07 -0600

Great Ideas, Volume III

The 10 Commandments of Web Design

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:40:47 -0600

The 10 Commandments of Web Design

thefanboys.com redesigns the XBox Live interface to reclaim...

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:36:05 -0600

thefanboys.com redesigns the XBox Live interface to reclaim screen real estate for the player. Major change is to knock down screen real estate for advertising from 22% to 8%. Thing about this is that the gamer is Microsoft’s product and the real customers are the advertisers. Under a scheme like this, I wonder what sort of price increase you’d see in XBox Live monthly subscription fees to cover the assumed loss in advertising revenue.

Less Hyphen, More Burst for Walmart

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:45:05 -0600

Less Hyphen, More Burst for Walmart

Google to Start Distributing Content via AdSense - NYTimes.com

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:23:35 -0600

Google to Start Distributing Content via AdSense - NYTimes.com:

“Google will syndicate the program using its AdSense advertising system to thousands of Web sites that are predetermined to be gathering spots for Mr. MacFarlane’s target audience, typically young men. Instead of placing a static ad on a Web page, Google will place a “Cavalcade” video clip.

Advertising will be incorporated into the clips in varying ways. In some cases, there will be “preroll” ads, which ask viewers to sit through a TV-style commercial before getting to the video. Some advertisers may opt for a banner to be placed at the bottom of the video clip or a simple “brought to you by” note at the beginning.”

Technovia: In ten years time, will Apple be the new Microsoft - an abusive monopoly?

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:04:58 -0600

Technovia: In ten years time, will Apple be the new Microsoft - an abusive monopoly?: In the end, I agree with the post. Actually, in the beginning, since I’ve always thought of Apple as a benevolent dictator of design. But I also paused to think if this was really possible, since Apple seems to be structured in such a way as to favor niche adoption, even if 20% share could be described as niche. Then I thought of iPod, which has something on the order of 75%+ marketshare for digital audio players, at least in the US, and I thought, no Apple is not designed or desiring to stick to niches. I’d say some of the rancor caused by the Microsoft rivalry in the 80s and 90s was specifically because Jobs and Apple wanted the whole pie. Funny that their greatest chance to achieve that largely came by giving up on that goal.

innovation, ethnography, culture, and the corporation

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:47:55 -0600

innovation, ethnography, culture, and the corporation

Are you paying us to think or to do? (3 degrees of inspiration)

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:38:32 -0600

Are you paying us to think or to do? (3 degrees of inspiration)

Capital One launches customized photo credit cards. You can use...

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:11:00 -0600

Capital One launches customized photo credit cards. You can use preselected images (shown here), images from Flickr, or an image you upload. I see copyright problems down the road. (via swissmiss)

MagCloud

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:15:41 -0600

MagCloud: From HP Labs. ” MagCloud enables you to publish your own magazines. All you have to do is upload a PDF and we’ll take care of the rest: printing, mailing, subscription management, and more.”

"Managers are people who like order. They like forecasts to come out as planned. In fact, managers..."

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:16:53 -0600

“Managers are people who like order. They like forecasts to come out as planned. In fact, managers are often judged on how much order they produce. Innovation, on the other hand, is often a disorderly process. Many times, perhaps most times, innovation does not turn out as planned. As a result, there is tension between managers and innovation.”

- Lewis Lehr, former CEO of 3M

AP: The Price of Words

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:38:40 -0600

AP: The Price of Words

Assumptions and Complexity

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:33:12 -0600

Assumptions and Complexity

Is Google Making Us Stupid?

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:47:00 -0600

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google

That design is money! - physical interface

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:01:35 -0600

That design is money! - physical interface: As it turns out, those awesome Wells Fargo ATM interfaces I mentioned a while back were done by Pentagram. This article describes the design process. Thanks for the tip, Alex!

The Toad Stool: Return To Authenticity

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:47:46 -0600

The Toad Stool: Return To Authenticity: Disclaimer, I work for CP&B, which is praised in this article. I’d link to it for the larger criticism of some widely praised ads, not the tip of the hat to “Whopper Freakout”.

37signals Eschews Photoshop Web Design Mockups

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:22:28 -0600

37signals Eschews Photoshop Web Design Mockups:

camh:

They make a good point for in-house web design teams. If your whole team can actively collaborate and are all proficient in HTML/CSS then I imagine…

I’ve long been a fan of building workable examples, quickly. Designers with the chops are few and far between, though.

"Where is it written that a quarter of a year has anything to do with how a business should be..."

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:08:19 -0600

“Where is it written that a quarter of a year has anything to do with how a business should be managed? Most business cycles last for years, and even a recession or a downturn usually lasts longer than 90 days. There are few product lifecycles that can happen within 90 days, and in most businesses a 30 to 45 day period exists between an order and payment for that order, so even an order to payment cycle may last longer than 90 days.”

- Thinking Faster: Managing with a stopwatch

Google Fights for the Right to Hide Its Privacy Policy - Bits - NY Times Blog

Tue, 27 May 2008 11:58:29 -0600

Google Fights for the Right to Hide Its Privacy Policy - Bits - NY Times Blog: Hmm. As I read this, it seems to be diametrically opposed to “don’t be evil.”