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Choosenick is moving home...

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:36:23 +0000

Onwards, upwards and increasingly lightweight and integrated is the dorky cry!

I’m in the process of moving the blog over to the main choosenick url on the excellent Chyrp blogging/tumblogging platform. Watch out for more writing and design content (soon, I promise!)… I’ll post another (final) update here once I’ve sorted out the last bits and bobs such as the rss feed and so forth. In addition, I’ll need to create my own theme, which will take a while too… Nonetheless, it’ll be worth it to tidy things up and get everything into one place.

Thanks Tumblr, you’ve been great, and I’ll miss your brilliant archive and mobile features. I’ll keep my new post-it blog going through Davidville’s little beauty though, so its not totally goodbye! Can’t say I’ll miss the very heavy duty EE too much (which was powering the old choosenick), although you were my first CMS so I guess that stands for something.

"We enjoy novelty that we understand"

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:23:59 +0000

“We enjoy novelty that we understand”

- The value of novelty

More Geoff - Taking innovation in the public sector seriously

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:33:42 +0000

More Geoff! I’ve been reading a printed copy of this:

Ready or not? Taking innovation in the public sector seriously

“The public sector is often poor at innovation from within, and poor at learning from outside. It contains many innovative people but isn’t good at harnessing their talents and imagination.”

It’s excellent, download it now. A review is likely to come here when I get some time… Still working on the complete overhaul /integration of my site/blog into Chyrp though so it may be a few weeks!

Towards a Science of Service Systems. (pdf download) ...

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:09:58 +0000

Towards a Science of Service Systems. (pdf download)

“The service sector accounts for most of the world’s economic activity, but it’s the least studied part of the economy. A service system comprises people and technologies that adaptively compute and adjust to a system’s changing value of knowledge. A science of service systems could provide theory and practice around service innovation.”

"We believe that the time is ripe for a radical change to how we do service and how we think about..."

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:03:33 +0000

“We believe that the time is ripe for a radical change to how we do service and how we think about it. We lack any institutions truly committed to service – to understanding it, promoting it, cultivating it. Hence the proposal for a Service Campus to act as a change agent across the public and private sectors.”

- The ever effusive polymath Geoff Mulgan outlines an exciting proposal… The Young Foundation are fascinating - a friend of mine just started an internship there - so I’ll kep an eye on this project.

Service Campus- Outline Proposal

Via: Zeus Jones (Via: Design for Service)

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:58:41 +0000

Via: Zeus Jones (Via: Design for Service)

Daily Post-it

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:39:27 +0000

I just set up DailyPost-it - but then I checked and it seems someone has beaten me to it. Nonetheless, I’ll persist for now. My Post-its will be different in that they will all be real Post-its used in the studio, and will all be united in their banality. Let’s see how it goes…

Post it of the day

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:19:33 +0000

Post it of the day

Service Design Network

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 17:24:49 +0000

The Service Design Network has had a substantial facelift and rebrand.

They’ve got a really interesting download (pdf) of the ‘Service Innovation and Design Journal’. There’s other articles and projects available for review too, including these from Birgit Marger in Cologne (but why can’t you download the document!?)

I’ve always liked Prof. Marger’s concept of service generally suffering from lack of ‘form’ - hence the need for service design.

via Schulze & Webb. Great presentation on ‘the...

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 10:42:38 +0000

via Schulze & Webb.

Great presentation on ‘the internet as movement’

Shelly Evenson on Service System Frameworks - “The...

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 09:24:03 +0000

Shelly Evenson on Service System Frameworks - “The frameworks that conciously connect service touchpoints.” At the Design Research Conference.

Amazing pdf viewer

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 20:37:23 +0000

I hope this works…

Roger Martin's Publications

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:20:33 +0000

Roger Martin's Publications:

Lots of great publications by business/design guru Roger Martin - “today’s business people don’t
need to understand designers better, they need to
become designers.” This one is particulalry good.

Awesome Undersea Internet Cable Infographic via...

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 09:57:42 +0000

Awesome Undersea Internet Cable Infographic via telegeography.com

How to Lie with Design Research. Nice contrast to this.

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:06:39 +0000

How to Lie with Design Research. Nice contrast to this.

Brilliant Air Crash Experience!

Sun, 03 Feb 2008 15:31:04 +0000

Last night I went to Shunt with Steve, Davina and others. We actually went to see a great band play on the underground pirate ship, but that wasn’t the best bit - The best bit was the simulated air crash experience/scary zip line into a blinding light as part of a project called Airphoria, organised the talented chaps at Aerial. As they say on their website:

“…to acknowledge such incidents [air crashes] as being thrilling is considered taboo. Experiences and memories of thrill are displaced by the horrors of human tragedy. Thoughts of thrill are only reintroduced at a ‘respectful’ later date through sanitised stories of heroism. But what if the emotion of thrill prevailed, and the act of creation were nurtured beyond the moment of fusion? Airphoria explores one possible alternative.”

I screamed like a girl and lost my hat. Awesome.

Clever camera product/service design from Leica: “Leica...

Sun, 03 Feb 2008 10:08:33 +0000

Clever camera product/service design from Leica:

“Leica fanatics are different than regular people, so it’s no surprise Leica’s taking an entirely different—but brilliant—approach with its M8: It’s everlasting. Instead of dropping an M9 or M10, Leica is offering substantial upgrades to the M8 itself—mechanical and digital components, so it’ll slowly evolve into a new camera. The first package is a sapphire LCD screen, which can only be scratched by a diamond, plus a new, quieter, less shaky shutter, at a cost of around $1,800.”

From Gizmodo

Spooky service design… “as of December Boston-based...

Sun, 03 Feb 2008 05:14:09 +0000

Spooky service design… “as of December Boston-based ScientificMatch is using DNA to assess personal chemistry for dating purposes”

Via

ci desk - This is what we need at work! 1 each. They’re so...

Sat, 02 Feb 2008 11:23:34 +0000

ci desk - This is what we need at work! 1 each. They’re so cute.

via szymon