Lately, in the vein of a project I’m working on with Sri, I’ve been thinking a lot about analytics as it relates to personal growth and development.
Enterprises have used dashboards because, as the cliche goes, knowledge and information is power. And the credibility and confidence to make the right decisions. (ignore the fact [...]
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Micromanaging yourself
28Mar08Competition in schools
01Mar08At the risk of sounding socialist and anti-free market, I find this ad somewhat unsettling. I saw it on the subway on my way home last night and snapped this quick blurry picture.
Why does school always have to be about competition? Does the message suggest that competition is implied in our current market [...]
No Fullscreen on Mac Firefox?
27Feb08Does anyone else find it absurd that there’s no button to turn on full screen view in the MacOSX version of Firefox?
Get on the ball Mozilla.
For those about to rock
20Feb08We salute you.
Hang on tight, this year will see tons of great iPhone applications.
For aforementioned independent study project, we’re looking into using the iPhone developer’s kit as a quick and dirty way to prototype interfaces. I’ll let you know how it goes soon enough.
If anyone has some insight or experience into using [...]
Larry Lessig for Congress
20Feb08Larry Lessig
flickr: Peter Kaminski
It’s pretty rare that I use this blog as a place to help campaign for a political candidate. If I did that too much, you might run away and never come back. But this time, it’s worth it.
I’ve been staying away from the [...]
Tall Matt’s trip
11Feb08I know this doesn’t have much to do with design or the BOP, but that’s ok.
This post is a bit of an homage to my friend Matt, who I worked with in the Marketing department @ Cerner.
Matt decided he’d quit work and travel around the world for an entire year, to all 7 continents and [...]
I promise I won’t keep doing this… Throwing down AAPL/the iPod/iPhone/MBAir/etc as an innovation case study. Actually I’m not even using it as a case study this time.
I’m only responding to this comment over on the FastCompany blog, that suggests that Apple should start doing some B2B work by leveraging its credibility that it [...]
flickr: plentiful
Whenever an industry or business reduces service or somehow diminishes the experience by offering less to consumers in an effort to reduce cost, there are feelings of alienation and maybe even indignation.
And although most passengers on airlines are used to not having food during their trips, a product manager at Kraft thought it might [...]
Awesome Quicksilver plugins
06Feb08I’ve just started modding QS with plugins- in particular the Google Calendar quick add and Remember The Milk plugins are really useful. I highly recommend them. I even dedicated an entire blog entry to them.
Superbowl commercial redux
05Feb08My roommate thinks it odd that I would consider watching a national sporting event solely for the commercials. As I do not possess a television nor enjoy watching or following sports much anymore (actually, I’m not quite sure why I ever was), I do enjoy seeing what companies pay gazillion dollars for lots of [...]
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 [...]
How To Make Things “moddable”
23Jan08
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source: Tyler Hicks, NYTimes
Game developers have known for a long time now that a clever way to win consumers is by making their games “modifiable” — That is, adding custom levels in Quake, or creating scenarios in strategy games like Civilization.
As designers/innovators, we all know it’s particularly insightful to observe extreme/lead users and [...]
According to Gary Hamel (whose book I have yet to finish reading), you can teach an old dog new tricks. His assertion that corporate leaders invest very little on training of innovation methods may well be true: even truer might be that corporate expenditure on innovation might be wasted in bizarre ways. [...]
I was looking for a Firefox search engine plugin today for Google’s “I’m feeling lucky”. Why? Because I am militant about saving time, I search for stuff constantly, and I think it’s easier to type in “Illinois DMV” into a search bar and I’m pretty sure I know what the first hit is going to [...]
