At design school, I get surveys all the time. I do some of them. Actually, I do a fair number of them if they are for a class or to help the school improve in some way. Surveys are a easy way to get quick quantitative information from a large sample size [...]
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The ultimate killer widget
17Mar08What’s the deal? Everyone’s all hype about widgets lately.
While showering, I took a second to dream about what the ultimate killer widget would be if designed for yours truly.
First of all, none of this web app widget stuff. I already have enough tabs open in my firefox, thank you. I’d much rather [...]
I’m not sure how I feel about gated (or exclusive) social network communities yet. I’ve recently received an unsolicited request to join. It sort of feels like a cult.
Anyway, the request got me starting to think about these types of communities, where people self segregate themselves. I had read about them [...]
When I went to China last summer, I met a lot of [mostly businessmen] who had dual sim card phones.
In the late 90’s I remember clearly a device released that fit over your phone jack or connected to your phone and automatically dialed internationally using the cheapest provider for the call. (Nowadays, [...]
Why don’t you believe in “Deleting” an email and going to the next one? Why launch users back to the Inbox? Why can I archive and go to the next message, but not DELETE and go to the next message?
I realize it “looks” the same, but there’s some psychological neurosis some of us [...]
GreenDimes and Catalog Choice
04Nov07Wow, I don’t know why I am slow to find this one, but this is huge for me.
I vehemently detest junk mail. I hate seeing it, smelling it, and pulling it out of my mailbox. I hate the physical act of spending brain cycles triaging mail desperately trying to separate the signal from [...]
A vision for a convergent alarm clock Originally uploaded by quami77.
Dearest Consumer Electronics Manufacturers, I know you, collectively, have a hard time playing in the same sandbox, but I beg of you, please, please solve [...]
With the advent of low cost video chat, faster bandwith and connectivity, and now
haptics on the horizon , I wonder how long it will be until retailers don’t need to travel to manufacturers to “experience” different choices in materials.
I know some meetings still might require face-to-face, real time ineraction, but how much of this [...]
Whether it be the uber-complex “Chinese menu” of health care information technology solutions for hospitals to choose from, or 31 flavors (that come in “rich”, lowfat, fat free frozen yogurt… which really makes 93 flavors :P), or a phone that has a built in still camera, video camera, keyboard, MP3 player, wireless internet, cigar lighter, [...]
I thought of this while I was thinking of ways to advertise KC GMATprep, a little side undertaking a friend and I have been working on lately… We were making some ads to put up in coffeshops.. and I thought to myself, if I saw this ad somewhere, would I actually email the person unless [...]
