Sometimes, while in the very fragile state of mind, during ideation sessions you bolt out with a flash of inspiration and a great idea, someone in your team (or an rss-feed-equipped-photographic-memory troll from the deep recesses of your brain) will leap up and pull up the website of a company that is–to be blunt–already doing [...]
Archive for December, 2007
Well, it’s about time
11Dec07Why compete on being the low price vendor, when you can boast about taking the least time out of your client’s life?
Anab Jain has an interesting thought experiment and project about this. What if everything you purchase (products and services) were denoted by the amount of time that they took to consume (hours/minutes spent reading [...]
links for 2007-12-11
11Dec07
In the Lead - WSJ.com
(tags: demographic marketing bizdev)
Faceted classification - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(tags: classification taxonomy faceted folksonomy)
Business.view | America’s emobyte deficit | Economist.com
wow. just, wow.
(tags: china culture internet)
Recipe: Design Method.
10Dec07One of the greatest disservices we can do to ourselves as design students is pay unadulterated obeisance to the 98+ methods that exist in ID’s coffers without considering architecting new ones to elicit human understanding… or make stuff.
Here is my recipe for crafting a design method.
Take two parts Creativity (yes, I did say creativity. Contrary [...]
links for 2007-12-03
03Dec07
Mayang’s Free Texture Library
(tags: textures free design resources graphics)
Finals week at the ID
02Dec07If you’re wondering why there haven’t been any posts in a while, it’s because it’s finals time here at the Institute of Design. We’re all collectively scrambling to turn out final presentations, semester long workshop deliverables, and I’m still helping a few guys finish up loose ends for a class that I am assistant-teaching.
I [...]
