August 2007
33 posts
“After receiving my BA in product design I landed a dream job as a toy designer...”
– Awesome!
Cecilia Weckstrom
Nice blog on service design
“Coming from an IT background I perceived an increase in the scope of design activities. Starting with the design of information systems, the scope expanded to the design of business processes. Thereafter, the scope expanded….”
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Don't let other brands [people] kick sand in you...
“Are you going to let others define you? One to one sessions will help you define yourself and create your personal brand!”
Personal Branding
The mobile device is finally commoditized - the...
“Any Google phone will also be immediately compared to Apple’s iPhone. Whilst the iPhone provides an attractive package, it has so far only taken a small marketshare in the US cellular market, and is yet to have been released anywhere else in the world. A 3G (and therefore quicker) internet focused GPhone with a broad release worldwide could well present a strong competitor to Apple.”...
“If you were saying to yourself “Now, where can I browse over 1,700 arcade...”
– ASCII by Jason Scott: Arcade Manuals
ReD
“ReD Associates is the leading European innovation consultancy working with people centric innovation.”
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Service Design in Copenhagen
“The service economy is the new paradigm in most knowledge driven economies. The service industry accounts for large proportion of the Gross National Product of several countries like the UK and USA. Denmark – traditionally an industrial nation – is placing a lot of emphasis on knowledge based enterprises and globalisation. This is an interesting opportunity and good timing for many of the...
“…there are threebillion people under twenty five on this planet, now...”
– threebillion.com
Branded Utility
“a theory that suggests that in order for brands to remain relevant in our lives they have to become useful” Duh. Branded Utility: PSFK At Columbia on PSFK
On Holiday
I’m going on holiday for a week!
Special Numbers!
“7 is the smallest number of faces of a regular polygon that is not constructible by straightedge and compass” Many, many more special numbers here!
Children Make Places
“Children’s access to the public realm is currently heavily restricted – as much by physical barriers as by adult attitudes and anxieties. As heavy investment in play provision is currently set to deliver physical improvements, there is a need to address the wider social, cultural and political context in which the children’s public realm is being shaped.” Another clarion call for...
WatchSir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?
Brilliant video, Ken is passionate, articulate and inspiring. Watch it all the way through.
Lucy Kimbell Service Design Blog
“Occasional findings from an academic research fellowship concerned with design leadership, design research, emerging practices such as interaction and service design, and the framing of unframed problems”
Design leads us where exactly?
Service Dominant Logic
“Service-Dominant (S-D) Logic is a mindset for a unified understanding of the purpose and nature of organizations, markets and society. The foundational proposition of S-D logic is that organizations, markets, and society are fundamentally concerned with exchange of service—the applications of competences (knowledge and skills) for the benefit of a party. That is, service is exchanged for...
We're all paradoxes
“The “paradox of the active user” is a paradox because users would save time in the long term by taking some initial time to optimize the system and learn more about it. But that’s not how people behave in the real world, so we cannot allow engineers to build products for an idealized rational user when real humans are irrational: we must design for the way users actually...
Service design for government - pdf on best... →
WatchLong and interesting talk on starting up a company from the MyBlogLog founders.
“What Should Yahoo! Do Regarding Social Networks?" →
Interesting insight into the awful powerpoint world of investment…
Green geeks get green
“Discovery Communications has announced the acquisition of TreeHugger.com for what is believed to be $10 million.”
Discovery Acquires TreeHugger.com For $10million
